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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.

Marie Kondo

Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
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Heart Life Lifestyle Talk Yourself
If you live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member.
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Definition Family Live Space Storage
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
Don’t forget that the god of tidying up is always on your side as long as you are committed to getting it done.
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Commitment Forget God Yourself
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn’t tidy.
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Best Dispose Family Quiet Way Work
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
In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.
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Contact Nature Ourselves Reality Word
Our parents demanded that we clean up our rooms, but they too, had never been trained in how to do that. When it comes to tidying, we are all self-taught.
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Cleaning Demand Ourselves Parents Teaching Training
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
The meaning of a photo lies in the excitement and joy you feel when taking it.
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Excitement Feeling Meaning Photo
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
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
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
Through the process of selecting only those things that inspire joy, you can identify precisely what you love and what you need.
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Happiness Identify Need Process Selection Yourself
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
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership 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
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.
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Decoration Furniture Home Life Order

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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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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