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Just because you dispose of something does not mean you give up past experiences or your identity.

Marie Kondo

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
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
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
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
Start with clothes, then move on to books, papers, komono (miscellany), and finally things with sentimental value.
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Book Clothes Emotion Paper Start Value
The true purpose of a present is to be received.
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Present Purpose True
Tidying orders and relaxes the mind.
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Mindset Order Relax
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
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
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
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
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 can’t stay tidy can be categorized into just three types: ‘the can’t throw it away type’, ‘the can’t put it back type’, and ‘the first-two-combined’ type.
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Category People Type
Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.
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Care Cherish Forget Limitation Myself True
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

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