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Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.

Marie Kondo

Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.
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Choice Cleaning Examination Room State
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
Although we can get to know ourselves better by sitting down and analyzing our characteristics or by listening to others’ perspectives on us, I believe that tidying is the best way.
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Analyze Better Character Myself Perspective Way
I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.
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Category Limitation Recommend Time
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
The real tragedy is to live your entire life without anything that brings you joy and never even realize it.
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Happiness Life Reality Realize Tragedy
I believe that tidying is a celebration, a special send-off for those things that will be departing from the house, and therefore I dress accordingly.
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Believe Celebration Home Myself
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
Clutter also adversely affects health. According to a study by scientists at UCLA, being surrounded by too many things increases cortisol levels, a primary stress hormone.
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Adversity Affect Clutter Health Hormone Level Primary Stress
Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.
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Cleaning Reduce Space
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
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful

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