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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.

Marie Kondo

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
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 joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
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
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
When people revert to clutter no matter how much they tidy, it is not their room or their belongings but their way of thinking that is at fault.
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Mindset People Room Thinking
Tidying orders and relaxes the mind.
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Mindset Order Relax
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
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
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
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
It’s far more important to adorn your home with the things you love than to keep it so bare it lacks anything that brings you joy.
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Happiness Home Important Joy Yourself
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success

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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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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