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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.

Marie Kondo

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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Clear Effort Possible Reason
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
As for you, pour your time and passion into what brings you the most joy, your mission in life.
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Happiness Life Mission Passion Time 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
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.
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Life Live Question 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
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
The purpose of a letter is fulfilled the moment it is received.
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Fulfill Letter Moments Purpose Recieve
Discard first, store later.
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Discard Store Throw
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
Everyone needs a sanctuary.
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Need One Liner Sanctuary
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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Category People Type
We amass material things for the same reason that we eat—to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress.
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Material Reason Satisfaction Stress
In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.
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Contact Nature Ourselves Reality Word
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

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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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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