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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.

Marie Kondo

Although we can get to know ourselves better by sitting down and analyzing our characteristics or by listening to others’ perspectives on us, I believe that tidying is the best way.
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Analyze Better Character Myself Perspective Way
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
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
A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.
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Awareness Important Lifestyle Person Perspective Segregation
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
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
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
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
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
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
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
I believe that tidying is a celebration, a special send-off for those things that will be departing from the house, and therefore I dress accordingly.
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Believe Celebration Home Myself
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself

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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