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

Marie Kondo

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
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
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
Being surrounded by things that bring joy makes you happy
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Happiness Joy Surround Yourself
Tidying is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to establish the lifestyle you want most once your house has been put in order.
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Destination Establishment Goal Order True
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
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
One reason so many of us never succeed at tidying is because we have too much stuff.
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Cleaning Reason Success
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
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
Activity clutter comes from the things we do that take up precious time and sap our energy but don’t make a meaningful difference to our personal, professional, or even company’s mission.
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Activity Clutter Company Difference Energy Meaning Mission Personal Precious Professional Time
Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.
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Environment Feeling Happiness Kind 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
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
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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Creation Feeling Home Love Place Possession Reduce Select
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure

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

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