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To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn’t tidy.

Marie Kondo

No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
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Excitement Important Live Past Wonderful
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
Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself.
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Care Goodness Leadership Yourself
It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.
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Decoration Furniture Home Life Order
Even if we remain unaware of it, our belongings really work hard for us, carrying out their respective roles each day to support our lives.
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Aware Carry Hard Work Live Ourselves Remain Respective Role Support
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
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
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
All you need to do is take the time to sit down and examine each item you own, decide whether you want to keep or discard it, and then choose where to put what you keep.
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Choice Decision Discard Need Time Yourself
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
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
I’m sure most of us have been scolded for not tidying up our rooms, but how many of our parents consciously taught us how to tidy as part of our upbringing?
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Childhood Cleaning Habit Ourselves Parents Room
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
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
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
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

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