![]() ![]() Tidying by category and following the categories in an order of easiest to hardest. Choose a realistic timeframe of addressing the whole home so that it’s a one time ‘event’ over as short a time as possible.Ĭreating a vision for your ideal living environment. These are the guidelines for steps to follow:Ĭommitting yourself to tidying up. Respect - respect your time by storing items that lets you see, retrieve and return them easily respect your space by assigning a place to every item you’re keeping respect your possessions by storing items to keep them safe, intact and useful for longer. Gratitude - practicing gratitude when letting items go. This helps you to reevaluate which items still deserve a place in your current and future envisioned life. Along with its literal meaning, joy in this context is also a metaphor for acknowledging everything that adds meaning, fulfillment, support and enjoyment to your life. Personal fulfillment - approaching decision making over your possessions through a filter by asking yourself if an item sparks joy. If you tidy room by room you’ll never see the volume of similar items you own. This allows you to see the volume you own per category that could be dispersed over different rooms in the house, such as the number of note books or scissors. ![]() There are four principal pillars that makes this approach effective:Įfficiency - tidying by category (not by location), by gathering all items within a category to joy check, choosing what stays and leaves one category at a time, before moving on to the next category. ![]() This gives you the clarity you need to face those loose ends so that you can enjoy a home that’s free from disorder and clutter that drains your time, energy and happiness. Filtering your declutter decisions through this lens of joy, reconnects you with your inner self, discovering what’s really important to you, and choosing to only live among items you truly cherish. Marie Kondo created a simple and effective tidying up technique that embodies a philosophy centered around cultivating a lifestyle that encourages the right mindset for choosing a living environment that brings you joy.Īs a subtle metaphor, ‘Does it spark joy?’ (also referred to as joy checking), addresses the loose ends in your life that often results in clutter or disorder at home: over owning, delayed decisions, forgotten and outgrown pursuits, to name a few. “Does it spark joy? If it does, keep it, if it doesn’t, let it go.” This is the phrase from Marie’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, that caught the attention of the world and inspired millions to tidy up and evaluate how they fill the spaces in their homes. ![]()
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