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Gamifying My Life
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Developing Your Own Life Game
- Live the game you dream.
- Make your own Playbook. Identify the “epic players”, the current “quests”, the “bosses” and the “countermoves” in beating them.
- Experiment a reward system. Give points to every milestone and collect “loots” in the form of predetermined rewards.
- Create your “dashboard” for detailed project planning.
- Keep your game simple. Do not load it with too many and complicated rules and quests.
- Pause for a while to regain your energy. Sticking to the game is more valuable than heroic bursts followed by inaction.
- Design it beautifully to be inspired to play it.
- Revisit and refine your game, improve your Playbook.
- Define boundaries. Don’t be a game addict.
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Gamify Your Life Cheat Codes
#1: Define your success and failure norms.
#2: Measure your progress with numbers.
#3: Assign rewards and punishments for every outcome.
#4: Keep your game simple.
#5: Go for the win!
#6: Make your game beautiful and be inspired to play it.
#7: Know when you're in-game and when you're chilling.
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Tips For Finding The Right Goals
- Listen to your discontent. It tells you when something is wrong. And that could be the thing you need to correct.
- Combine it with something that inspires y...
Chris Guillebeau
"Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn’t exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority."
What Happens After You Achieve Your Goals
If the goal is meaningful, it will transform you. You’ll be more confident, mature, capable of seeing even bigger adventures, and empowered to pursue them.
A quest might end better than we imagine or disastrously. Either way, there’s always another adventure if we’re willing to pursue it.