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Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.

Marie Kondo

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
I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.
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Category Limitation Recommend Time
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
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
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
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love 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
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind Yourself
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
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
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
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
Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
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Heart Life Lifestyle Talk Yourself
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
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
There is no need to buy dividers or any other gadget. You can solve your storage problems with things you already have in the house. The most common item I use is an empty shoebox.
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Empty Home Minimalism Need Purchase Yourself

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