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Putting your house in order is the magic that creates a vibrant and happy life.

Marie Kondo

Caring for your possessions is the best way to motivate them to support you, their owner.
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Best Care Motivational Possession Way Yourself
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
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
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 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
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage 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
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
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
The true purpose of a present is to be received.
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Present Purpose True
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
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
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
Clutter has only two possible causes: too much effort is required to put things away or it is unclear where things belong.
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Clear Effort Possible Reason
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space 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
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
Just because you dispose of something does not mean you give up past experiences or your identity.
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Dispose Experience Identity Past
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
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
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
The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.
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Complete Drama Exception Live
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
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
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

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