Why You Should Start Playing Your Life Right Away
Whenever you turn your life into games, in other words, practice Self-Gamification, you develop your own self-motivational games. But you also play a game. And that makes sense because whenever you design your games, you play. And whenever you play, you design. You are both the designer and player of your self-motivational games.
Don’t wait — start playing right away
Self-Gamification occurs right in this moment. Both, designing and playing your life as games also occur now. Therefore, don’t overthink turning whatever you do into games — test out the ideas you gather along the way and add your own. In other words, start playing right away, if you haven’t already. You may have done so without even realizing it, but now you can do it deliberately and intentionally, should you put your mind to it.
I fell in love with the following quote as soon as I read it.
I learned that when you play golf you’re actually supposed to play golf. It’s a game. You play it. You don’t think it. It’s before and after a round that you do your thinking, your analysis, your practicing. — James Scott Bell, The Mental Game of…
