Chapter 3: Finish Discarding First By Marie Kozo
Chapter 3:
Finish discarding first
Marie Kondo has followed a very practical and step by step approach towards organizing and balancing the surrounding. After crafting the ground to make the reader realize the real notion of decluttering, she has presented a step by step approach to practice tidying and decluttering. She has not jumped directly into the widespread notions and has presented her ideas in the most practical way, which can be easily applied at household level.
She has presented the idea that instead of wasting the energies in keeping the things at their proper place and finding a proper place for everything, it is wiser to apply reverse engineering. She believes to finish off with the discarding activity. This will give multiple …show more content…
In our busy and hectic routines, we sometimes ignore the in depth analysis. We just carry on with the activity, without knowing the eventual reason for doing it. Same has been the case for tidying up. We just say that we are up to tidying up, but we do not eventually know that what are the hidden aims and motives to be achieved through this activity. Sometimes we start tidying up under the peer pressures, sometimes it comes out to be a short term need, but it cannot be nurtured to its highest level unless we possess an internal motivation and drive for tidying …show more content…
Now decluttering is not just about throwing the things away in trash, it is about the whole set of activities, a step by step approach and the eventual execution of plans. Decluttering starts with having a bird’s eye view on all the items you possess. After that you have to decide the different categories. One category will be that of the items which you will keep and the other one will be that of the items which you will throw away in trash or donate. This decision is not that simple. While discarding you may come across man hurdles and problems, out of which nostalgic attachments are the most frequent ones. You may feel an attachment of the item with some past memory, as a result of which the decluttering activity cannot produce the real results. This is true in case of some photo albums or some gifts which remind you of some past relationship.
When you get along such a situation it is advisable to think on the practical grounds and try to get away with the nostalgic feeling by masking it with the satisfaction which you will achieve after having a tidy and clutter free
Finish discarding first
Marie Kondo has followed a very practical and step by step approach towards organizing and balancing the surrounding. After crafting the ground to make the reader realize the real notion of decluttering, she has presented a step by step approach to practice tidying and decluttering. She has not jumped directly into the widespread notions and has presented her ideas in the most practical way, which can be easily applied at household level.
She has presented the idea that instead of wasting the energies in keeping the things at their proper place and finding a proper place for everything, it is wiser to apply reverse engineering. She believes to finish off with the discarding activity. This will give multiple …show more content…
In our busy and hectic routines, we sometimes ignore the in depth analysis. We just carry on with the activity, without knowing the eventual reason for doing it. Same has been the case for tidying up. We just say that we are up to tidying up, but we do not eventually know that what are the hidden aims and motives to be achieved through this activity. Sometimes we start tidying up under the peer pressures, sometimes it comes out to be a short term need, but it cannot be nurtured to its highest level unless we possess an internal motivation and drive for tidying …show more content…
Now decluttering is not just about throwing the things away in trash, it is about the whole set of activities, a step by step approach and the eventual execution of plans. Decluttering starts with having a bird’s eye view on all the items you possess. After that you have to decide the different categories. One category will be that of the items which you will keep and the other one will be that of the items which you will throw away in trash or donate. This decision is not that simple. While discarding you may come across man hurdles and problems, out of which nostalgic attachments are the most frequent ones. You may feel an attachment of the item with some past memory, as a result of which the decluttering activity cannot produce the real results. This is true in case of some photo albums or some gifts which remind you of some past relationship.
When you get along such a situation it is advisable to think on the practical grounds and try to get away with the nostalgic feeling by masking it with the satisfaction which you will achieve after having a tidy and clutter free