The Only Mental Wellness App That Keeps You Accountable To Yourself
Founders First recently introduced a commitments feature that aims to make you more accountable to improving your mindstate and performance as an entrepreneur. While the app does offer a selection of mindfulness tools in conjunction with a daily journal process, Founders First believes that true progress and improvement is made through making commitments - big or small - to yourself and following through.
After updating your daily journal, the app suggests two things: (1) a mindfulness tool, and (2) a commitment. Both are meant to either improve your current mindstate or support it for the future. In terms of the suggested commitment, you will have the option to accept it or update it with your own details. The next time you update your journal, you’ll be asked whether you completed your previous commitment or not. If so, you’ll be able to check it off just like you would any other item on your to-do list.
For example, let’s say you’ve been keeping a strong level of calm over the last few days. Maintaining high levels of calm can support creativity and improve problem solving. As a result, the app might suggest using a breathing tool to fully activate and engage calm feelings in the moment. In addition, it may also suggest that today is a great day to design or create something new that will help you move faster toward your goals. You can either commit to that specific action, or fill in your own commitment showing what you’ll build or design today.
We make to-do lists with action items to reach business-related goals every day. Founders First brings that same practice to improving our mental state as entrepreneurs. By making commitments, we’re holding ourselves accountable to considering our mental health instead of disregarding or ignoring it. It’s one thing to use a 5 to 10-minute mindfulness tool to achieve a balanced mood, but it’s another thing entirely to go a step further and commit to an action that will bring an even greater benefit.
Another example is when you’ve been maintaining consistently high energy recently. Having a rising level of energy is shown to support the discipline required to stay healthy and productive long enough to find success. The app might suggest using a meditation tool to boost that high level of energy. It may also suggest that you commit to finishing an annoying task to clear it from your to-do list once and for all. This item can be personal or professional in nature. The idea is simply to commit to completing a task that has been hanging over your head for some time. Finishing it will help free up more energy so you can be more productive in other areas of your life.
The goal in making these commitments is to ensure that we have more skin in the game, so to speak. Making an active commitment to ourselves is meant to make us more invested in that outcome. In turn, we hope that these commitments will build new habits in establishing a mindfulness routine.
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