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

Marie Kondo

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
The ultimate secret of success is this: If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.
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Change Drama Mindset Secret Shot Ultimate 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
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
Tidying is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to establish the lifestyle you want most once your house has been put in order.
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Destination Establishment Goal Order True
A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.
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Awareness Important Lifestyle Person Perspective Segregation
We live in this moment. Who you are now is more important than memories of your past. Be good to yourself.
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Goodness Important Live Memories Moments Past Yourself
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
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
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
As for you, pour your time and passion into what brings you the most joy, your mission in life.
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Happiness Life Mission Passion Time 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
But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.
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Attachment Fear Future Past Reason
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
Although we can get to know ourselves better by sitting down and analyzing our characteristics or by listening to others’ perspectives on us, I believe that tidying is the best way.
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Analyze Better Character Myself Perspective Way
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

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