System and method for facilitating personal development using a computing device

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating personal development using a computing device. The method includes generating a machine-readable foundation profile by performing sub-steps including querying a user through a user interface module and providing a user access to an education module and a discovery module. The sub-steps include storing answers to queries in association with a user. The method also includes guiding a user through a process of issue resolution by querying a user in regards to a specific situation and teaching a user in regards to taking responsibility for their feelings. The sub-steps include teaching a user about having an intent to learn and managing an inner guidance dialogue within the user. The method further includes facilitating a user taking action by displaying an intended action from the action profile, and teaching the user how to productively take action and facilitating self-evaluation by the user.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for facilitating personal development using a computing device by providing non-transitory machine-readable instructions on a tangible medium to perform steps, comprising:
 a) generating a machine-readable foundation profile by performing sub-steps, including:
 i) querying a user through a user interface module in regards to facts about themselves including their false beliefs; 
 ii) providing a user access to an education module and a discovery module through context relevant links during a querying process; 
 iii) storing answers to queries in association with a user as a foundation profile in a memory storage module of a discovery module; and 
   b) guiding a user through a process of issue resolution by a module that performs sub-steps, including:
 i) querying a user in regards to a specific situation, storing answers to such queries as a machine-readable situation profile; 
 ii) teaching a user in regards to taking responsibility for their feelings, querying a user about their feelings in regards to the situation profile, and storing answers to such queries as a machine-readable feeling profile associated with the situation profile; 
 iii) teaching a user about having an intent to learn by displaying media related thereto; 
 iv) managing a self-dialogue within the user by displaying, on a display device, an answer stored in the feeling profile, querying a user about the displayed answer, querying a user about the actions and beliefs that are associated with the displayed answer, and teaching the user techniques for productive self-dialogue; 
 v) managing an inner guidance dialogue within the user by teaching the user techniques for productive inner guidance dialogue, displaying an answer stored in any one of the foundation profile, situation profile, and feelings profile, querying the user about solutions associated with the displayed answer, suggesting a plurality of actions, and storing a representation of an intended action as a machine-readable action profile; 
 vi) facilitating a user taking action by displaying an intended action from the action profile, and teaching the user how to productively take action; and 
 vii) facilitating self-evaluation by the user of the effectiveness of a taken action by teaching the user about effective actions, and querying the user about the feelings resulting from the taken action. 
   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising displaying at least one answer from the situation profile as a header during performance of a sub-step of guiding a user through a process of conflict resolution. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein specific sub-steps are performed only on user activation of the same. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising generating and displaying a link to a sub-step associated with the generation of an incomplete profile when a sub-step attempts to display data from the incomplete profile. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising recording completed sub-steps as machine-readable tracking profile. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising storing a display page history including an index of recently displayed interface pages and providing a user selectable interface that returns the display to a previously displayed interface page. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the user interface module is platform independent. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising providing a link to an audio file including a visualization exercise. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a step of querying includes providing a list of non-exclusively selectable answers. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a step of querying includes providing a free answer form. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising the step of providing a master interface configured to permit a user to navigate between sub-steps, the master interface including a bookmark module configured to selectably record a page location for later retrieval. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising providing access to a multimedia educational module. 
     
     
         13 . A method for facilitating personal development using a computing device by providing non-transitory machine-readable instructions on a tangible medium to perform steps, comprising:
 a) generating a machine-readable foundation profile;   b) guiding a user through a process of issue resolution by a module that performs sub-steps through a user interface module of a computing device that permits a user to selectably cause a processor of the computing device to direct performance of such sub-steps, including:
 i) querying a user in regards to a specific situation, storing answers to such queries as a machine-readable situation profile; 
 ii) querying a user about their feelings in regards to the situation profile, and storing answers to such queries as a machine-readable feeling profile associated with the situation profile; 
 iii) managing a self-dialogue within the user by displaying, on a display device, an answer stored in the feeling profile, and querying a user about the displayed answer; and 
 iv) managing an inner guidance dialogue within the user by displaying an answer stored in any one of the foundation profile, situation profile, and feelings profile, querying the user about solutions associated with the displayed answer, and storing a representation of an intended action as a machine-readable action profile. 
   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , further comprising displaying at least one answer from the situation profile as a header during performance of a sub-step of guiding a user through a process of conflict resolution. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , further comprising generating and displaying a link to a sub-step associated with the generation of an incomplete profile when a sub-step attempts to display data from the incomplete profile. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , further comprising recording completed sub-steps as machine-readable tracking profile and storing a display page history including an index of recently displayed interface pages and providing a user selectable interface that returns the display to a previously displayed interface page. 
     
     
         17 . A system for facilitating personal development using a computing device, including:
 a) a user interface module configured to provide interactive access to the system to a user, the user interface module including:
 i) an input module configured to receive data from an input device, process such data on a processor and thereby deliver user instructions to the system; 
 ii) a return module configured to permit a user to selectably return a display to a previously viewed display page, the return module including a graphical object linked to a return command configured to display a previously viewed display page; 
 iii) a sequence management module functionally coupled to the discovery module and the education module and configured to track module usage; and 
 iv) a module socket module configured to provide user access to a plurality of additional content modules; 
   b) a discovery module operatively coupled to the user interface module and configured to extract and store information from a user, the discovery module including:
 i) a query module configured to serve a plurality of questions and receive answers to the same; 
 ii) a query linking module functionally coupled to the query module and configured to sequence a plurality of questions; 
 iii) a data storage module in communication with the query module and configured to store answers; and 
 iv) a usage recording module functionally coupled to the query module and configured to store completion data regarding asked questions; and 
   c) an education module operatively coupled to the user interface module and configured to educate a user, the education module including:
 i) a dictionary module configured to serve definitional information on request; and 
 ii) a reference module configured to serve reference information upon request. 
   
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 17 , further comprising a conditioning module operatively coupled to the user interface module and configured to influence a user, the conditioning module including:
 a) a media module including a plurality of media files;   b) a media linking module functionally coupled to the media module and configured to sequence a plurality of media files; and   c) a usage recording module functionally coupled to the media module and configured to store completion data regarding served media files.   
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 17 , wherein the user interface module further includes a media module including a plurality of media files, a user account module configured to store user information and limit access to the same through a security process, a data storage module configured to store data, and a skin module configured to selectably manage display of a plurality of image files decorating the user interface. 
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 17 , wherein the discovery module further includes a customization module configured to read a user characteristic from a user profile and selectably deliver a subset of question phrasings adapted to the user characteristic.