You Simply Must Check Out Mindbloom

by Brooke on July 21, 2010 7 comments »

I hope you’ll allow me a moment to squeal {absolutely SQUEAL!} in delight over a gorgeous new website I’ve discovered.
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Summer has been a hectic mish-mash of trying to balance time with my sweet children, keeping the house clean, shopping for healthy food, cooking healthy food, blogging about not-always-healthy food, and trying to soak in the precious moments of this blessed season. I feel, very often, that I’m failing miserably at this game of a balanced life.
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So, imagine my delight to discover an online game designed to help you achieve your greatest goals by helping players organize their priorities, time, and simple daily successes. The website is called Mindbloom, and it’s absolutely incredible.
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The internet is a wonderful place, but there are so many sites that waste time and distract us from our ultimate goals. I absolutely adore the team behind Mindbloom for creating a site that enhances our real world life, rather than sucking us into yet another virtual one. Here’s how it works…

CLICK HERE to visit the site. When you arrive at the site, just click on “Play Now” to begin creating your Mindbloom account. The first thing you’ll do is choose three areas of life that are most important to you from a list of eight general aspects. A friendly dragonfly is your narrator for the journey.

You then rate yourself in each of your selected life areas. Do you spend a lot of time in one area? Are you not focusing enough on another? When I created my account several weeks ago, I loved taking a moment to consider the things that are important to me, evaluating how I’m spending my time in each of the areas.

There’s one more step before Mindbloom creates your account. You get to confirm that the three area’s selected are those which you’s most like to start focusing on through Mindbloom. Just look at those graphics! Aren’t they breathtaking, and peaceful, and soothing? So beautiful.

Now comes the lovely part. Mindbloom takes grows a tiny tree–a Life Tree–which represents the life you will grow by creating and maintaining the areas of life that matter to you, with each of the leaves representing your specific goals, passions, or dreams. At this point, I worried that I would be overwhelmed by learning how to navigate the game, but the website is so comprehensively designed and organized (with Mr. Dragonfly returning to guide me whenever I needed) that it was surprisingly simple to get started.

With a Life Tree grown on your behalf, the website will prompt you to set small, realistic daily goals which will help you prioritize your life and nourish the most important parts of your life. Personalized email notifications arrive in your inbox daily, reminding you of the steps you’ve committed to take.

If you’re looking to maintain better balance in your own life, check out Mindbloom. You may just find (as I have) that it’s one website that enhances your everyday life, rather than distract from it.

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