People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking. And that’s not easy!
📚Here are my insights from the book
" The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up "
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📚Here are my insights from the book
" The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up "
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1. It Starts and Ends with your Mindset
People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking. And that’s not easy!
"Remember: the KonMari Method I describe in this book is not a mere set of rules on how to sort, organize, and put things away...
People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking. And that’s not easy!
"Remember: the KonMari Method I describe in this book is not a mere set of rules on how to sort, organize, and put things away...
...It is a guide to acquiring the right mindset for creating order and becoming a tidy person."
2. Your Home is a Sacred Space
Everyone needs a sanctuary
By eliminating excess visual information that doesn’t inspire joy, you can make your space much more peaceful & comfortable
2. Your Home is a Sacred Space
Everyone needs a sanctuary
By eliminating excess visual information that doesn’t inspire joy, you can make your space much more peaceful & comfortable
3. Treat Decluttering as a One-Time Celebration
Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day. It's not the purpose of life!
Ultimate secret of success is this:
If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.
Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day. It's not the purpose of life!
Ultimate secret of success is this:
If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.
4. The KonMari Method Outline
There is two essential actions:
Discarding and deciding where to store things.
Discarding comes first. Why?
We need to exercise self-control and resist storing our belongings until we have finished identifying what we really want and need to keep
There is two essential actions:
Discarding and deciding where to store things.
Discarding comes first. Why?
We need to exercise self-control and resist storing our belongings until we have finished identifying what we really want and need to keep
5. It’s not Discarding — It’s Keeping what you Love
This is an important difference between the KonMari method and other decluttering methods.
She focuses on what you are keeping instead of what you are discarding.
So, it’s less about what’s leaving your life and...
This is an important difference between the KonMari method and other decluttering methods.
She focuses on what you are keeping instead of what you are discarding.
So, it’s less about what’s leaving your life and...
...more about what’s staying to bring you daily joy.
6. Next Comes Organizing
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
You must begin by discarding. Once you have done that, it’s easy to decide where things should go because...
6. Next Comes Organizing
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
You must begin by discarding. Once you have done that, it’s easy to decide where things should go because...
...your possessions will have been reduced to a third or even a quarter of what you started out with.
"I have only two rules: store all items of the same type in the same place and don’t scatter storage space."
"I have only two rules: store all items of the same type in the same place and don’t scatter storage space."
7. Transform Your Home to Transform Your Life
Reorganizing your home can lead to a change in your lifestyle and perspective.
It’s a very strange phenomenon, but when we reduce what we own and essentially ‘detox’ our house, it has a detox effect on our bodies as well.
Reorganizing your home can lead to a change in your lifestyle and perspective.
It’s a very strange phenomenon, but when we reduce what we own and essentially ‘detox’ our house, it has a detox effect on our bodies as well.
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