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Through the process of selecting only those things that inspire joy, you can identify precisely what you love and what you need.

Marie Kondo

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
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
Start with clothes, then move on to books, papers, komono (miscellany), and finally things with sentimental value.
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Book Clothes Emotion Paper Start Value
Everyone needs a sanctuary.
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Need One Liner Sanctuary
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
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
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever 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
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 live in this moment. Who you are now is more important than memories of your past. Be good to yourself.
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Goodness Important Live Memories Moments Past 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
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
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity
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
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
If you live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member.
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Definition Family Live Space Storage
Putting your house in order is the magic that creates a vibrant and happy life.
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Creation Happiness Home Life Magic Order
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
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
All you need to do is take the time to sit down and examine each item you own, decide whether you want to keep or discard it, and then choose where to put what you keep.
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Choice Decision Discard Need Time Yourself
The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.
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Design Essence Storage Yourself
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
Tidying is the act of confronting yourself.
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Act Yourself
Your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put things in order means to put your past in order, too.
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Hold Live Order Past Weight Yourself
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
Don’t forget that the god of tidying up is always on your side as long as you are committed to getting it done.
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Commitment Forget God Yourself
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself

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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