Personal goal setting, tracking and mnemonic aid

摘要

#$%^&*AU2017101549A420171207.pdf#####ABSTRACT The disclosed personal goal setting, tracking and mnemonic aid helps people to easily integrate key goal setting and attainment principles naturally into their daily lives. It uses visual representations to keep goal-setters informed about their progress and reward systems to keep goal-setters focused and motivated in the long-term attainment of personal goals. The aid also helps goal-setters disaggregate long-term goals into short-term and medium-term goals. The disclosed personal goal setting, tracking and mnemonic aid is a made up of a substrate that can be affixed to a vertical surface using magnetic backing or non-permanent adhesive with a writable outer layer such that text or images written on the outer layer using a non-permanent marker can be a least substantially removed. The outer, writable surface is indelibly printed with a data table similar to the example shown in Figure 1 that sets up a structure for tracking the attainment of daily goals. The goal-setter indicates in each cell of the chart whether the goal has been achieved using removable, visual icons to indicate success or failure. The chart also scaffolds the task of setting and tracking of medium-term weekly goals, thereby breaking long-term goals into smaller milestones. Tracking goals through visual representations allows goal setters to easily monitor, assess and remedy their habitual behaviours. Goal setters can also set targets, learn the relationship between behaviours and outcomes, understand behaviours as part of a broader context, break goals into manageable steps and engage others as part of a support system. Reducing success or failure of short-term goals to their simplest possible form reduces the burden of maintaining a detailed written or numerical record, which frees the goal-setters' attention to focus on attaining their goals.