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As for you, pour your time and passion into what brings you the most joy, your mission in life.

Marie Kondo

We amass material things for the same reason that we eat—to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress.
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Material Reason Satisfaction Stress
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
People who can’t stay tidy can be categorized into just three types: ‘the can’t throw it away type’, ‘the can’t put it back type’, and ‘the first-two-combined’ type.
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Category People Type
If you want to meet a beautiful home that is just right for you, take good care of the one you live in now.
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Beautiful Care Goodness Home Live Right
Everyone needs a sanctuary.
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Need One Liner Sanctuary
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
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Excitement Important Live Past Wonderful
I begin my course with these words: Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day.
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Beginning Course Day Myself
When people revert to clutter no matter how much they tidy, it is not their room or their belongings but their way of thinking that is at fault.
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Mindset People Room Thinking
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
We may think that we have stored things to suit our behavior, but usually we have unconsciously adjusted our actions to match where things are stored.
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Action Behavior Store Thinking Unconscious
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Cherish Important Purpose Shame Wasted Yourself

As for you, pour your time and passion into what brings you the most joy, your mission in life.

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