Time for What Matters to You
Designed by BearmoreWhen you keep saying “one day” about doing the stuff you love.
End your day better than you started, with time spent meaningfully. A few minutes of prayer or meditation, a poem, writing on one meaningful question, then time to play some music.
The runsheet
A few minutes of quietness
MantraTake a few quiet minutes to repeat a single phrase. It can be a short prayer if that's part of your life, or one word that matters to you.
10 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing mantra before reading (mindful)
This works well because any focused calm from mantra can carry into mindful reading and sustained attention.
Read some poems
Reading (mindful)Choose one short passage you can really sit with and get something from it. A poem, a psalm, or a few pages of a novel all do the job.
15 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing reading (mindful) before creative writing
This is an excellent pairing because reading primes the rhythms and patterns of language, which writing then draws on without needing much warming up.
Write with the freedom to be yourself
Creative writingCave (who this Burst was inspired by) treats sitting at the desk in office hours as the work itself. Pick a question that matters to you and write until it feels answered.
35 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing creative writing before creating music
This can help because music-making can express any insights and emotions from writing in a different way.
Piano
Creating musicClose with music rather than words, playing or humming a few chords with no audience required.
20 min activityTime well spent.
1h 40m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
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About this Burst
Having some order in your day is what gives you freedom. This Burst composes that spirit into four moves you can keep: read something worth sitting inside, take a few quiet minutes, do one real piece of writing, then end at the piano. It leans contemplative, and suits anyone who keeps putting their own work off.