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Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
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The “Instead Of” Game: The Briefest but Probably the Most Crucial of All Self-Motivational Games

An honest, kind, helpful, and fun approach to switching from upsets to joy and well-being — I love turning my life and anything that composes it into fun games. I call the result of this process a self-motivational game. What Are Self-Motivational Games and Their Types? The multidimensional relationship between the result of turning something into fun games and its sourcemedium.com My newest self-motivational game design is the “Instead Of” Game or simply Instead Game. I played it for the first time on November 6, 2021.

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The “Instead Of” Game: The Briefest but Probably the Most Crucial of All Self-Motivational Games
The “Instead Of” Game: The Briefest but Probably the Most Crucial of All Self-Motivational Games
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Everything Is a Game; We Just Don’t See It That Way

And how we can — There is a famous definition of games by Jane McGonigal. She says that: “When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.” — Jane McGonigal, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better…

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Everything Is a Game; We Just Don’t See It That Way
Everything Is a Game; We Just Don’t See It That Way
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Gameful Life

·Aug 17

I Am Not Jumping From One Task to Another. I Am Following My Fun Detecting Antenna.

The clue is to be aware. All. The. Time. And if I stop being aware, I become aware of that too and return to playing the Awareness Booster Game. — I rediscovered the wisdom of the following quote today: “Even small signs that you are resisting the small step — that you are having to push yourself to do the step — are an indication that the step is too big[.]” — Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your…

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I Am Not Jumping From One Task to Another. I Am Following My Fun Detecting Antenna.
I Am Not Jumping From One Task to Another. I Am Following My Fun Detecting Antenna.
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·Aug 4

Exploring the Definition of and Ways to Navigate Life

And how games can help us with that — “Life, she decided as she settled down to sketch a line of foxglove on the banks of the stream, was a wonderful thing. And now, finally, she was beginning to live it.” — Nora Roberts, Enchanted (The Donovan Legacy series) I discovered the quote above in a book by my…

Life

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Exploring the Definition of and Ways to Navigate Life
Exploring the Definition of and Ways to Navigate Life
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·Jun 13

Where Is the Best Place to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?

The answer to this question is paradoxical. It is both limitless and exclusive. — So, where is the best place to turn your habits into fun games? Where should you be to have the most success at it? The answer to this question is paradoxical. It is both limitless and exclusive. Here’s how. On the one hand, since there is no “wrong” habit to…

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Where Is the Best Place to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?
Where Is the Best Place to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?
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Gameful Life

·Apr 27

When Is The Best Point in Time to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?

Short answer: Always and now. — When is it time to turn habits into fun games? The answer to this question is similar to the one for the “What?” question. What Habits or Activities Can Be Turned into Fun Games? A very short but comprehensive answermedium.com You can always turn a habit or anything else into fun games. If you are in the flow, then you already turned the activity you are…

Habits

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When Is The Best Point in Time to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?
When Is The Best Point in Time to Turn Your Habits into Fun Games?
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·Jan 20

Who Should Turn Their Habits and Life into Fun Games, and Who are They Best to Look up to?

As with all paradoxical things in our lives, the answers to this two-fold question might seem both simple and complex. — Who is turning habits and life into fun games for? And who could we be looking up to in this regard? Here are some possible answers to these two questions. Who is turning habits and life into fun games for? This question can be answered as follows: Turning habits and life into games is for anyone who wants to make…

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Who Should Turn Their Habits and Life into Fun Games, and Who are They Best to Look up to?
Who Should Turn Their Habits and Life into Fun Games, and Who are They Best to Look up to?
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·Dec 20, 2022

What Habits or Activities Can Be Turned into Fun Games?

A very short but comprehensive answer — Any project or activity, and any habit representing or comprising it, can be turned into fun games. The best candidates are those you procrastinate about but want to pursue. You can also turn the behaviors you want to avoid or do less often into fun games by limiting the rewards…

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What Habits or Activities Can Be Turned into Fun Games?
What Habits or Activities Can Be Turned into Fun Games?
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·Nov 12, 2022

What Can You Do When There Is a Gap in Maintaining a Healthy Habit?

Use these two simple practices — There is no game that someone plays 24/7 except perhaps the game of life. In the traditional sense, we play and enjoy games and then leave them at least temporarily to do something else. The same is bound to happen with the habits we maintain. What does leaving a game at will mean? Leaving a game or an…

Habits

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What Can You Do When There Is a Gap in Maintaining a Healthy Habit?
What Can You Do When There Is a Gap in Maintaining a Healthy Habit?
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·Oct 17, 2022

One Surprising Feature of Games That Might Radically Change Your Outlook on Life

And this feature is boredom — When I was writing my longest book so far on turning life into fun games, Self-Gamification Happiness Formula: How to Turn Your Life into Fun Games, I discovered the following statement by one of the biggest authorities on matters of fun and games, Raph Koster: “[T]he destiny of games is…

Fun

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One Surprising Feature of Games That Might Radically Change Your Outlook on Life
One Surprising Feature of Games That Might Radically Change Your Outlook on Life
Fun

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Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels

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Life gamer, life coach, author, engineer; originator of Self-Gamification — an art of turning life into fun games → optimistwriter.com

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