Happy in Your Own Company
Designed by BearmoreWhen you’re never really alone.
Enjoy some time to yourself. Read for a while, extend some kindness, then go for a ride or walk outside.
The runsheet
Fifteen minutes with a book
Reading (mindful)Fifteen minutes with an actual book, and no screen on-the-go at the same time. This is reading in your own space. Pick a chapter, read it slowly, keep all other distractions away.
15 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing reading (mindful) before acts of kindness
This can help because the contemplative state from reading can carry into kindness, where considered attention to others matters.
One kind gesture
Acts of kindnessTen minutes doing one small unannounced good thing. A coffee paid for the next person, a long thank-you to the person who delivered something, the lift home given without making it about the giving.
10 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing acts of kindness before being in nature
This is an excellent pairing because nature may deepen warm feelings from helping, offering a calm space to reflect on connection.
Out on the bike or go by foot
Being in natureHalf an hour outside on the bike, on the motorcycle, or on foot. It might be a ride to the cafe, a walk down the canal, a slow lap of the park. Keep it solitary, outdoors and without a destination, and long enough that the contemplative time can be felt.
30 min activityTime well spent.
1h 5m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
Wellbeing focus
About this Burst
This Burst transposes a quiet life into a routine, with just three key practices: reading a physical book, one kind act for someone else, and a long stretch outside on the bike or by foot that holds the contemplative space.