Marie Kondō’s Tidy Success Strategy for Entrepreneurs (Spark Joy Immediately)
Tidy Your Life, Transform Your Business with the Japanese Art of Decluttering — KonMari Style
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11 min readJan 31, 2019
“The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.” ― Marie Kondō
Marie Kondō recently released her Netflix show, a massive success based on her bestselling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
What if entrepreneurs could apply the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing as taught by Kondo to business in what she calls the KonMari principles?
Often, conventional wisdom keeps our lives, startups, and workplaces bloated with too much stuff and nothing to do but shuffle paper.
Have you ever felt like this?
- Busy, but not productive.
- Caught in the busy-ness of business, instead of enjoying the product of productivity.
- Working hard on things that don’t work out.
According to Gallup and cited by Harvard, only 13% of people are engaged in their work. We don’t just have a crisis at work…
