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

Marie Kondo

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
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
Even if we remain unaware of it, our belongings really work hard for us, carrying out their respective roles each day to support our lives.
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Aware Carry Hard Work Live Ourselves Remain Respective Role Support
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.
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Care Clothes Home Intention Welcome
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
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
If you have reduced your possessions but feel no joy at home, try gathering selected items that you really love in one spot to create your own special space.
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Creation Feeling Home Love Place Possession Reduce Select
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
Discard first, store later.
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Discard Store Throw
All you need to do is take the time to sit down and examine each item you own, decide whether you want to keep or discard it, and then choose where to put what you keep.
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Choice Decision Discard Need Time Yourself
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
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage Yourself
Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
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Effort Need Reduce Storage

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