Set Your Space
Designed by Bearmore
Inspired by Marie KondoDoes your home impact on how you feel for the rest of your day?
Setup your physical space before you get into the rest of the day. The Set-the-Space Burst gives you an hour of tidying, decluttering of one drawer, a meditation, and a tea ritual.
The runsheet
Tidy up the visible areas
Tidying & cleaning (mindful)Ten minutes at the visible surfaces, the bed, the kitchen counter, the table by the door, anywhere the eye lands first. The aim is order, not deep cleaning. Move at conversation pace.
10 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing tidying & cleaning (mindful) before decluttering (mindful)
These go together equally well in this order because cleaning exposes what needs sorting and decluttering picks up and finishes the work tidying started.
One area to declutter
Decluttering (mindful)Fifteen minutes on one small area you've been avoiding: a drawer, a shelf, a corner of the wardrobe. Hold each item, decide whether it stays. Marie Kondo's lasting contribution is the slow-attention-per-thing approach, not the speed.
15 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing decluttering (mindful) before open awareness
This is one of the stronger pairings because the spaciousness of an organised environment mirrors what open awareness cultivates internally, with less background clutter pulling at your attention.
Meditate in the clean room
Open awarenessTen minutes meditating in the space you've just set. No agenda. The point is to notice that the room feels different without telling yourself a whole story about it.
10 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing open awareness before eating (mindful)
This works well because open awareness can naturally extend into attentive, present-moment eating without forcing focus.
Slow tea
Eating (mindful)Make tea slowly, drink it sitting down without a screen. Ten minutes. The recurring tea-as-closing-ritual register across Marie Kondo's work; the session ends when the cup is empty.
10 min activityTime well spent.
1h 1m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
Wellbeing focus
About this Burst
Marie Kondo is the Japanese tidying expert behind The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Macro tier (~859K Instagram followers @konmari.co). Stepped back from professional organising in 2023 to focus on family. The KonMari Method and 'spark joy' are active trademarks with certification programmes and licensing.