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.
MORE IDEAS FROM THE ARTICLE
#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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On a daily basis, do something, no matter how small, which has you walking toward your vision of life. In other words, your goals.