Mood - 1. Getting Started

This is an odd place for me to start. I thought that I would do something was easily quantifiable, like my diet, weight, or steps taken, and I am sure that I will cover those things. However, I started using MoodPanda last month and I find it quite helpful. I never thought about trying to quantify my mood. Growing up, I spent a lot of time alone and didn't really have a fluency of emotions. Even as an adult it has been hard to interpret moods sometimes.

MoodPanda, put simply, is a mood tracker. Whenever you feel the urge you score your mood on a scale of 1 to 10: 1 to 4 are not good, 5 is OK and 6 - 10 are good to great. Over time, you can see trends. Month view allows you to see the ups and downs of the week. You can see your daily mood compared to the global average, Fitbit data can even be imported so you can compare your steps to your mood. When rating your mood you can write some text as to why you gave a particular score.

Tracking my mood has allowed me to have better idea of where my head is at. I'd had a lot of work related stress recently and having the MoodPanda app would have been very helpful to get through some of the stress. If I am not feeling great about something it is wonderful to have a tool to help instantly reflect on a situation. Or even if I am feeling great about something and I might feel like it is bragging if I tweet about it. One of the great things about MoodPanda is that you are anonymous. You can post publicly, but you only use whatever name and initial you put in. You have the option of posting to social media, but that is not what I use social media for.

Anyway, I have collected 42 days of moods and developed a baseline for where my mood should be at a given day. For the time being I will monitor without attempting to modify my behavior.

MP:
Average mood: 6.1
Happy: 65.7%
Ok: 10.4%
Unhappy: 23.9%