My app idea is called the Balance Bar.
It is a productivity/ lifestyle app. The process and layout is very simple and straight forward. You have 5 buttons in your app that represents 5 categories; Health, Mental, Network, Spiritual, and Money. At the beginning of each week you define for each category what you will to improve. Each day as you do it, you push the button you just did, and it lights up. At the end of the day if you light them all up, you gain points, and if at the end of the week, you consistently do the daily list, you are put in a fishbowl pool. This idea plays off a couple of others, it takes a methodology that is similar to Tim Ferriss's of three key items a day and ties it with James Altuchers 4 Spiritual practice model. The person inputs what they plan to do each day of that week in 5 catagories; Health, Mental, Network, Spiritual, and Money. As they do each thing each day. the button for that items lights up. At the end of the week, if you did each item each day (perhaps putting a time requirement to keep from just clicking it.) Tied to this I would like to take two concepts I read in the book Willpower; One is that people do better with long term goals if they can identify with their future self, so create a way of having them define their future self and see what they can do to help them meet it. Excerpt; You can use this quirk of decision making to resist immediate gratification, whatever the temptation: 1. When you are tempted to act against your long-term interests, frame the choice as giving up the best possible long-term reward for whatever the immediate gratification is. 2. Imagine that long-term reward as already yours. Imagine your future self enjoying the fruits of your self-control. 3. Then ask yourself: Are you willing to give that up in exchange for whatever fleeting pleasure is tempting you now? The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can DoTo Get More of It by Ph.D., Kelly McGonigal The second step is social, each time you meet your goals of the week, you join the group board and you are put in a fishbowl drawing that is held each month. Here is an excerpt from Willpower that applies; The promise of reward has even been used to help people overcome addiction. One of the most effective intervention strategies in alcohol and drug recovery is something called the fish bowl. Patients who pass their drug tests win the opportunity to draw a slip of paper out of a bowl. About half of these slips have a prize listed on them, ranging in value from $1 to $20. Only one slip has a big prize, worth $100. Half of the slips have no prize value at all—instead, they say, “Keep up the good work.” This means that when you reach your hand into the fish bowl, the odds are you’re going to end up with a prize worth $1 or a few kind words. This shouldn’t be motivating—but it is. In one study, 83 percent of patients who had access to fish bowl rewards stayed in treatment for the whole twelve weeks, compared with only 20 percent of patients receiving standard treatment without the promise of reward. Eighty percent of the fish bowl patients passed all their drug tests, compared with only 40 percent of the standard treatment group. When the intervention was over, the fish bowl group was also far less likely to relapse than patients who received standard treatment—even without the continued promise of reward The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can DoTo Get More of It by Ph.D., Kelly McGonigal This app can fit in many categories; such as Lifestyle and Productivity. First off, I just made beef bourguignon made from Julia Child's recipe. It took a while, but came out well. Actually it was awesomely good. I just updated my other site, http://www.lifestylebusinessbookclub.com/ , with my notes on Tim Ferriss' book The 4-Hour Workweek. Also, take a look at http://www.indestructiblemuscle.com/. I recently have been reading through the blog, and it is rare I go back and read the old material, but I am glad I did. Looking at one post is nothing, but looking at them all, I learned a lot about myself and I now have some ideas on how to improve the blog. Let me know how I can improve it, and what you would like to see more of. The 8 things I think I need to do (so far); 1. I obviously need to get tested for ADD. I get fascinated by way too many things. Focus would help. I will call Dr. Kim this week. 2. It wouldn't hurt to show my sense of humor, I have read through this, and damn I come off as a stiff and some articles are way too dry aka boring, and trust me, I have been accused of many things, but being a stiff not one of them. 3. Kind of similar, but after reading through all the entries, I realize that I have been very vague, and do not ever get personal. Tha needs to change. (Example: no real picture of me) 4. Every time I start to get into something, I drift off and then create a new domain, and then don't link them together. Time to just put it all here, and if there is something on one of my other sites I will connect it. 5.Write more, quote less. I love quotes but damn. (There will still be some, but hopefully they will be accompanied by some text from me. Think Montaigne.) 6. Make the format a little easier to follow. Look at my categories / (says it all.) 7. I should link in and out to my other sites. ( See links above.) 8. I need less abstract and more concrete examples. Do. Test. Correct. Do Again. If you have any ideas or thoughts, feel free to email me, or leave your thoughts below. D Bruce, of course, was a firm believer in the scientific method in not only his philosophy, but also its application to combat. He once said in an interview: "We should regard our martial art training as scientific and every energy and capacity can be explained by science. It is not mystical at all. Therefore, everything should logical."[26] And: "In any physical movement there is always a most efficient and alive manner to accomplish the purpose of the performance for each individual. That is, in regard to proper leverage, balance in movement, economical and efficient use of motion and energy, etc. Live, efficient movement that liberates is one thing; sterile, classical sets that bind and condition is another."
Bruce Lee: Dynamic Becoming by James Bishop “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
"The promise of reward has even been used to help people overcome addiction. One of the most effective intervention strategies in alcohol and drug recovery is something called the fish bowl. Patients who pass their drug tests win the opportunity to draw a slip of paper out of a bowl. About half of these slips have a prize listed on them, ranging in value from $1 to $20. Only one slip has a big prize, worth $100. Half of the slips have no prize value at all—instead, they say, “Keep up the good work.” This means that when you reach your hand into the fish bowl, the odds are you’re going to end up with a prize worth $1 or a few kind words. This shouldn’t be motivating—but it is. In one study, 83 percent of patients who had access to fish bowl rewards stayed in treatment for the whole twelve weeks, compared with only 20 percent of patients receiving standard treatment without the promise of reward. Eighty percent of the fish bowl patients passed all their drug tests, compared with only 40 percent of the standard treatment group. When the intervention was over, the fish bowl group was also far less likely to relapse than patients who received standard treatment—even without the continued promise of reward. Amazingly, the fish bowl technique works even better than paying patients for passing their drug tests—despite the fact that patients end up with far less “reward” from the fish bowl than they would from guaranteed payments. This highlights the power of an unpredictable reward. Our reward system gets much more excited about a possible big win than a guaranteed smaller reward, and it will motivate us to do whatever provides the chance to win. This is why people would rather play the lottery than earn a guaranteed 2 percent interest in a savings account, and why even the lowest employee in a company should be made to believe he could someday be the CEO." The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can DoTo Get More of It by Ph.D., Kelly McGonigal It amazes me how much people will ignore things that do not work. They will just tune the problem out, and then pretend that is has to be that way, or that is how the people in charge want it to be. They never seem to get the idea that they can change things, even though if asked or nudged, they will agree they could, maybe.
Everything changes, and since it does, you can influence that change, you can make anything change direction. It may take time, I know it will take work, and it will take disagreeing with the current process, and arguing with those afraid to change, but you can change the world around you. People seem to wait around, looking at a big problem, and hoping that somehow it either will go away, or someone else will fix it. More often than not, no one comes, the miracle doesn't happen, and you limp along never making it better. People will often act like sheep, staring at the future with blank eyes. I can't do that. I simply can't, and that means is sometimes hard to be around me, but I cannot wait for someone to fix a problem, I just have to make it happen. I am the guy who pokes a stick at the snake to see what it does. You make a decision, and if it doesn't work, then you figure out why, and do it again. You have to look for opportunities for action. How do you fix a big problem? First off it isn't a big problem. That is in your head. What is bothering you is that there are several small problems around you and you are not looking close enough, so you think there are one big one. Look closer, everything can be broken down, and then it becomes clear and simple. if you break problems down into steps and then start solving them one at a time, the problem becomes less massive, and more manageable, and things change. As things start to change, you can momentum, and suddenly everything starts to change. Everything. D |
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