How Self-Management Becomes an Epic and Exciting Adventure When You Turn Your Life into Fun Games

If you treat your life as a fantastic collection of games you design and play, self-management stops being a chore.

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Gameful Life
Published in
10 min readOct 11, 2021

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Self-management is often regarded as a necessary chore and met with inner struggle. Oxford Dictionaries define self-management as follows:

“management of or by oneself; the taking of responsibility for one’s own behavior and well-being.”

Taking such responsibility might appear daunting, especially when self-management results in the outcome of our motivation, productivity, and engagement in daily tasks and challenges. There are ways to alleviate the weight of this responsibility and turn self-management into a joyful adventure.

One of such effective ways is Self-Gamification, a self-help approach to turning life into fun games and which brings anthropology, kaizen, and gamification into a powerful synergy fostering resourcefulness, productivity, motivation, courage, creativity, engagement, and joy.

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Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Gameful Life

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