Possessions that have a place where they belong and to which they are returned each day for a rest are more vibrant.

The Art of Discarding by Nagisa Tatsumi (Takarajimasha, Inc.),

success depends on experiencing tangible results immediately. 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 ever after.

Clutter has only two possible causes: too much effort is required to put things away or it is unclear where things belong.

Such people, however, would never pick up this book. You, on the other hand, have been led by fate to read it, and that means you probably have a strong desire to change your current situation, to reset your life, to improve your lifestyle, to gain happiness, to shine. For this very reason, I can guarantee that you will be able to put your house in

Because what they learned at the seminars did not stick. I am not saying this as a criticism, but merely to point out why it isn’t worth keeping materials from past seminars. If the content is not put into practice, such courses are meaningless. A seminar’s value begins the moment we start attending, and the key to extracting the full value is

These items play an important part in supporting your lifestyle and therefore they, too, deserve to be handled one by one and sorted properly.

Are you happy wearing clothes that don’t give you pleasure? Do you feel joy when surrounded by piles of unread books that don’t touch your heart? Do you think that owning accessories you know you’ll never use will ever bring you happiness?

We need to exercise self-control and resist storing our belongings until we have finished identifying what we really want and need to keep.