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A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.

Marie Kondo

The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
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
I begin my course with these words: Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day.
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Beginning Course Day Myself
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
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
Never, ever tie up your stockings. Never, ever ball up your socks. ―Marie Kondo
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Clothes Tying Yourself
We may think that we have stored things to suit our behavior, but usually we have unconsciously adjusted our actions to match where things are stored.
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Action Behavior Store Thinking Unconscious
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
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
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
Putting your house in order is the magic that creates a vibrant and happy life.
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Creation Happiness Home Life Magic Order
From the moment you start tidying, you will be compelled to reset your life. As a result, your life will start to change.
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Change Life Moments Reset Start Yourself
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
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

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