The successful Japanese consultant, who has made her storage method a fruitful business for ten years, seems to have operated a small revolution by prioritizing the fact of “spending time with [s] es children”.
by Marie Pouzadoux
There is a time for everything, including to learn how to let go. To everyone’s surprise, this is what seems to arrive at the Popess of the Marie Kondo storage, which has become for ten years a reference in the art of organization and sorting by the void.
With his book The magic of storage, released in 2011 in Japan and translated in 2014, which sold more than 8 million copies, the consultant popularized the Japanese concept of Kurashi (way of organizing her Daily) internationally and imposed its method – the “Konmari method”, which is based on the principle according to which a minimalist, well -stored and harmonious interior allows you to find the way towards its inner happiness (in the literal sense) – as a reference in the field of well-being and personal development.
A resounding success fueled by the declination of its precepts in two Netflix reality TV, staging it to the rescue of customers in order to “put order in their house and joy in their lives” (“the Art of storage with Marie Kondo “, 2019, and” The spark of happiness with Marie Kondo “, 2021). The Japanese girl invited individuals to ask herself a question that has become famous before deciding on the fate of a garment or a trinket: “Does this object bring you joy?”. Any negative answer then led to a radical decision.
But things have changed for Marie Kondo. As reported by Washington Post , the 38 -year -old consultant, for the first time said that having a perfectly stored interior is nothing realistic and would not be the only one way to happiness. “My house is in disorder, but at this stage of my life, it is the right way to manage my time,” she said recently during a webinar intended for the media and a tea ceremony virtual.
“Sometimes I feel exhausted or overwhelmed by anxiety”
This change of foot is explained by a turning point in the personal life of Marie Kondo: in recent years the businesswoman has married and had three children, the last of whom was born in 2021. What complicate Obviously the management of his daily life and disturb a perfectly tidy interior where nothing is supposed to exceed.
“Until now, I was a storage professional, and I was doing my best to make my house always tidy (…) Sometimes I fill my schedule so tight that I feel Exharted or submerged by anxiety, “she says.
And to promise that she abandoned this injunction to perfection: “I have somehow gave up that, in a good sense for me. Now, I understand that what is important for me is to enjoy spending time with my children at home. “
The author of bestsellers therefore preaches for a new less psychorigid approach and more realistic in her a new book, entitled Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life (“Le Kurashi de Marie Kondo at home: how to organize your space and reach your ideal life “), released in November 2022 in the United States and not yet translated into French.
As the Washington Post notes, the consultant offers her readers to create a new daily routine, adapted to their own pace of life, and to stick to it for ten days, by helping each to identify creative activities or relaxing that can help them improve their daily joy. The fact remains that among her rituals aimed at relaxing, Marie Kondo cleans her handbag every night. A relative letting go, therefore, and which falls timely to sell paper.