Welcome to GoldMind! This app has been designed to give you the most mindful, focused, purpose-driven writing experience possible. Get ready to reflect, dig deep, and become more aware of yourself and your life than you ever have before.
This article will help you gain a vision for what GoldMind can do for you. We’ve broken it down into a handful of short points:
1. Build the habit and start small
Building the journaling habit is difficult just like any other good habit. But it is so rewarding! If you think you will struggle with journaling consistently (and let’s face it, all of us do), it’s better to start small. We recommend following the appropriately named Tiny Habits method:
Pick an element of your daily routine to insert your GoldMind journaling after.
Example: “After brushing my teeth, I will open GoldMind.”
Even if you just focus on opening GoldMind and don’t get to writing, solidifying this tiny habit will help you get to the right place so you can eventually start journaling consistently. Remember that failing is normal and don’t beat yourself up!
If you’ve completed both parts of the GoldMind introduction experience, you know that it ends with you choosing two Topics to start with, each scheduled every other day of the week. If you want more options on your daily schedule, you can always go to your Notebook and schedule additional topics throughout your week.
2. GoldMind is a journal, but also so much more. Make notebooks for every high level area of your life
Think about what general categories the different aspects of your life fall into. Try and stay pretty high level. Notebooks simply help you group related topics so that you can find them more easily. Here are some examples of notebooks you might create:
- Mindfulness – A place where you can write about your emotions and other mindfulness topics. E.g., gratitude, stress, your relationship with yourself, failure, anxiety, etc.
- People – The important relationships in your life will benefit from your reflecting on them. Create a topic for each person so that you can ensure that your relationship with them is intentional. GoldMind also helps you to If you like to gather quotes. You can create Topics for all the people you have said meaningful things you’d like to save and reflect on.
- Books – If you read a lot and want to actually change as a result of what you read, you need to take notes. Create a Topic for each book you read and you will be able to come back to those notes easily. Each note can also be tagged with whatever Topic the note relates to making it easy to find it wherever it will be useful to you.
- Spiritual – Journaling is a powerful way to create the solitude and focused introspection needed to reflect on spiritual matters. And if you’re like me, you have a lot of spiritual heroes with quotes about lots of spiritual topics that you’ll want to store and reflect on.
- Professional – Create Topics for any aspect of your professional life that you want to be more intentional about. Reflecting at the end of each work day can produce powerful results for your growth and productivity at work. It can also help you to release work stress before transitioning home so that it doesn’t spill into other areas of your life.
- Other ideas could be hobbies, projects, a business, or any other important area of your life, as long as it’s not too specific. If you can’t think of topics to create inside it, it should probably be a Topic itself.
3. Make Topics a gathering place for the most meaningful ideas you come across
This point speaks more practically to the one above.
You’ll find that as you do more writing, you will do more thinking. You’ll have an idea pop into your mind along with a sense that it’s important. Jump on GoldMind and take a Quick Note to capture the thought. Then you can easily add whatever Topic(s) the idea relates to so you can find it with other related ideas whenever you want.
As stated earlier, you may also come across quotes, ideas, or questions as you are on social media, reading books and articles, or listening to a podcast that you want to reflect on. If you don’t write them down, you will forget them! If you do write them down, you can reflect on them. You can allow them change your life rather than just being something interesting that you briefly considered as you rushed through your day.
Over time, GoldMind can become a repository for all of the most meaningful ideas you have had or come across. If you take the time to reflect on them, you will see serious growth and transformation in your thinking, which will spill into the rest of your life.
4. Learn to explore your thoughts
You will have to practice mindfully journaling. It doesn’t come naturally to everybody, and it can be uncomfortable when nothing immediately comes to mind. Learn to sit with the prompts that GoldMind gives you. Write whatever comes to your mind, and try to explore tangential thoughts that may seem even somewhat relevant. Come up with additional questions to help you dig deeper into concepts, write them down, and respond to them as well. If you don’t like the prompt exactly as it is, feel free to rewrite it in a way that allows you to explore important ideas better.
If you are struggling to come up with much to write, that is normal. If you begin to feel anxious about it, try to transform that feeling into curiosity. Sit with an idea for a while without expectation.
The more vulnerable you allow yourself to become, the more effective your mindful journaling will be. Choose to be fearless in your exploration of your internal world.
5. Explore the Exercise Library
If you’re getting tired of the exercises you’ve tagged with a given Topic, go to the exercise library and explore other options. There are usually several exercise that relate to a given topic in GoldMind. Feel free to clear your schedule of one Topic or Exercise and replace it with another if you want to try something else.
6. Give us Feedback!
We need to know what you like and don’t like about the GoldMind experience! You can join the GoldMind Feedback Facebook group to share your thoughts or email us at feedback@goldmind.app. We crave your thoughts on what would make it the most powerful and simple experience possible, so we will be developing additional ways to quickly provide feedback from within GoldMind in the coming months.
