![]() Garbage bags of clothes and miscellaneous household items filled the curbsides. By that time, I finished more than half of the book - and surprisingly, it really did help me during the entire moving process. Then came the day where I was leaving for college. There were days where I just couldn’t read it. I wanted to cherish every last bit of it. It wasn’t because I was putting it off - I mean I did for a bit, but it was because I was moving down to Long Beach. I’m embarrassed to say, but it took me the whole summer to finally read the last words of this tiny but jammed-pack book. It was as if I knew that this book had the key to all my unanswered questions. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, but I remember a feeling of relief washing over me as I picked it from the shelf. Pacing down every aisle at Barnes and Nobles, I stumbled upon ‘ the life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing’ by Marie Kondo (man that’s a mouthful). ![]() This was right after I finished Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi, and I fell in love with Japanese culture. I got back into reading, and I was in search of some new self-help books (my favorite genre of books). Why did my apocalypse-looking room prevent me from focusing on my studies? Why was I so productive after tidying up?įast-forward a couple of years, and I got used to studying at coffee shops and in public spaces - like my depressing, life-sucking community college library. After every clean up, a wave of motivation hits me, allowing me to focus immensely on the task at hand. Here’s the craziest part - I’m the most productive after a quick decluttering of my room. For some weird reason, I have this urge to clean up the space around me - a wasteland of blank sheets of paper, cans of empty energy drinks, and mistreated film equipment scattered across the carpet floor. At the very least, you’d suspect that I’d be speedwriting page after page of notes, trying to cram every last bit of information about Andrew Jackson or Shay’s Rebellion. I’m sitting at my dimly lit desk, fidgeting about as I attempt to create a last minute study guide for my American History Class.
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