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The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.

Marie Kondo

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
If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.
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Care Clothes Home Intention Welcome
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality 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
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
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
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
Clutter also adversely affects health. According to a study by scientists at UCLA, being surrounded by too many things increases cortisol levels, a primary stress hormone.
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Adversity Affect Clutter Health Hormone Level Primary Stress
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
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
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
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage Yourself
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure

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