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If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.

Marie Kondo

Putting your house in order is the magic that creates a vibrant and happy life.
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Creation Happiness Home Life Magic Order
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.
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Care Cherish Forget Limitation Myself True
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage Yourself
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
Activity clutter comes from the things we do that take up precious time and sap our energy but don’t make a meaningful difference to our personal, professional, or even company’s mission.
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Activity Clutter Company Difference Energy Meaning Mission Personal Precious Professional Time
Caring for your possessions is the best way to motivate them to support you, their owner.
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Best Care Motivational Possession Way Yourself
But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.
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Attachment Fear Future Past Reason
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
Your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put things in order means to put your past in order, too.
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Hold Live Order Past Weight Yourself
In essence, tidying ought to be the act of restoring balance among people, their possessions, and the house they live in.
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Act Balance Essence Home Live People Possession Restore
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.
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Awareness Important Lifestyle Person Perspective Segregation
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
From the moment you start tidying, you will be compelled to reset your life. As a result, your life will start to change.
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Change Life Moments Reset Start Yourself
It’s far more important to adorn your home with the things you love than to keep it so bare it lacks anything that brings you joy.
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Happiness Home Important Joy Yourself
Tidying orders and relaxes the mind.
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Mindset Order Relax
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
The ultimate secret of success is this: If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.
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Change Drama Mindset Secret Shot Ultimate Yourself
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order after.
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Cleaning Effort Elimination Method Order Result Right Space Time Yourself
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
The meaning of a photo lies in the excitement and joy you feel when taking it.
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Excitement Feeling Meaning Photo
I’m sure most of us have been scolded for not tidying up our rooms, but how many of our parents consciously taught us how to tidy as part of our upbringing?
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Childhood Cleaning Habit Ourselves Parents Room
Tidying is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to establish the lifestyle you want most once your house has been put in order.
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Destination Establishment Goal Order True

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