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Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo

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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
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Cherish Important Purpose Shame Wasted Yourself
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership 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
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
Clutter also adversely affects health. According to a study by scientists at UCLA, being surrounded by too many things increases cortisol levels, a primary stress hormone.
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Adversity Affect Clutter Health Hormone Level Primary Stress
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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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
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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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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Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
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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Now imagine yourself living in a space that contains only things that spark joy. Isn’t this the lifestyle you dream of?
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Dreams Happiness Imagination Lifestyle Space Yourself
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
The true purpose of a present is to be received.
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Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo

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Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo

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