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When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.

Marie Kondo

If you want to meet a beautiful home that is just right for you, take good care of the one you live in now.
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Beautiful Care Goodness Home Live Right
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Cherish Important Purpose Shame Wasted Yourself
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning People
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
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
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
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
Reducing the amount of stuff in our space also reduces the amount of dust, and we actually clean more often.
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Cleaning Reduce Space
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
There is no need to buy dividers or any other gadget. You can solve your storage problems with things you already have in the house. The most common item I use is an empty shoebox.
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Empty Home Minimalism Need Purchase Yourself
I have yet to see a house that lacked sufficient storage. The real problem is that we have far more than we need or want.
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Home Need Problem Reality Storage
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
Even if we remain unaware of it, our belongings really work hard for us, carrying out their respective roles each day to support our lives.
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Aware Carry Hard Work Live Ourselves Remain Respective Role Support
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

When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.

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