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Letting go is even more important than adding.

Marie Kondo

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
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
If you have reduced your possessions but feel no joy at home, try gathering selected items that you really love in one spot to create your own special space.
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Creation Feeling Home Love Place Possession Reduce Select
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
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
Discard first, store later.
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Discard Store Throw
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
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
The true purpose of a present is to be received.
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Present Purpose True
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
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space 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
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
Just because you dispose of something does not mean you give up past experiences or your identity.
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Dispose Experience Identity Past
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

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