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Life is short, but all too often we get caught up in the day
to day minutiae and lose sight of the bigger picture - those things we truly value and want to
accomplish with our lives - before it's too late. Well with Mentations®, we can finally regain
that focus and achieve holistic life balance.
Just like a car's dashboard helps you monitor
its performance, Mentations is a dashboard for your life, helping you
assess and manage your
life performance. We no longer have to wonder about how we're
doing with regard to the many facets of our lives. At a glance, you can
see your personal vision for all areas
of your life, what your "roles and goals" are, and how you're performing with regard to all of
them.
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Mentations Dashboard - Country Cottage Theme |
You might be thinking, "Sounds great but how am I supposed to get organized enough to even
know where to begin?" Well, no
need to worry - the first time you run Mentations you will be
introduced to the Mentations Modeler (i.e., life designer). It provides the structure you need to
get your thoughts in order. You'll have step-by-step guidance on the types of things to input. Design/model your life all at once or in bite-sized chunks - the choice is yours.
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Design/Model Your Life with the Mentations Modeler |
Within the Modeler, input your roles and goals with related targets for each. Then, at regular
intervals of your choosing (daily, weekly, etc.),
Mentations will prompt you for your progress
on each of them. You will be able to see via "sparklines" how you've been doing. Can you see
the advantage of being reminded about the important goals in your life at regular intervals, as
well as knowing how you are doing at any time in relation to them?
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Self-Input Data Entry Prompt |
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Update Your Statistics in the Mentations Data Entry Window |
Of course, there are other areas that impact your life besides those fully under your control. This is why we also give you the opportunity while in the Modeler to include other "special"
categories of information including weather, news, interests, and relationships. By including
both internally governed areas like your career, personal health, etc. along with externally
driven ones like news and weather, Mentations allows you to build an overall representation of
your life!
All of these personally selected areas
of interest get combined into an integrated interface using a
theme of your choosing. Then, using a concept known as "ambient information visualization",
Mentations delivers information at a glance via "dynamic pictures"; images related to individual categories
are displayed that correspond to how you are currently doing in relation to them - either good,
fair, or bad. Mentations will then aggregate
each category's current status and average them together to calculate an overall status for you. This total "performance
rating" gets displayed in the title bar of the application to
provide instant feedback.
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Mentations Delivers Information at a Glance via "Dynamic Pictures" |
We all know that spending time with friends and extended family
is important. However, we're also
aware of how limited our time is with families to care
for, jobs to perform, obligations to fulfill, and, as Robert Frost penned, "miles to go before
we sleep". That's why we've baked in the capability to share how you're currently doing with
those important people in your life. You can
also, in turn, see how they're doing when they use Mentations too. You can
even choose to include any
personal comments on items of interest using the integrated "Thoughts" microblogging tool. Wouldn't it be comforting to know how your
loved ones are doing at any point without
always needing to carve out time from your busy schedule or interrupt theirs?
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Stay in Touch using the Mentations Relationship Window |
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Share Your Thoughts using the Mentations Thoughts Window |
We are often asked when is the optimal time to run Mentations, morning or evening? Our answer is
always the same - both! To get the most benefit from this service, you should let the
application run throughout the day. Just minimize it to your taskbar or let it run discreetly
in your system tray when you're not actively using it. By doing so, it can feed you near
real-time alerts on changing information as well as prompt you for your progress on previously
established goals. In addition, Mentations comes with an associated screensaver. When activated,
it allows Mentations to jump to the forefront of your display. Use it to keep your overarching
life goals in the forefront of your mind.
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Mentations Running in System Tray |
If you get stuck and need help modeling the life you have, or designing the life you want, we
are always here to help. Don't hesitate to contact us! For in-depth consultations, we can even
put you in touch with a certified life coach knowledgeable in how to use Mentations to help you
achieve holistic life balance.
In summary, life is short - get Mentations to help you manage it.
Leave a legacy worthy of your
effort. As Stephen Covey so eloquently expresses it, put "first things first"! Doesn't it make
sense to give Mentations a try when so much is at stake?
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