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How is it the last day of February already? Wow, well it is time to evaluate my February goals and set goals for March.

Review of February Goals

Business

  • <Gasp> I haven’t even looked at the Type-A February Challenge. It came out late, mid-month and I haven’t had time.
  • I’m almost done with my media kit from the Media Kit Smash class! The class was awesome. I just have some tweaking to do.
  • My pageviews are up over 20% YAY! Thanks for your help.
  • My weekly newsletter  is set up and will start in March. You can subscribe here. Also, I’d love for you to take my 3 question Newsletter Survey
  • I have started writing my eBook but I am a bit behind schedule.

Personal

  • Still failing at the water consumption.
  • I’m averaging 3,392 steps a day. I need to get moving more.
  • We still haven’t found a time that works to get together with Aaron & Summer regularly. Aaron is working a lot of evening events lately.
  • I have done well on my reading goal. I finished Kingdom Keepers V: Shell Game. 

Spiritual

Household

  • Meal planning is still on track
  • Living Room corners and media area de-cluttered
  • Game closet de-cluttered

Overall, February was an ok month. Some goals have been hit and others still need a little more work.

March 2015 goals

March 2015 Goals

Business

  • 15,000 pageviews. we are close and with your help, we can get there.
  • Type-A Challenge for February and March
  • Get half way through eBook writing

Personal

  • 5,000 steps a day minimum-this is going to take a lot of work
  • 64oz of water a day
  • Continue reading a chapter a day for pleasure

Spiritual

Household

  • Keep up the meal planning
  • Get back on schedule with daily chores
  • Continue work in the den/office
  • De-clutter kitchen

You may remember, I am part of a Facebook group that encourages each other as we set and work towards our goals. We have created this linky so that we can share these goals. If you write about your goals, please feel free to link up with us



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The first month of 2015 is coming to an end. It is time to evaluate the goals I set for January and continue with some of them and add new ones where needed. For me, January was a month of putting old procedures back in place and creating some new ones. My office is still not nearly completed but I have been working from there anyway for the past few weeks. It really does make a difference having a dedicated work space. This has pushed me forward into working harder to get this room completed.

February 2015 Goals

Review of January Goals

Business

I completed Content Brew! This course is a wonderful way to fill up your editorial calendar and start thinking creatively about upcoming blog content. If you are a blogger and haven’t taken this course, I highly recommend it. It is self-paced so you can start any time! I am participating in the Type-A Parent 2015 Next Level Blog Challenge and I completed the January Challenge. I am in the middle of the Media Kit Smash class, it runs through February 6th. Soon this will be available as a self-paced class as well. Make sure you are following my Facebook page so that you can know when that happens. Unfortunately, my pageviews are way down for January 🙁

Personal

I did pretty well at going to bed by 11pm most nights. I was horrible at drinking my water, I have done better with it now that I am sitting at my desk and I keep my water glass with me. I set a low goal for steps and I still failed miserably. Two days I forgot to wear my Fitbit! Two days I reached my goal one of those was a Disney day and the other was when we went to Monster Jam. I will do better in February because I have signed up for the Vionic Walkabout. This will help be be even more accountable. Have you signed up for the Walkabout, it starts February 1st!

Spiritual

I did much better, reading my Bible and praying at least 5 days a week. I am also loving the online Bible study I am currently in.

Household

I did meal plan for January and we actually stuck to the plan about 75% of the time. Daily house cleaning was hit or miss. I never found another decluttering challenge that suited me but I have been focusing on one area of the house a week to declutter and progress is being made.

February Goals

Business

  • Participate in the Type-A Parent 2015 Next Level Blog Challenge and complete the February Challenge.
  • Complete the January/February Media Kit Smash class and finally have a professional media kit!
  • Increase my pageviews by 10%, you can help by sharing my blog posts on your social media!
  • Create a weekly newsletter.
  • Start writing my first eBook

Personal

  • Drink at least 64oz of water a day and log it
  • Get in at least 5,000 steps a day-this will be easier with the Walkabout-I hope!
  • Spend one evening a week with all 5 of us together-getting on Aaron  Summer’s schedule has proven to be difficult.
  • Read one chapter a day in a book for pleasure.

Spiritual

  • Read my Bible daily
  • Spend time in prayer daily
  • Take part in a Bible Study-There are 5 weeks left in my online Bible study

Household

  • Meal planning-keep it up
  • Daily cleaning-get back on schedule
  • Declutter living room (media corner-end tables-misc junk)
  • Clean and declutter the game closet
  • Put dresser in office and re-organize

You may remember, I am part of a Facebook group that encourages each other as we set and work towards our goals. We have created this linky so that we can share these goals. If you write about your goals, please feel free to link up with us!



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]]> I love using Mindbloom so I’m rather sad that more of you don’t want to become better people. Oh well…since there are 5 memberships to give away and only 4 people entered the giveaway, you are all winners!! Congratulations to Claire, Wendy, Brittany and Freebies City!

Make sure you enter my Sesame Street Live giveaway of you are in Central Florida and my Revolution Worship Live CD giveaway. I have lots of other great giveaways coming up as my 2011 Holiday Guide goes into full gear this week.

Pleas stop by my Facebook page and vote in the poll I have going there. The topic is giveaways.

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]]> https://themommaven.com/mindbloom-winners/feed/ 0 Mindbloom Review and Giveaway 5 winners https://themommaven.com/mindbloom-review-and-giveaway-5-winners/ https://themommaven.com/mindbloom-review-and-giveaway-5-winners/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:58:04 +0000 http://themommaven.com/?p=6662 The joy of Mindbloom is you make it what you need it to be.

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]]> Last month I gave you a sneak peek into Mindbloom,  a fun, simple, and effective interactive life game to help people improve their quality of life. I have been using the game for 3 weeks now and I wanted to report back to you about my experience with Mindbloom.

The history of Mindbloom: Two entrepreneurial dads, who happen to be the former executive producer of blockbuster game hits like F.E.A.R and Tron and a former Amazon executive, have created a life game on steroids that promises to rock the field of wellness and personal growth. Mindbloom’s goal is to put the power of behavioral science behind the social gaming phenomenon to inspire people to achieve their offline life priorities – health, lifestyle, career, creativity, relationships, finances, and spirituality. For example, in beta, they  discovered that users are already experiencing a few everyday victories in the physical world such as calling their parents more, calmly responding to issues instead of blaming and criticizing their spouse, brewing their coffee to save money on lattes, and drinking 8 oz of water daily. The founders created the company during an Oprah moment (literally) after putting on a few “sympathy” pounds and realizing they were missing too many “daddy moments.”


The photo above is of my tree, as it looked this morning. In Mindbloom the leaves are your goals. Goals you have set in various life areas…career, relationships, creativity, spirituality, health, and more. I visit Mindbloom twice a day. In the morning I visit and spend a few minutes being inspired by either watching my personalized inspiration slide show (my online vision board) or by viewing community inspiration and adding new inspirational quotes, images and/or music to my slide show. By adding to my inspiration I receive sun points, when you achieve 100 sun points the sun nourishes your tree and gives it a healthy glow. Next I take a look at which goals I have scheduled to work on today. I have some goals that occur every day and others that-due to my schedule are scheduled for specific days of the week. If I have already complete some of the goals I mark them off, otherwise I just remind myself what today’s goal are so that I can incorporate them into my day. Then at the end of the day I visit Mindbloom again and and check off the goals that I accomplished-which adds rain points to my cloud. When I achieve 100 rain points my cloud waters my tree and makes it sparkle.

Your Mindbloom goals can be simple things like drink water, take a walk, spend one-on-one time with your child, write a to-do list-or more involved things move money into the vacation account, write a thought provoking article, read a chapter in the Bible. The goals can be customized to exactly what you need in your life right now!

I have enjoyed my 3 weeks on Mindbloom, and I have seen growth in some areas of my life and that small dark brown leaf on my tree is my lifestyle leaf for “reading for pleasure” which is something I haven’t done in 2 weeks and I need to do…today! The game itself is easy to use and easy to customize. The joy of Mindbloom is you make it what you need it to be. Mindbloom is also social, you are not the only tree in the forest. You can set your privacy settings however you want and your friends can comment on your journal entries and even give you gifts of sunshine or rain for your tree to help encourage you along! In my opinion, the only downside of Mindbloom is that they don’t have an app-you just use the mobile website which is limited but not terrible, I’d be happier if there was an Android app available. The game is free but…there are premium features available and I am giving away 5 lifetime premium GrowPro packages ($89 value) he GrowPro package provides access to premium content, rewards, and more.

Mandatory 1st Entry: Leave me a comment telling 3 areas of your life that your would like to focus on in Mindbloom.

Bonus Entries:

  • 5 entries for signing up for Mindbloom and adding me (Cindy Schultz) as a friend-leave a separate comment for each of the 5 entries
  • Like Mindbloom on Facebook
  • Like TheMomMaven on Facebook
  • Like this post on Facebook using the button at the bottom of this post
  • Follow @Mindbloom on Twitter
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  • Tweet this I want to grow the life I want with a @Mindbloom GrowPro package from @MomMaven ends 11/14 http://bit.ly/sLEfF4    (you can do this 2x a day. Leave a separate comment for each entry including the tweet’s URL)
  • +1 this post on Google using the button at the bottom of this post
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This giveaway is open to the US and Canada. The winners will be chosen by Random.org. The giveaway closes at 9pm ET on 11/14/11. The winners will have 48 hours to respond via email to claim their prize.
Disclosure: I will recieve payment and a lifetime GrowPro package for my involvement in this promotion.

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]]> I love games, goal setting and self-improvement. Well there is a new website  that combines all of those things…and much more. That website is Mindbloom.com. Just launched this week, Mindbloom is a fun, simple, and effective interactive life game to help people improve their quality of life. No offense to Farm Town and Bejeweled, but Mindbloom is about enhancing real lives, not virtual worlds and the company is taking a new approach to inspire people to define what’s important, discover what motivates them, and take meaningful daily actions in all areas of their life. Mindbloom is about helping anyone grow the life they want in a few minutes a day.

Here is a bit of a video intro to Mindbloom.

I’ve just started my free Mindbloom account and so far I really like the interface-it is clean and easy to use. I am going to use the site for a few weeks and then I’ll give you a full review. At that time I’ll also be holding a giveaway for some of the premium features in Mindbloom. So, go to Mindbloom.com and get started growing your life. Make sure you add me as a friend (Cindy Schultz) and then keep checking back for that review and giveaway.

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