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Do you ever feel like your home is just too full of stuff? There are professionals who can help you-they're called" decluttering consultants" (收纳整理师).

They go through people's homes and1them on what they should or should not be holding onto. Takumi Kawahara Kondo (近藤麻理惠), the Japanese author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (《怦然心动的人生整理魔法》), is2the best-known decluttering consultant.

This interesting profession (职业) is taking off in China, too. Wang Zehu, who works3a decluttering consultant in Shanghai, found her hands full during the

COVID-19 pandemic. "Many people have hoarded (囤积)a lot of stuff, 4 hand sanitizer (洗手液), facial masks and cleaning products, which can cause a mess," she told China Daily.

Wang5the skill of home organizing from Kawahara in 2019 in New York. She was the only Chinese student there.

"Kawahara not only teaches us about the ways of 6, but also about finding joy in tidying. By tidying, we' re allowed to reorient (给..... 重新定位) ourselves; we're able to discover our 7 of value. I'd like to bring the positive sides of tidying up to Chinese people," Wang said.

Services are priced by the hour and the size of the area being decluttered. Charges can range from 200 to 500 yuan an hour. "We help people draw up plans for their home. We'll talk about 8 the home should be like after the tidying-up, what stuff they are willing to throw out and what they want to9, "Wang said.

Wang added that it's not just about cleaning your room. It's a way of improving 10 between people and their space. It's about education and bringing beauty and comfort into one's life.

What can you do to help yourself get out of stress or worry? If you're an artist, you keep making art. And if you have never considered yourself an artist, now it is the time to take up an artistic hobby such as drawing or painting. It is never too late to start. Everyone can do it. If you can hold a brush or crayon, you can create art.

Creating art heals (治愈) not only the mind and spirit but also the body since all of these are connected. As you draw or paint, your breathing slows, your blood pressure lowers, and your mind lets go of daily problems. This slowing down allows you to fully experience the moment. The process not only relaxes you but also brings a feeling of joy, increasing your energy and enthusiasm (热情) for life.

Making art also allows you to play, freeing you to find out and try out new materials and methods. It also lets you express pleasure by seeing beauty where others may not. Creating art provides you a special chance to express your anger or upset, as well as your personal ideas.

Although the process of making art is the most important part, your finished product is significant too. Your painting or drawing will remind you of the lessons you learned while making it, and you may feel energetic just by looking at it.

If you don't know how to begin, here are some ways to start creating art. If possible, set aside a small table with your brushes and watercolors so you can get creative whenever you get inspiration. Without thinking much about it, just choose colors that you like and start painting with them, or cut pictures with those colors out of magazines and glue them down, combining (结合) them with paints. The act of enjoying the colors and working on the color combinations will give you something to focus on instead of the stresses of your daily life.

Have you ever wanted to achieve a goal and ended up doing lots of research on how to achieve it? As you learned more and more, it seemed you knew less and less. That is because when you learned a new concept (概念), you found that there was a lot more to know about it.

Usually, people think they need to get more and more information before trying a new idea. There is nothing wrong with learning a lot, but when you let learning get in the way of doing, you will never get going.

One of the best ways to learn is to take action and learn from the results that you get from those actions. Don't be afraid of not being perfect and just take the first step.

You will go further than those who are still in preparation. It's good to prepare, but over-preparation for trying to reach a goal won't get your results. The knowledge and skills that you need will be picked up along the way.

If a baby wants to learn how to walk, it doesn't do it by just sitting there and thinking about how to walk. The best way for a baby to walk is to actually get up and start walking. Sure it may fall, but with every fall, it learns what is working and what is not and adjusts (调整)to it. By doing this over and over, it will finally learn to walk. This is the method you should use when you want to achieve your goals as well. It works.

Leaning more is great but if all you're doing is learning and not taking action, it's time to change that. Just take the first step.

"I'm going to bed earlier tomorrow!" But no matter how we decide, there are still many chances that we break our promises.

This behavior is called "bedtime procrastination" (睡眠拖延症), and results from being short of self-control and our body clock.

Bedtime procrastination is a common problem.

According to a study, among 2, 400 people, 53 percent of them couldn't follow their sleeping time they had planned, delaying (推迟)it at least twice a week. They delayed bedtime not because they liked to stay up late, but they couldn't stop doing some other things.

Accordingly, people who usually have trouble resisting temptations (抵制诱惑) and adhering to their intentions (坚持已见) are more likely to delay going to bed.

However, scientists think being short of self-control is not the only problem. Our body clock also plays an important role when it comes to bedtime.

In order to check the influence of the body clock on sleep, scientists studied the sleep patterns (模式) of 108 people. It was found that those who got up late are more likely to delay their bedtime than those who woke up early every morning.

And more surprisingly, night owls (夜猫子) would go to bed late at the very beginning of the weekday, even though they had to get up early for work and school. It's their special body clock that plays a part in delaying their bedtime.

People always think that bedtime procrastination isn't a big problem, but the choices we make that affect (影响) our sleep could finally be pretty important for our health.

Do you sleep well every night? Studies show if we have a good rest, we must have more energy to study. At the same time, we will be healthier.

The sleep environment is very important to us. The bedroom is the main place where we sleep at night, so its environment directly affects the quality of our sleep. . So we should advise our parents to pay attention to our bedroom environment.

. The bedroom light should be neither too bright nor too dark. If the light is too dark, it will affect people's eyesight. If the light is too bright, it can affect the speed of falling asleep. So we should choose a kind of yellow light that gives a feeling of warmth.

. Many old people like to put a lot of flowers in the bedroom. Of course these flowers can make us relaxed and feel well. But there are too many plants in the bedroom, which can really affect people's sleep quality. .

Our bedroom should be ventilated (通风) often. . Otherwise, we may find it difficult to breathe, which can affect our sleep quality.

A. We should sleep at night with windows open.

B. Our bedroom should have proper light.

C. We should pay attention to our eyesight.

D. There shouldn't be too many flowers in our bedroom.

E. And good sleep plays an important role in our health.

F. So don't put too many plants in our bedroom.

G. We should often open the window so that fresh air can come in.