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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

The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage Yourself
Your storage space is your private paradise, so personalize it to the fullest.
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Paradise Privacy Space Storage Yourself
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
Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
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Effort Need Reduce Storage
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
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
Now imagine yourself living in a space that contains only things that spark joy. Isn’t this the lifestyle you dream of?
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Dreams Happiness Imagination Lifestyle Space Yourself
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
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
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
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
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
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

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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