I'm Lenka.
And I'm Abbey.
And we're Lights Camera English!
And now I'm going to ask Lenka what this kondomarino...
ninoko... koma... kamino... miakam... what?
KonMari?
That's what I said, like, twice.
Well, I am going to tell you KonMari then.
Good.
OK, so... tell me about this Kondo Maria thing.
Her name is Marie Kondo.
Marie Kondo, OK. So what is... who is she?
She is Japanese and she is a world-known expert for decluttering.
OK.
And for me it all started three years ago, I believe it was,
around this time of the year, actually.
And I thought I needed a change in my life, and decluttering sounded very appealing at that time.
And because I wanted to do it right, I wanted to do it correctly, I started googling.
How to declutter.
OK.
And guess what: Five minutes later I thought I was probably the only person on the planet
who had not heard about Marie Kondo.
It was all over the web.
Everybody was so excited about her book: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying up.
Oh, I have heard of that.
Oh yeah. OK.
I never read, obviously, but...
Well, I bought it, I read it, and then the magic happened.
OK, alright, so, so, so tell me.
And so I started following her method, and I started a blog.
Blog?
I thought it would be a kind of accountability for me.
So I told a couple of friends and I started a blog documenting the process.
That's a good idea.
Because, you know, when you move into a new apartment...
Yeah...
... there's always a couple of boxes that are hidden somewhere...
Oh, yes.
... You never get to unpacking them.
So this is exactly what happened to me and I had this big box hidden behind the piano.
That's, that's where everyone keeps their boxes.
Behind the piano.
And actually I did try to get rid of them a couple of times over the years.
I always pulled the box out and I opened it and kind of looked into what was in there,
and then I thought, it's just too much. I can't...
Yeah, it's overwhelming, isn't it.
Totally overwhelming, so I hid the box behind the piano again, lived happily...
Another two years.
Exactly.
But this time it was completely different.
Imagine, imagine, me, jumping out of bed in the morning, in the morning...
No, no.
... excited to go on and continue with the decluttering process.
No, I don't believe it.
What is, what is this, what is the process?
Oh, I'm an Ambassador.
OK, alright, tell me.
There are two principles of her method.
There, there's more to it, but this is like the two main key points of her philosophy.
One is that you're supposed to take every object that you own.
Like, you pick up the thing, you look at it, and you say, or you ask yourself:
Does it spark joy?
Does it spark joy?
Well, right now, yes, 'cos it has my tea in it.
Thank you.
Right.
Well, anyway, it did spark joy at that time, this mug...
Yeah.
... so I kept it.
Right. What if it hadn't sparked joy?
Yeah, in case it does not spark joy, then you can let it go.
But that's the hard thing.
It's actually getting rid of things that, I just, I always feel really guilty.
Yes, absolutely. Because throwing things away when they are still usable ...
Yes, it feels wasteful.
It feels wasteful.
But not when you follow the KonMari method.
Because she explains that at that moment that you realize that it doesn't spark joy,
the object has served its purpose in your life, and you and it can start a new phase.
So you can actually let go, guilt-free.
And it's really, really powerful, I can really recommend it.
OK. That's interesting. OK.
I guess I should try that.
Maybe you should try that.
But what happened with the, with the blog then? How did that go?
Oh, that's a different story, and it's also interesting.
OK, tell me.
I stopped writing the blog when I was finished, there was no reason for me to continue.
But maybe a year later I got a message from a lady, from a, from a lady, from someone,
asking me about my experience, and it turned out to be a TV presenter, a TV lady.
Finally, at that time, the KonMari method arrived in the Czech Republic.
Ah, right, ten years after the world.
Not that long, actually, it was also published in Czech, so they were preparing a program,
a show about the KonMari method, and they were looking for people who had experience with it.
And I guess she googled KonMari and experience with KonMari in the Czech Republic, and voila.
Found you. OK.
So I ended up with a TV crew in my apartment, showing how beautiful, decluttered it was.
We were filming for five hours, maybe.
Wow, OK.
And then it got edited to three minutes.
But you know how they say that you have fifteen minutes of fame in your life, so that was it.
Well, you've got, you've got about twelve minutes left.
Oh yeah, right. That is correct.
So that was it.
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