My App Idea - Balance Bar

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.