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Do not underestimate the value of each small victory.

The world turns. Life rolls on. Don’t rely on anything in the shape of a circle to serve as a landmark.

Beyond a certain point, every cluttered room looks the same.

You would never guess how many things a person is afraid of.

When you’re wearing a hat, your other hats don’t look so important.

When you are looking for one thing, you may find a hundred things.

Find five pieces of clutter in the color green.

When you take a gradual appraoch, it is surprising how much clutter you can take away before anyone notices.

Even the best kinds of change can feel confusing.

Don’t rely on others’ reactions to determine the meaning of what’s going on.

If you expect everything you see to follow along well-known patterns that you have seen before, you will be disappointed around the next corner.

Things are easier to see if you find them in a familiar order or arrangement.

You can’t hear life calling if you have earphones in all the time.

At some point, the appearance of chaos goes away with the removal of one more item.

Take small actions that show that you are listening, and you will hear more.

The journey from “It could never happen” to “It has always been this way” is only a few steps.

Visibility usually makes a problem easier to solve, but not always. There are also problems that you can solve only when you are not looking at them.

Changes benign or favorable can feel awful in the moment when they catch you by surprise.

The things you own but don’t use don’t look as good as you might imagine. There are few things more attractive than a person in action.