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Why 'The
Monkey'?
Sitting at home
with a good friend of mine (Steve Hancock's), we
were trying to think of a good name for the program.
Thanks to Steve's inspirational talent for really
'thinking out of ones box', somehow The Monkey came
along. Straight away, we were inserting phrases
like 'being paid peanuts', 'It's monkey business',
'getting the monkey off your back' etc, into virtually
any sentence that came along.
As
crazy as it sounds, I
just knew at this point, this is what the program
had to be called. I say crazy, because who calls
a piece of software they want taking seriously
'The Monkey'? However, it soon became easy to
relate a Monkey to the program. I could see the
way that most of us organize our lives and finances
from day to day is very similar to those famous
three 'wise' monkeys.
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See
No Evil:
This
monkey reminded me of the way a lot of us 'hide'
those letters and things that need doing. Those
things we can't face today, always thinking tomorrow
will be a better day to sort it all out.
Some people do this subconsciously, blanking things
out. Some people do it more blatantly, hiding letters
and things behind tea-pots or putting it in the
'to be dealt with later' pile. I'm sure this type
of monkey, deep down thinks, "If I just close
my eyes long enough, it'll all go away..."
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Hear
No Evil:
How many times have we
closed our ears to good advice? As children we are
so often told that we should 'Save for a rainy day',
'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look
after themselves' or how about 'Neither a borrower,
nor a lender be'.
Of course, it's not just money that we have a saying
or two, it applies to the the things we have to
do and places we have to be. How about, 'Don't put
off till tomorrow what you can do today'?
I suspect though, in the case of most naughty monkey's
it's probably a case of 'Don't do today what you
can put off till tomorrow!'
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Speak
No Evil:
People don't openly boast if they're in debt or
how they may be struggling to make the payments
each month, it feels like a very private thing for
obvious reasons.
People don't talk enough when they're financially
in trouble, not even to the people they say they
love the most. Most people prefer to wait till they
cannot hide it anymore and by that time, it's usually
ten times worse than it may have been. Don't hesitate
if you're in trouble do
something about it today!
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Which type
of monkey are you?
I'm sure most us
at some point in our lives, will have seen one,
if not all of these monkey's closer than we'd like.
And this is what the program is all about. As the
Credit Crunch bites, the pace of life quickens,
then so does the paperwork, the bills and all the
other things we have to do and places we have to
be every day.
The
idea of The Monkey is to have a single point of
reference for all the things you have to deal
with on a day-to-day basis. Just one place to
put everything in and just one place to get everything
out. Just enter the bills, letters, payments,
appointments, tasks - anything you need to keep
track of and The Monkey then tells you exactly
what needs to be done every day and what bills
we need to be paid. Simple.
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