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Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.

Marie Kondo

Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
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
Now imagine yourself living in a space that contains only things that spark joy. Isn’t this the lifestyle you dream of?
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Dreams Happiness Imagination Lifestyle Space 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
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
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
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
Your storage space is your private paradise, so personalize it to the fullest.
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Paradise Privacy Space Storage Yourself
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
When deciding how to spend your time, remember: Don’t trade an activity you’d love to pursue for a reward you don’t value.
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Activity Decision Pursue Remember Reward Time Value
There is no need to buy dividers or any other gadget. You can solve your storage problems with things you already have in the house. The most common item I use is an empty shoebox.
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Empty Home Minimalism Need Purchase 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
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
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
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

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