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We live in this moment. Who you are now is more important than memories of your past. Be good to yourself.

Marie Kondo

A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
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
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
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
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
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
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
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
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
Tidying orders and relaxes the mind.
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Mindset Order Relax
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.
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Cleaning Reduce Space
Warranties are only used once a year if at all. What point is there in carefully sorting and separating them when the odds that they will be needed are so low?
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Care Low Need Point Separate

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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