Rebooted? Rebranded? Reborn? Yes.

Mark! I know what those icons are… a dizygotic twin! The Simpleology logo has delivered two babies! If you look carefully to the present logo, you see: (1) a square of which (2) the first part is red and the (2) second part is blue (3) and in between you see a womb… nurturing qubes! You know it`s true, don`t you?

Multi-device synchronization 

Or maybe it’s just the Pizza button….hit it and Domino’s are at your door in 30 mins

Tool to organize tasks by time management matrix, then call up the “Not Urgent, Important” tasks for priority action.

Sing it:
One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?
….

A very big change in our life. Transforming from a steady zone to something creative and new.

time management and innovation?

four types of to-do’s. The one thing that seems to be missing is easy classification of items so that the important get done first.  (urgent, unrgent/important, unrgent/not-important, and important). maybe one of the parts is tipped so that we realize it may somehow be a part (connect) of our lives, but not part of a congruent picture….. or it’s just an icon indicating that I am going to appear “off my rocker” to the group of professionals I introduced to Simpleology last week or the business class I introduced it to this morning.  When they go looking for Simpleology.com and don’t find it, I’m sure my credibility will “fall off”. 

Ah ha! Four phases of life; Career, Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. 

Blue & White Square Guy: Ah, yes. You are now under my control.
Frankie: I am now under your control.
Blue & White Square Guy laughs;
Frankie does monotone laughing.
Blue & White Square Guy: Stop laughing.
Frankie: Stop laughing.
Blue & White Square Guy: Don’t repeat everything I say.
Frankie: I won’t repeat everything you say.
Blue & White Square Guy: Excellent.
Frankie: Excellent.
Blue & White Square Guy: Uh, did you just say “excellent” because I said “excellent”?
Frankie: Uh, no.
Blue & White Square Guy: Excellent.
Frankie: Excellent.

One side is the Universe complete.  The other side shows you’re doing it wrong.

The blue one could possibly be the TARDIS as well.

Best guess: Harmonizing activities with your long-term focus.
Also: Tracking and addressing activities that sabotage your focus.

Or maybe it’s the new Core Course, Pack Rat 201, and the icons are for the How Not To Get Crushed By Falling Boxes In The Attic lesson.

Synchronized / Unsychronized

Tool for applying the DISC model to improve effectiveness in reaching goals. D in the top right quadrant stands for Directing: Get things done by taking on tasks with decisiveness and determination, overcoming barriers.
 
Okay, play time’s over. Now I have to put the blocks back in the box and get on with my to do list.

The white box represents things that have been organized and categorized already. The blue is what you are where you need to start.

The boxes stand for tasks you complete that together build a long-term goal.
IN the left icon, all the tasks for the goal are completed, in the right icon, one task is still not completed, which is why it’s in a 45 degree angle and the boxes are still blue; when all are completed they will become white.
 
 

Or there are three man an one women, and the third guy’s got the foxy lady, and now the two lefties are all white from anger… and the other two… are just blue… don’t be racist…
 

Mental lockbox, Daily targets, Dream Catcher, Delegation Station. Whichever you have open, it turns sideways. And/OR Longterm, short term, medium focus, and trackers — whichever you have open, it turns sideways, making it easier to navigate between all of them and can be done from your phone.
 
On the other hand, it could be housing clusters where the builder went belly up and had one lot left. Someone came along who just dared to be different, driving the entire home owners association into such a tizzy that they sent so many notices to that individual that she glued them to the other houses in her area and painted them all blue during the night while everyone was asleep (with the help of some friends from out of town, of course). It turned out that the blue paint had this special shimmering quality to it and once the initial shock wore off, everyone loved it. They wanted to turn their house in different directions, too, and they ran the old home owners association board out of town! Then she shared that the whole thing was managed through her Simpleology account, including the Delegation Station, and everyone immediately signed up for Simpleology (under the new name, of course) and brought lots of great ideas to fruition in the neighborhood as a result. (For more on that story…

The first four boxes represent BROWSER ADD-ON, DAILY TARGETS,  DREAM CATCHER, & GET RESULTS.  The blue boxes represent the new items of NEWS,  - prioritization, PRODUCTIVITY,  REMINDERS, And the tilted one would be START MY DAY , cause we start each day with new goals, news &  we see these all through the Wimiki Windows shown above!  :o)    

left side: Mental lockboxright side: bring something from the Mental lockbox to the Daily targets 

Now for the funny one the four white boxes represent the white collar workers, all going to work, all following the same mold.  The blue collar workers are represented by the blue boxes and as we see three of them are following the same work hard and you’ll get ahead mold too.  However the tilted one represents the 1- 2 % ers who have learned to think outside the box to create financial frrdom for their families by taking risks and actions that the other 99% are afraid to take.   As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You may never know what results come from your action.  But if you do nothing there will be no result.”

when i was just a little boy my mother gave me four empty boxes…she said, “son, these boxes contain everything you will ever need to get through life”…
 
…then she said, “be patient my son, next week i will show you how to open them”.

I want Elite Free For A Whole Year!
 
BTW- I have no idea, it’s a NEW feature and both icons represent it; seems like it would have to do with Major Focus, short term, medium and long term, with achievements being the askew box, but what’s new about that?  maybe the definition and tracking?  can’t wait to hear the answer!!!

A fourth source of power: Time, Energy, Money . . . and Knowledge

A visual way to plot out short, medium and long term goals.
 

Represents the money-making systems: Employee; Self-Employed; Entrepreneurial; REal – where the entrepreneurial system is emphasized (represented by the rhombus in the blue diagram) because all other systems derive from it.
 

Which 2 Icons – there are 8 icons and if you count the cartoon guy that makes 9 icons.  If I had to guess I would say the 4 white squares represent 4 white squares and the 3 blue squares represent 3 blue squares and the 1 tilted blue square represents 1 tilted blue square and the cartoon guy represents Mark Joyner.  Or it could be the White group is My Day and in that group is Start, Targets, Catcher & Lockbox and the Blue group is My Life and in that is Stuff, Focus, Trackers & Lists.  I’m also very certain the new, more pronounceable name is, “Simcomplexidogigolothismology”.    

The black icon is the old simpleology and the blue one the new. One square doesn´t  match representing a new way to make the things, not following standars.
 
 

The two icons we’re created to generate new ideas for features you could add from a flood of comments.

Good strategy mark to get ideas (name) or making your idea better, an approach to see if your new logo/icons are making sense to user.I call it your backward planning for reborn Simpleology. ……… Kuldeep “GOT IT RIGHT” Singh 

Oh  Mark Joyner , you’re such a tease!
The only thing I can guess right now is the white four boxes represent something fixed and the blue boxes represent something customizable (the turned square) or accept the default settings (the three other squares). Now the only thing I can almost fit into that is the ability to categorize our targets as relating to time, energy or money, or a user-defined label (a feature request I submitted). However, I would then not know of the significance of the four white normal squares so I am doubtful that is correct.
Ooh, this is going to be bugging me all day! Please say we don’t need to wait a few months to get the answer!!!

4 white squares, default view, blue squares , customized view .
OR    4 white squares free version, 4 blue squares elite version ..
 
OR this is a  Simpleology 4 hand poker game for members to play after their brains have been dumped.
 
The new name: 
‘Simple for Dummies’   or
‘The Simple Life’    or
Simple All La La Gee  (easier to pronounce)
 
 

there is no doubt – this new functionality is for enlightening important and not urgent things in Eisenhower matix

Tipping Point
As I think it would be very appropriate in what we all are trying to achieve. 

Start my day normal or with mindmap

Free start my day, pro and or  elite start my day

This looks like you are integrating the time management quadrants Stephen Covey (RIP) mentions into your system, with quadrant 2 (the important but not urgent things in life) being emphasised by its different orientation on the right. As Covey puts it, it’s a feature intended to help us put ‘first things first’ consistently in our lives by getting the ‘big rocks’ in place first.

Featuring an EDGE UP to Going from ZERO to FULL Throttle – and a Uniquely Fulfilled Life

Its a new feature that allows you to rise up and obtain Moksha from the enlightenment you get from using this awesome system

You’re going to put first things first in order to empower people.  “By attending to one’s personal responsibilities first, an individual is better positioned to shoulder collective responsibilities.” Perhaps by taking care of what is important first will free up time for when urgent matters present themselves.   A new way of thinking and prioritizing. 

I meant HIME – “Hi Impact, Minimum Effort”, of course.
Although MIME – “Maximum Impact, Minimum Effort” also works
 
 
“Must be connected to the MIME protocol, so an upgrade to add mime functionality maybe.
But why white and slighlty different blue?
Maybe a free, white version, and an all-singing-all dancing, blue pro version?”

Balance in your life

Four quadrants from 7 habits

nonconcentrically tweakable

Mind blocks listing (4) and Mind Blocks eliminating  
 

The left is what’s working in your life that you want to keep. The right is what you need to tweak to get you where you want to go.

I’m no square I’m a diamond

We will be able to install applications from simpleology market, either from simpleology developers, or open market, any developer can list his app or plugin.

the icons represent breaking tasks down into manageable steps and taking one step at a time
 

Tools to stay focused on your task.

Features that will help you market your websites.

Select one of my key objectives to work on!
 Alternatively its a reminder, “If I don’t put these storage boxes in the garage I will have no room in the house”

We do new a ‘new button’ which is not ‘deliberate then schedule’ but ‘put into my long finger box’ and one day a week I have to take one of my long fingered items out of the box and put into the ‘Do it now’ category. Because I want this feature I am going to say this icon means what I want !

First set of squares represent the… Daily Targets Practice CUBEs  -&&&&- Second set represent the UNFINISHED Daily Targets Practice CUBEs
 
For the fun part… The square that cannot sit in place, is because it has hemorroids….  SMILE:-)

Building blocks and decisions to made leading to more building blocks for what you need to do to succeed.

How the icons in an app will work
 

Blue: Sub-goals that are part of solving a problem and completing a goal, but don’t really fit together.
White: Sub-goals that do fit together.

White squares – priorities for different aspects
Blue squares – the ones you’re working on today
The blue diamond – the first one you’re working on
 

Thinking outside the box???
 
ha ha ha
 

Rebooting is always a good thing! In fact, that’s part of the concept of simpler living in my experience – shedding what no longer is useful, refining the things that are, adding something new as things become more clear. Kudos and congrats!!! 

And, given the HIME connection, I’d also guess that the top right hand corner of the blue group, being where your attention should be focussed – on the tasks with the Highest Impact, Minumum Effort, is a diamond shape specifically to help you focus on those. The high value diamondon connotation, plus the differentiation by the shape.
 
Still wondering about the white and blue though. Not sure if my first guess of regular vs Elite is anywhere close. Could be those Power (vs regular) Features you mention, especially given your use of a similar colour in the cartoon. Or could it be that the progress to the power features will be available to everybody, and they are evolving from white (current/regular) to blue (future/power)?
 
 

Hi Mark,
Too busy getting on with things that matter to comment (Thank you ;-)).
Chris

Hi Mark I’m guessing Diamond Blueprint, perhaps a name of a feature, but I’m not quite sure what it is. If I were doing a cryptic crossword this would be my guess. Hey Mark, I love Simpleology with or without the changes. I recommend to everyone to use this awesome tool to simplify their lives to the max
- Keep up the great work!

Without a doubt…
This is Mark’s greatest invention yet.
 
A true blessing to the world. Finally a remedy to a growing populationof outcasts, a suffering population of  individuals who practice things unimaginable to some,things that would make you skin crawl and your stomach turn…
 
….. SUDOKU ADDICTS.
 
There I said it… SUDOKU ADDICTS    $#@!  …..       Salvation is yours.
 
With these new features you will be able to finally rid yourself
of this heinous habit and once again use the toilet for the purpose god intended. 
Thank you Mark for this gracious wonderful gift.  
 

Updated Lists and/or trackers with deadline setting?

Inputting chaos and outputting clarity.

Daily Targets and Braindump…
or…
Braindump and Lockbox…
Confusion in, Clarity Out…

This is a sign that Lex Luthor really created Simpleology and is now taking over the real world! Did anyone else get a Lex Luthor vibe from the guy presenting the changes? Mark Joyner, I’ve found out your secret identity! 

New “Stuff I want” and Major Focus feature?  Breaking them down into actionable parts?

This comment will win for accuracy as well as humor:
 
The background is from the Xray specs we all bought as kids so we could see through girls’ clothes.  (Go figure, it didn’t work)
 
The white squares symbolize order done the way it should be.  (in a non creative sense) The blue squares represent a new way of organizing for those of us who are not completely linear. 
 
I’m also envisioning Steven Covey’s quadrants with Quadrant #2 (Important, but not urgent) being popped out to symbolize it’s significance.
 
It would be great if the tool centered around that with ways to help make Quadrant 2 activities take priority.  That’s where life really happens, as well as success and fulfillment.
 
Thanks for reading…now how do I get my free year of Elite?
 
Go Mark Go!
 
SZ

maybe they represent exercises to keep our brains sharp. The white ones for the exercises we have done and the blue for those not yet attempted.

White boxes to keep you on track, blue boxes to help you think outside the box.
 

1: clarity and focus
2: out of the box

(Sigh). Until you give us the answer, I’m going to have to keep on trying to guess.
 
A new function for the backward planner app on the major focus/my life section. You can add deadlines and timescales to backward planner tasks which auto add directly to Daily Targets.

The white and blue squares are for integrating your Simpleology Targets locally.  So if one of my Targets is to get a job in my town, this will integrate with local listings as I set it up. Or if I buy pet food for my cat in my town, it will show up on my smartphone or tablet’s Simpelology interface with geo-location looking it up and from there you can get directions. Then when you walk into the store it will note this (as with Foursquare and similar apps) and if you have automatic logging of purchases or photo-receipt logging, it will note this as well and check off your target box as well, as having been done. Or if I need to go to the post office, bank, or library, there will be a way to set these up for integration as well. This will show up, also, on the home interface (laptop, etc.)

The background is the geo-location and the “looking for” people for Systems Leverage for people, businesses, others with similar interests on Simpleology and through the larger networks of social media. Ping…ping….ping…
I kinda like the X-Ray Specs idea, though.

The new feature filters your thoughts, ideas and to-dos in “Start My Day” by sorting them according to the four quadrants of the Time Management Matrix (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey) and aligning those thoughts, ideas and to-dos that help you achieve your goals with Quadrant II (Not Urgent But Important), the heart of effective personal management. The feature will help you maintain a proper balance of your “Daily Targets” to effectively achieve the “Stuff I Want.”

Scheduled tasks, the white orderly squares mean no scheduled tasks are ready but the blue with the skewed square means you have scheduled tasks to do.

Eating the box

The unbalanced square shows the singularity of thinking or individuality of seeing reality. The 2 set of 4 squares is the transformation from one state to another, with the other having the doted singularity obtained. 4 squares defenitely give more stability than triangles or circles. Nevertheless squares are still giving the idea of frames, not “order”, so I like the idea of something sticking out – that I rather see as singularity. Blue is often associated with lenguage/words/communication/flow/sequence/progress – just first thoughts..YR

Square peg. Square hole. Building blocks.