Headline November 23, 2018/ '' ' ORGANIZING WORLD ORBITING ' ''

'' ' ORGANIZING WORLD ORBITING ' ''

''QUIET PLEASE - quiet, please! : Look around you. The state of the entire world is right before you. Nothing more can ever be said.

The Lord Almighty God, in his infinite mercy and wisdom picks extraordinary ways to accomplish his designs.

You all....... the heroic students of the Lord's great world, all so anointed and picked by him, to help change the world for the better, so get preparing for Global Elections and register on: wssciw.blogspot.com

The world will give you no voice, no respect, no power, no influence  if you don't go through the  electoral process and vote your leaders into higher and highest offices.''

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For Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, all items kept or disposed of would be thanked - even socks, before being folded, must be congratulated for their hard work.

But only things which are used or ''spark joy'' [tokimeku] are allowed to stay : Be it clothes or significant others.

''I believe [the method] applies to all aspects of real life,'' Kondo said, ''because by cleaning your physical space, you're honing your sensitivity in understanding your situation.

This also applies to human relationships.

''A lot of my clients have really transformed the way they relate to their friends - and one of my clients broke up with a partner who wasn't quite working out.''

Today married and with a 1-year old daughter, the idea of casting off people who fail to inspire joy perhaps has less appeal than when she was 19 and just started making money tidying clients, That was while studying at Tokyo Woman's Christian University.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - began as a stop gap. With so many customers needing her expertise, Kondo thought she could help them go it alone with a simple guidebook.

''My method was pretty much established by the time I began writing the books,'' she said. ''You could say it was 12 year in the making.'' Writing the book took just three months.

''What happened was, I wen to a seminar to learn book writing. And at the end of the seminar there was a presentation where you needed to pitch an idea for a book. There were about eight editors present. In fact, I won the competition, so that garnered a lot of interest.''

When the book was launched in Japan, it was the right time - but for the wrong reasons. It was during the aftermath of the devastating nuclear accident and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

The book beat all expectations. According to Kondo's editor, a profitable, popular book on the art of tidying up might sell 300,000 copies. When it sold more than 1 million in Japan, she was ''very surprised''. People, it seemed, were looking to find order amid the chaos.

In the US, the English-language translation was published in 2014. It was lost in obscurity until a journalist from The New York Times wrote how she used the book's methods to clean her apartment.

Almost overnight, Kondo crossed the Pacific. Other translations followed, including Czech, Romanian, Korean and Vietnamese. And a Chinese language edition was published recently.

''In Taiwan there has been really great feedback and my book has been doing really well,'' Kondo said. ''But when it comes to mainland China, relative to the population, I think it it could be doing much better.''

In Japan, the business of training professional konMari consultants began in 2014 and is well established. A rollout in the US is now underway.

Becoming a consultant involves an intensive three-month course of seminars. That is followed ''by an actual monitored test where you go a client home and write a report based on the experience. Then there will be a final certification exam,'' Kondo said.

The price of the course in Japan is 300,000 yen [$3,000}. And even with a 30 percent failure rate, it has proved popular. Currently around 120 Konmari consultants work in the country.

Kondo anticipates that over the next year or so, courses will be extended to other English-speaking countries where her book sales have been high.

The next step is technology. A recently released KonMari app helps user check off what they have tidied, then share it with the global community. ''Sort of a guideline to keep you on track,'' she explained.

''I am very much inspired by Uber and Airbnb,'' Kondo said, referring to the ride sharing giant and homestay network.

''I've always been inspired by people engaged in startups and new ventures because they're launching what inspires joy for them, so their energy always inspire me.''

With respectful dedication to the Students, Professors and Teachers of Japan and then the world.

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