Tidying up KonMari style is a one-time, special event that requires consistent effort and prioritization. It’s a project. A series of steps that need to be executed in an efficient series in order to shift behaviors you may have had all of your life. So, the less glamorous or obvious first step is to PLAN your tidying event before digging too deep.

So now, we want to hear from you. Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life.

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Joy Checks:

• Karin loves staycations so she can indulge in her passion for the hotel room aesthetic. Here are some great hotel rooms and ways you can incorporate these ideas in your own bedroom.
  Hotel Room Ideas to Use in Your Bedroom: The Contemporist

• Kristyn is excited that the The Tidy Home Joy Journal is an Amazon #1 best seller across multiple categories! It’s beginning to arrive in the homes of early buyers and the reviews are amazing, 5 Stars!

You can get yours by joining The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• The question from listener Anne that prompted today’s show after listening to Episode 56: How 60 Hours of Tidying Lessons Changed One Single Mom's Life Forever

• The three factors that determine the length of time of your tidying event:

  • The size of your home
  • The volume of your clutter
  • The anticipated pace of your decision-making

• How a KonMari Consultant can help in this process as we discussed in Spark Joy Episode 49: Why Hire a KonMari Consultant?

• Factors that slow down, or speed up your tidying event

• How to make tidying a short-term priority in order to gain from the Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up!

• Confronting your calendar to get your priorities and values in order

• The suggested length of time for each tidying appointment, the length of time in between tidying appointments, and the length of time the entire process should take according to our experience and best practices

• The benefit of a little urgency in the process. As we discussed in Spark Joy Ep 68 | Behind the Scenes: Netflix's "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" with Tricia Fidler and Jane Grodem something like a reality show can help move the process into overdrive!

• How the 5 D’s: delegate, delete, defer, delay, or diminish, we learned about in Ep 16 | Stress Free Holiday Joy with Amanda Jefferson can help you plan your tidying event

• What contributes to KonMari Fatigue and how to overcome it

Gems:
"The average American home has over 300,000 items."
"It can take anywhere from 15 to 30+ hours, but not all at once!"
"Make it a priority for the short-term in order to make true change in the long-term."
"Plan your work and work your plan!"
"This will require you to temporarily delegate, delete, defer, delay, or diminish some of the priorities filling up your calendar."
"KonMari Fatigue can reduce focus and limit your best ability Joy Check items."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Are you terrified of the paper in your home?

Marie Kondo is known for her progressive stance on paper. As quoted from The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up :
“My basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away.”

We understand that this may be uncomfortable for most people and, as always, we aren’t here to insist that you live a paper free life. But we definitely believe you can live a much more joyful life with a lot less paper.

In this episode we discuss the Paper Category, which is the third category within the KonaMari Method.

If you're just getting started with KonMari or need a refresher, we recommend you head over to Episode 1: KonMari 101 prior to listening to this episode.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

Joy Checks:
Karin- I’m upgrading my medicine supply cabinet with some pretty new containers - A tidy home style upgrade!
Kristyn- I was featured on the ChooseFI podcast where I got to discuss my path to Financial Independence and its overlap with tidying.

• Here are a couple of upcoming Netflix series to look forward to:
  Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
  Playing with Fire

• News about the KonMari App

• Hear listener Sharon’s email question about the paper category, which inspired today’s show.

• Review our episode on the importance of tidying by category:
  Episode 9: Tidying by Location is a Fatal Mistake

• Learn about Delete, Delegate, Diminish, Defer:
  Episode 16: Stress Free Holiday Joy with Amanda Jefferson

• Find all the manuals you’ll ever need:
  Manuals Online

• Review our discussion on keeping paper and other clutter categories under control for the long-term: Episode 41: How to maintain a Tidy Home Post Konmari

• Learn about shredding services:
  Shredding Services at Staples
  Shredding Services at Office Depot
  Identity Theft Protection Stamps

• Kristyn's favorite paper storage solution:
  Locking File Chest

• Learn about scanning options:
  Cam Card
  Cam Scanner
  Artkive App
  Google Drive
  Evernote
  DropBox

• How to get off mailing lists:
  Catalog Choice
  DMA Choice
  Hear about DMA choice on: Episode 8: Make Bold Moves with The Traveling Organizer Holly Southerland
  Opt Out Prescreen
  PaperKarma App

Gems:
“My basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away.”

"Paper is really not that scary and completing the category has the potential to free up so much space in your mind and home."

"When thinking about the paper you have stored now, how often have you needed to get something out of your paper storage?"

"What necessary documents do you have that are available in another format?"

"Keep paper where you will use it."

"I have an amount of paper that I’ve deemed reasonable to the point where I can sift through it easily, so it doesn’t require a lot of micro-organizing and labels, and again, additional attention."

"My square footage is valuable and I don’t want to waste precious activity space on something that has a limited amount of joy like the paper I’m required to keep."

" We promise you’ll be amazed by how little paper you actually need in your life."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Before you continue, if you’re just starting your tidying journey, or in need of a refresher on how categories work in the KonMari Method, listen to Spark Joy Episode 1: KonMari 101 and Episode 9: Tidying by Location is a Fatal Mistake

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

Joy Checks:
Karin: The Serene Home was featured in Oprah.com!

Kristyn: For the Love of Tidy is tidying up its virtual home! New website launch (with special surprises) coming very soon.

• Komono Subcategories:

  • CDs, DVDs
  • Skin care products
  • Makeup and perfume
  • Valuables (passports, credit cards, etc.)
  • Electrical equipment and appliances
  • Household equipment (writing materials, sewing kits, linens)
  • Household supplies (medicine, detergent, tissues)
  • Linens
  • Kitchen items
  • Emergency supplies
  • Hobbies
  • Gifts
  • Seasonal items
  • Home decor/furniture

• Spark Joy listener Lisa submits a question about Komono and craft spaces

• We help you answer the tough questions:

  • What if I need this someday?
  • Can I keep this as a backup?
  • What if I need this in an emergency?

• The importance of grounding our miscellaneous item decisions in the vision of our ideal life and living environment

• We review how to handle the nuances Komono category with care (while keeping your sanity!). For example:

• Small items

• Mixed bins of items

• The "mess”

• Kid’s stuff

• Sentimental items (see Spark Joy Episode 55 for more on digitizing your sentimental items)

Gems:
"Miscellaneous items play a super important role in everyones life. They are sometimes the supporting character in everything that we do."

"It might be time to put a hobby in the past, as it may not be something you see as part of your vision moving forward."

"It's important to keep like items together to understand the extent of your active supplies and materials vs. materials you are just stockpiling."

"Unlike clothing books and paper, Komono category is so broad and everyone will have different subcategories in their miscellaneous."

"If everything is important, nothing is important."

"What in your home is in such abundance that it's not really feeling important, even though it is a 'must keep' or 'must have'?"

"Miscellaneous items often include things that lean more utility than joyful."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

If you are just starting out, or want a refresher on how categories work in the KonMari Method, listen to: Episode 1: KonMari 101 and: Episode 9: Tidying by Location is a Fatal Mistake These two episodes of the Spark Joy podcast will give you the background you need, in addition to reading Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up , to tackle the books category.

Books are special and cherished items for many people, but there’s no denying the fact that physical books can take up a lot of room. Plus, in many cases, once the book is read, the actual book is placed on a shelf and is never used or read again. How can you approach books in such a way that honors the contents, respects the value and importance of books but also enables you to surround yourself with only the things that spark joy?

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

Joy Checks:
Karin: I practiced KonMari gift giving for my 5th wedding anniversary! I got my husband a returnable gift, in case it doesn't bring him joy...and it's something that is designed to honor books, which totally bring him joy!

Kristyn: I was invited to The Jam TV morning show in Chicago to talk about the KonMari paper category.
Tips from For the Love of Tidy on How to Cut Down Paper

• Book Subcategories:
  -General Books
  -Practical Books
  -Visual Books
  -Religious Books
  -Sentimental Books

• How to sort books you have already read.

• How to sort books you haven't started or started, but haven't finished

• The challenges involved in letting go of books:
  -Our attachments to books
  -Our desire to honor the contents of books
  -Our attraction to the beauty of books as objects
  -Concerns about discarding them properly
  --Listen to Spark Joy Episode 21 on this issue: Book Review: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

• Options for disposing of books properly:
  -donations
  -selling
  -recycle

• Summer Brennan's blog post on the challenges of letting go of books: On the Heartbreaking Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

Gems:
“Do I really need to take all these books down from their shelves?”

“You should use subcategories to view each book in relationship to other similar books, but remember you are evaluating each book on its own merits.”

“The goal is not to overwhelm you with the piling part of KonMari…”

“Who are you keeping these books for?”

“It’s important to honor your books with joy, keep them visible, especially those that are being kept to read 'someday.'”

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

We’re so happy to celebrate the one year anniversary of Spark Joy! To thank our faithful listeners, we're also launching a special giveaway that will run through November 13, 2018.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Joy Checks: Spark Joy podcast has been downloaded over a quarter million times!

• The history of Spark Joy podcast

• Our big giveaway 12 lucky Spark Joy listeners have a chance to win a SIGNED copy of Marie Kondo's book Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up!

To enter visit http://www.sparkjoypodcast.com/itunes for instructions on how to leave us a star rating and written review. After you've submitted your review, send an email to contact@sparkjoypodcast.com with your screen name to be eligible to win.

• The difference between Marie Kondo's books: The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up and Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

• Five of our top reviews on iTunes

Contest runs from September 4 - November 13, 2018. Winners will be announced during our Best of 2018 show on November 27, 2018.

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

The KonMari Method is a practice that you can definitely apply to your home independently without the help of others. For those of you who were able to KonMari their space on their own based on the techniques that Marie Kondo outlines in The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, which was published in 2014, Congratulations!

That brings us to this: if it’s possible to tidy up on your own, why isn’t everyone already living clutter free life of joy?

In this episode, we discuss hiring a KonMari Consultant. Why, and when, it might be the right choice for making a great success of your tidying festival.

If you're just getting started with KonMari or need a refresher, we recommend you head over to Episode 1: KonMari 101 prior to listening to this episode.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

Joy Checks:
Karin- My client this week had a baby today! This family had just moved from an apartment to a new home under an accelerated time frame. We KonMari’ed their things prior to the move and we worked this week on organization in their new home. And, today she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl!

Kristyn- I’m in the middle of a radio tour to be followed by presenting the KonMari method to 24 libraries throughout the Chicago area. For dates and times, check out the For The Love of Tidy events page: For The Love of Tidy Events Page

-Learn why getting and staying organized can be learned. Even if you have never been an organized person, KonMari is a life changing skill that can be learned and applied.

-Marie Kondo’s quote regarding learning how to tidy in Cosmopolitan Magazine Cleaning Celebrity Marie Kondo Thinks We Should Learn How to Tidy in School:
“One thing that I do think about is perhaps including tidying in education. Not necessarily that it should just be part of education, but it's really about creating a place where everybody knows how to clean. And so that could be in schools — or, of course, it could also be taught at home. But one thing is that in Japan, most schools have home economics as a class. And so to add more cleaning and more tidying and organizing tips into these home economic classes.”

-When it may be time to hire a KonMari consultant

• Analysis Paralysis
• Stutter Stepping
• Joy is just not clicking into place

-A refresher on how NOT tidying could be costing you money:
Spark Joy Podcast Ep 37 | The True Cost of Clutter

-Some of the things our clients say to us about how hard it is to reach out for help.

-The one thing we hear from almost all our clients. P.S. It’s never true!

-The misnomers clients hold onto that hold them back from taking the step toward hiring a KonMari Consultant.

-The benefits of hiring a KonMari Consultant:

• Accountability
• Physical and emotional support
• Project and time management
• Customized guidance and tools
• Real time, objective feedback
• Resources
• Expertise and experience that extends beyond the realm of organization

-The different types of services available from a KonMari consultant:

• Initial, free of charge phone consults
• In person consultations:
  • Individual sessions
  • Consulting packages
• Virtual consulting
• Workshops and presentations

-Here’s Kristyn’s Services page:
For The Love of Tidy Services

-Here’s Karin’s Services page:
The Serene Home Services Page

-How to find a consultant in your area:
KonMari Certified Consultants

Gems:
“I actually am a firm believer that it's just about whether you do or don't know the ways that you can declutter. It's not genetic.”

"There’s a societal norm that assumes we should all be able to keep our homes tidy-that it's just part of being an adult."

"Why isn’t everyone already living a clutter free life of joy?

"The good news is there are tons of information out there to help you change your story."

“Isn’t this the messy home you have ever seen?”

“I know I should be able to do this myself, but I have accepted that I just can’t.”

"If you’ve gathered information about KonMari from any and everywhere and you’re still looking for the best way for you to finish this journey once and for all, consider reaching out to a certified KonMari Consultant."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Have you ever considered what it would be like to travel the country in an Airstream, living an RV life of joy?

Today’s guest is Brenda Massei. Brenda is a fellow certified KonMari Consultant who has been blogging since 2010 about her family’s Airstream living adventures across Illinois, Tennessee and, Wisconsin. She currently lives in Southeast Wisconsin surrounded by cornfields and soybeans and launched her KonMari business, Zen Tidy, in 2017.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• The moment Brenda decided to sell her home and start a long adventure with her family and how KonMari influenced that transition

• How Brenda was well prepared for this major lifestyle change because of her family's previous travel experiences

• How Brenda's love of national and state parks influenced the necessary items her family brought on the road

• The realities and challenges of RV living, especially with kids (hint: it's not always as joyful as it looks on Instagram)

• How Brenda's family embraces the lack of privacy in an RV by exploring the outdoors

• How Brenda cleans her RV and manages her children's toys and collectables

• Brenda's new "fixed" home Wisconsin that she built with her husband over 5-6 months

• The one thing that Brenda missed when she didn't have a traditional home

Brenda's favorite tidying tip: Get a library card.

What sparks joy for Brenda: Growing her own garden.

To connect with Brenda, visit www.zentidyhome.com and follow her on instagram at @zentidy.

Gems:

"The things you really love at home that provide new experiences for you, you don't need to bring any of that along because every day is a new experience."

"Definitely think necessity before you think anything else."

"If you can get through a day with a little bit less..why not try another."

"Just go for it...you can learn on the road."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

Special Guest: Brenda Massei.

Are you terrified of the paper in your home?

Marie Kondo is known for her progressive stance on paper. As quoted from The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up :
“My basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away.”

We understand that this may be uncomfortable for most people and, as always, we aren’t here to insist that you live a paper free life. But we definitely believe you can live a much more joyful life with a lot less paper.

In this episode we discuss the Paper Category, which is the third category within the KonaMari Method.

If you're just getting started with KonMari or need a refresher, we recommend you head over to Episode 1: KonMari 101 prior to listening to this episode.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.

While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

Joy Checks:
Karin- I’m upgrading my medicine supply cabinet with some pretty new containers - A tidy home style upgrade!
Kristyn- I was featured on the ChooseFI podcast where I got to discuss my path to Financial Independence and its overlap with tidying.

• Here are a couple of upcoming Netflix series to look forward to:
  Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
  Playing with Fire

• News about the KonMari App

• Hear listener Sharon’s email question about the paper category, which inspired today’s show.

• Review our episode on the importance of tidying by category:
  Episode 9: Tidying by Location is a Fatal Mistake

• Learn about Delete, Delegate, Diminish, Defer:
  Episode 16: Stress Free Holiday Joy with Amanda Jefferson

• Find all the manuals you’ll ever need:
  Manuals Online

• Review our discussion on keeping paper and other clutter categories under control for the long-term: Episode 41: How to maintain a Tidy Home Post Konmari

• Learn about shredding services:
  Shredding Services at Staples
  Shredding Services at Office Depot
  Identity Theft Protection Stamps

• Kristyn's favorite paper storage solution:
  Locking File Chest

• Learn about scanning options:
  Cam Card
  Cam Scanner
  Artkive App
  Google Drive
  Evernote
  DropBox

• How to get off mailing lists:
  Catalog Choice
  DMA Choice
  Hear about DMA choice on: Episode 8: Make Bold Moves with The Traveling Organizer Holly Southerland
  Opt Out Prescreen
  PaperKarma App

Gems:
“My basic principle for sorting papers is to throw them all away.”

"Paper is really not that scary and completing the category has the potential to free up so much space in your mind and home."

"When thinking about the paper you have stored now, how often have you needed to get something out of your paper storage?"

"What necessary documents do you have that are available in another format?"

"Keep paper where you will use it."

"I have an amount of paper that I’ve deemed reasonable to the point where I can sift through it easily, so it doesn’t require a lot of micro-organizing and labels, and again, additional attention."

"My square footage is valuable and I don’t want to waste precious activity space on something that has a limited amount of joy like the paper I’m required to keep."

" We promise you’ll be amazed by how little paper you actually need in your life."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

In this episode we'll explore the maintenance aspect of the tidying process and reassure you that permanently tidy home is not only a possibility, but certainly attainable with some hard work upfront.

Note: We recommend you listen to this episode if you're at the tail end or end of your KonMari tidying journey. We're providing these recommendations with the assumption that you’ve completed tidying across all categories. This is when the magic of maintaining the lifestyle truly shines!

If you're just getting started with KonMari or need a refresher, we recommend you head over to Episode 1: KonMari 101 prior to listening to this episode.

We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show. While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Joy Checks: Karin prepares for an upcoming long weekend in PA and Kristyn's parents enjoy visiting her new tidy apartment in Chicago.

• We answer five common questions associated with maintaining a tidy lifestyle:

1. My KonMari event is complete. What now?
   Ref: Episode 5: The KonMari Lifestyle

2. What should you do when your home feels cluttered all of a sudden and you feel like you’ve relapsed?
   Ref: Episode 39: Closet Joy Part II: Build Your Capsule Wardrobe

3. How do I handle items I come across that, over time, seem to be losing their joy value?

4. What do you do when things are crossing the threshold of your home and they don’t have a designated place rest?
   Ref: Episide 31: Shopaholic No More

5. How often should I joy check?

• We conclude this episode with five tips that will help you get back to KonMari basics:

1. Recall and reconsider the vision of your ideal life and express appreciation for items that no longer serve your vision and send them on to their next life.

2. Reset your home to zero by setting everything back into place and make adjustments as needed

3. Consider whether the items you love and use are stored in their best permanent home

4. Ensure your shopping decision making criteria isn’t conflicting with your ability to handle any influx of new clutter

5. Joy check as needed or desired based on the natural life cycle of items in your home

Gems:

"Celebrate and appreciate the joy that surrounds you and the vision of your ideal lifestyle."

"We hope that post-konmari, you're able to happily allow family and friends to enjoy each other and create happy memories.

"The reality is, things in your home will get out of order KonMari or no KonMari."

"Rebound is the state where things without a designated storage place begin to crowd your home all over again."

"Establish a pattern of expressing appreciation as you finish using or wearing an item."

"KonMari is a method or approach or mental model that you can always fall back on in times of transition."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home

You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy

In this episode, we discuss how we discovered KonMari, how we became KonMari Consultants and what it’s like to have a KonMari consulting business.

Now, we want to hear from you. Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show. While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.

In this episode, you’ll enjoy:

• Joy checks!
  Kristyn sold her starter condo and rental property in Virginia and is now completely settled as a Chicagoan. Karin loves Springtime in New York City!

• How Karin and Kristyn tidied their own homes and started down the path of certification

• More examples of KonMari fans becoming KonMari Consultants: Consultants Share the Moment KonMari Changed Their Lives

NOTE: This episode was published on April 17, 2018. Any of the information shared regarding training guidelines and procedues is subject to change as the program evolves.

On August 27, 2019, Spark Joy Podcast received this update from KonMari Media, Inc.:
"Starting this fall, due to Marie's very tight schedule, she is no longer available to take individual photos with each attendee."

• The Steps to becoming a consultant:

-Step 1: Read the Marie Kondo Books

-Step 2: Tidy Your Home
KonMari App

-Step 3: Attend a Seminar

-Step 4: Join the Community

-Step 5: Submit Tidying Reports

-Step 6: Complete the Exam

-Step 7: Apply for Certification

• What it’s like to meet Marie Kondo

• A day in the life of a KonMari Consultant

• The business considerations associated with being a consultant

• Why Clients Hire Consultants

• Tools to help prospective consultants and trainees: The Tidy Mastermind and an open letter to KonMari Consultant Trainees

• On the fence about becoming a consultant? Schedule a Joy Call with Kristyn to discuss your unique situation

Gems:

"Her Mission, which is Organizing the World!"

"All different walks of life can bring things to KonMari."

"The fact that I was very sure that I had chosen the right thing to do totally trumped any fear I had about entrepreneurship."

"Everyone at the seminars is super passionate about tidying and living their best lives."

"It's important for you to believe that you have something to provide that's valuable to people because you are."

"I never know what to expect when that door opens."

"As much as I love KonMari, if I didn't feel I could create a sustainable business around it, I would have have had to let go of the idea."

You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
You can find Kristyn Ivey at For the Love of Tidy