Muse Goals, Challenges, and Awards

Whether you're starting a new practice or are an expert with Muse, the Muse app has a few fun features that can help you track your goals and celebrate key milestones!
 

Viewing your goals, challenges, and milestones
Setting weekly goals on your Muse app
Completing challenges
Earning awards and milestones
List of milestones
List of challenges

 

Viewing your goals, challenges, and milestones

You can view and track your goals, challenges, and milestones anytime in the Muse app through the steps below:

1. Tap the Me icon

2. Scroll down and tap This Week's Goal, your current challenge, or Latest Milestone
    

Awards are given after each of your sessions with Muse and can be viewed under each session in your Session history under the Me screen.

 

Setting weekly goals on your Muse app

We know building a new routine can be tricky! Try setting weekly goals, which can help you build a consistent practice with Muse.
 

1. Go to the Me screen by tapping the Me icon. 

2. Tap This Week's Goal. 

3. Tap Next Week's Goal and choose the number of hours or minutes you're aiming to train in the next week. 

4. Tap the Set Goal button.
    

Muse’s Weekly Goals always run from Monday to Sunday. If you need to make changes, you can always set next week’s goal. The current week is always locked.

If you're starting a new neurofeedback training or sleep practice, we encourage you to start with a realistic and achievable goal and grow from there.

Research shows that as few as three sessions per week can significantly improve sustained attention and reduce mind wandering, for example. Once you’ve got the rhythm, you can increase your goal to strengthen the habit.

 

Completing challenges

Challenges such as doing a session at the same time daily may help you build a more consistent practice with Muse in ways that will maximize the benefits of your mental fitness training.

Here are a few key things you should know about challenges:

• There are 23 levels you can progress through, each with unique requirements that will challenge you to explore important aspects of building a practice with Muse.

• Tap Level # Challenge on the Me page to see your progress toward your current challenge, along with your completed challenges. 

• Each challenge level starts when the previous challenge is completed.
  
  This is true even if you've completed the requirements for the later challenge level. For example, if you completed a 7-minute Muse session (Level 3) but are actively working on Level 1, you'll be challenged with completing another 7-minute session to earn Level 3! 
   

The full list of challenges is available to read through!

 

Earning awards and milestones

There are over 100 Awards and Milestones within the Muse app. You earn both awards and milestones based on your usage and achievements in the app.

Awards are given when you've reached a specific app-defined goal, whereas milestones tend to show your progression with a specific metric over time.
 

Awards

Here's a small preview of the awards that you can be given on the app: 

• Brave Adventurer Award - 60% active for your current session

• Perfect Timing Award - Session was less than 10% calm

• Wanderlust Award - Your calm % in the beginning third of your session was 20% higher than the last third of your session

• Aviary Award - Earning at least one bird for every minute of your session

• Bronze Medal - You achieved 100 points in your session

• Marathon Award - Completed a session longer than 20 minutes

There are many more fun awards to unlock! 
 

Milestones

Tap Latest Milestone on the Me page to take a trip down memory lane and see your milestones. We've also shared the seven types of milestones, along with the tiers you can reach.
 

Milestone Type	Description	Increments / Tiers
Birds	The total number of birds you've had land near you.	25, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2500, 5000, and 10000 birds
Calm minutes	Your total minutes of calm since you started Muse.	0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, and every extra 5 hours.
Calm sessions	The number of sessions you spent more than half your session calm.	1, 5, 10, 25, 50, and every extra 50 sessions.
Number of sessions	The number of sessions you finished.	5, 10, 25, 50, and every extra 50 sessions.
1-Day marathon	Each time you set a new personal record for the most time spent Musing in a single day.	-
Longest session	Each time you set a new personal record for the longest single Muse session.	-
Calmest	Each time you set a new personal record for time spent with a calm state of mind in a single session.	-

 

List of challenges

Level	Challenge Requirements
1	Do 4 sessions in 1 week
2	Get 1000 points
3	Do a session that's at least 7 minutes long
4	Do a session at around the same time of day for 2 days in a row
5	Get 10 bonus birds to land nearby
6	Do 4 sessions over 2 days
7	Get 2000 points
8	Do a session that's at least 12 minutes long
9	Do a session at around the same time of day for 3 days in a row (e.g. start a session at 9:00 am on day 1. On days 2 and 3, start the sessions between 8:45 am and 9:15 am)
10	Do a session in the morning and evening of the same day (Morning = 5:00 am - 12:00 pm, Evening = 5:00 pm - 11:59 pm of the same day)
11	Get 30 bonus birds to land nearby
12	Do a session that's at least 20 minutes long
13	Do a 20-minute session each day for 3 days
14	Do a session in the morning, afternoon, and evening of the same day (Morning = 5:00 am - 12:00 pm, Afternoon = 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Evening = 5:00 pm - 11:59 pm of the same day)
15	Do 5 sessions in 1 week
16	Do a session that's at least 40 minutes long
17	Do at least 20 minutes a day for 4 days in a row
18	Earn 10000 points
19	Do a session at around the same time of day for 4 days in a row (e.g. start a session at 9:00 am on day 1. On days 2 and 3, start the sessions between 8:45 am and 9:15 am)
20	Do 10 sessions in 2 weeks
21	Get 75 bonus birds to land nearby
22	Do at least 1 session every day for a week
23	Do at least 20 minutes a day for 5 days