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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 live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member.
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Definition Family Live Space Storage
When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.
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Choice Cleaning Examination Room State
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
Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
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Heart Life Lifestyle Talk 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
Caring for your possessions is the best way to motivate them to support you, their owner.
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Best Care Motivational Possession Way Yourself
Your storage space is your private paradise, so personalize it to the fullest.
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Paradise Privacy Space Storage Yourself
Letting go is even more important than adding.
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Add Important Let Go One Liner Yourself
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
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.
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Category Limitation Recommend Time
If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order after.
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Cleaning Effort Elimination Method Order Result Right Space Time Yourself
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
The lives of those who tidy thoroughly and completely, in a single shot, are without exception dramatically altered.
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Complete Drama Exception Live
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum
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Art Happiness Museum Personal Room
Don’t you think it is unnatural for us to possess things that don’t bring us joy or things that we don’t really need?
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Happiness Joy Need Possession Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
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
Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.
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Cleaning Day Forever Yourself
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
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Book Collection Learning 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
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
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

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

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