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Now imagine yourself living in a space that contains only things that spark joy. Isn’t this the lifestyle you dream of?

Marie Kondo

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
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
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Cherish Important Purpose Shame Wasted Yourself
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
I have yet to see a house that lacked sufficient storage. The real problem is that we have far more than we need or want.
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Home Need Problem Reality Storage
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
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
Don’t you think it is unnatural for us to possess things that don’t bring us joy or things that we don’t really need?
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Happiness Joy Need Possession Thinking Yourself
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind 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
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
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
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task

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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