Back to Practising
Designed by BearmoreThat guitar in the corner hasn’t been picked up in months.
Get better at one thing instead of dabbling in ten. A morning of reading, practising an instrument, one act of kindness, and some time on a craft.
The runsheet
Read something that stretches you
Reading (mindful)Twenty minutes of reading something that asks you to stretch. The version that survives the loop is the one that makes you slightly better at being yourself, rather than one that confirms what you already think.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing reading (mindful) before creating music
This can help because reading often surfaces ideas or moods that music-making can express in sound.
Twenty minutes at the piano
Creating musicTwenty minutes at an instrument. If you don't play piano, twenty minutes of singing, drumming on a table, or learning chords on an app works. Skill is downstream of the repetition.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing creating music before acts of kindness
This can help because any positive energy from music-making could make acts of kindness feel more possible and outward-facing.
One act of kindness
Acts of kindnessFifteen minutes spent on something useful for one specific person. Learn people's names and back-stories, and what they need. The act doesn't have to be big; it has to be conscious.
15 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing acts of kindness before craft
This can be a good pairing because the hands-on nature of craft can channel any positive energy from helping into making something meaningful.
Make something
CraftTwenty-five minutes making a tangible object. You might pot a plant, mend a shirt, build a model, work the clay. The concept of the morning's loop is the same: hands on the same problem until the problem starts moving.
25 min activityTime well spent.
1h 44m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
Wellbeing focus
About this Burst
Groundhog Day (the film this Burst was inspired by) treats skill and decency as things repetition builds, one ordinary day at a time. This Burst is composed in that spirit and arranged as a morning of incremental practice: read something that asks you to grow, work on a craft, do something useful for someone else, then make something with your hands. None of these are fast wins; that's the point.