Doing Something for Others

The runsheet

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   One clear intention

   Intention setting

   Before the shift, take a few quiet minutes to name why you are showing up. It doesn’t have to be a grand mission, just the honest reason: to be useful, to get out of your own head, to learn the work.

   10 min activitySetup 1 min · Reset 1 min · 12 min all-in

   See the recommended Bearmore guide

2. Bearmore’s thoughts on doing intention setting before formal volunteering

   This can work well because intention setting may put you in a more thoughtful frame of mind before an activity centred on contribution and care.

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   Volunteer

   Formal volunteering

   The core of the block: a real volunteering shift, perhaps driving someone to an appointment, visiting an older person, or working a shop. Red Cross (who this Burst was inspired by) gives induction and training, so day one is not on you alone.

   90 min activitySetup 8 min · Reset 8 min · 106 min all-in

   See the recommended Bearmore guide

3. Bearmore’s thoughts on doing formal volunteering before journaling

   These go especially well together because writing can help keep the experience vivid and make it easier to hold onto what it meant.

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   Journal after the volunteering

   Journaling

   Once the shift ends, take fifteen minutes to write so you can process it: what you noticed, who you met, what felt harder or better than expected. Volunteers often talk of purpose and unexpected connection.

   15 min activitySetup 1 min · Reset 1 min · 17 min all-in

   See the recommended Bearmore guide

4. Time well spent.

   2h 15m spent doing something good for yourself.