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Restorative Rest Planning

Rest you plan rather than whatever time is left over: an audit of where downtime goes, rest days and quiet weekends, leave spread across the year, and recharge activities tested for whether they actually restore.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Restorative Rest Planning, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you look after your own wellbeing. It is not medical or psychological advice and does not replace a doctor, therapist or counsellor. If you are in crisis, in danger or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line now.

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🧘 Mental & Emotional Wellbeing

Restorative Rest Planning

Planning real rest, including rest days, quiet weekends and recharge activities, so downtime actually restores rather than just passes.

  1. Four-week audit of where your downtime went
  2. Seven kinds of rest you may be short of
  3. Personal list of what genuinely restores you
  4. Two weeks of before and after rest ratings
  5. Naming the beliefs that make rest feel earned
  6. Rest floor for overloaded weeks
  7. Eight weeks of rest booked in the calendar
  8. Rules for a weekly rest day
  9. Household agreement on who rests when
  10. Weekly ten-minute rest planning slot
  11. Two protected evenings a week
  12. Micro-breaks across the working day
  13. Quiet weekend once a month
  14. Weekly time in green or blue space
  15. Weekly hour for an unproductive hobby
  16. Monthly rest review against the plan
  17. Quarterly solo restoration day
  18. Annual leave spread across the year
  19. Recovery days after every work peak
  20. Low-demand time with easy company
  21. Psychological detachment after the working day
  22. Practising doing nothing for twenty minutes
  23. Learning to nap without grogginess
  24. Telling rest apart from avoidance and numbing
  25. Closing open loops before time off
  26. Sensory rest in a loud and busy life
  27. Reading for pleasure again
  28. Declining invitations to protect planned rest
  29. Redesigning the weekend that leaves you tired
  30. Choosing the holiday style that restores you
  31. Cutting one recurring commitment to free rest time
  32. Buying back time with paid help
  33. A rest corner and kit at home
  34. Turning the commute into recovery time
  35. Holiday handover so time off is truly off
  36. Unused leave and carry-over check
  37. A long weekend with nothing booked
  38. Solo rest retreat weekend away
  39. Re-entry buffer after a holiday
  40. Rest-first plan for the festive season
  41. Year-end rest review and next year's rest calendar
  42. Rest swaps for parents of young children
  43. Respite and rest for unpaid carers
  44. Rest planning around shift work and rotas
  45. Rest for remote workers whose home is the office
  46. Rest for founders and the self-employed
  47. Rest when retirement leaves days unstructured
  48. Month-long test of three rest formats
  49. Proposing team rest norms as a lead
  50. Personal rest rhythm across the day, week, season and year

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Four-week audit of where your downtime went

Most people overestimate how much rest they get, because evenings spent half-working or scrolling feel like time off while they are happening. Going back through the last four weeks of calendar, messages and memory shows how many hours were genuinely free, what filled them and how you felt afterwards. That picture is the starting point for every plan in this area.

First tasks

  • Open your calendar and list every evening and weekend day from the last four weeks
  • Mark each block as restful, neutral or draining
  • Add up the restful hours for each of the four weeks
  • Write down the two activities that most often swallowed free time

Seven kinds of rest you may be short of

Sleep fixes physical tiredness but not the fatigue of constant decisions, noise, emotional labour or never making anything for fun. A widely used framework splits rest into seven kinds: physical, mental, sensory, emotional, social, creative and spiritual. Scoring yourself on each shows why a lie-in can still leave you flat, and points your rest planning at the gap that matters.

First tasks

  • Read a short summary of the seven types of rest
  • Score each type from 0 to 10 for the last fortnight
  • Circle the two lowest scores as your focus gaps
  • Pick one small activity that would fill each gap

Personal list of what genuinely restores you

Ask people what they do to relax and they list what they habitually do in free time, which is not the same thing. Testing activities against how you feel an hour later separates the ones that restore from the ones that merely pass time. A written list of twenty restorers, sorted by the time and energy each needs, makes choosing rest quick on a tired evening.

First tasks

  • Brainstorm thirty things you do or used to do in free time
  • Mark each one restores, passes time or drains
  • Sort the restorers by how much time each one needs
  • Save the final list as a note on your phone

Make it yours.

Install Restorative Rest Planning, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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