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How Turning Life Into Fun Games Reduces Drama
How Turning Life Into Fun Games Reduces Drama
We are not — or are less — afraid of games.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Mar 4
If You Look for Happiness, Turn Your Life Into Fun Games
If You Look for Happiness, Turn Your Life Into Fun Games
Make gamefulness your lifestyle.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Mar 2
Why Obstacles Can Be Beneficial, Both in Games and in Real-Life Project
Why Obstacles Can Be Beneficial, Both in Games and in Real-Life Project
Especially when these obstacles are unnecessary
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Feb 26
How Turning Life Into Fun Games Helps You Increase Concentration and Focus
How Turning Life Into Fun Games Helps You Increase Concentration and Focus
How gamefullness and humor can help put the drama aside and enjoy each step of the way.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Feb 20
How to Use Your Prior Achievements as Joker Cards in Your Self-Motivational Games
How to Use Your Prior Achievements as Joker Cards in Your Self-Motivational Games
Yet another level of the adventures of the Super Sleeper game designer and player.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Feb 12
The Winter Is In Full Swing! Let’s Make It Gameful!
The Winter Is In Full Swing! Let’s Make It Gameful!
February 2021 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Feb 9
How to Answer Questions on Turning Life into Fun Games
How to Answer Questions on Turning Life into Fun Games
By turning answering the who, what, when, where, why & how questions into a fun, little game.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Feb 3
How Turning Life Into Games Helps Finding Back to the Happy Way of Life
How Turning Life Into Games Helps Finding Back to the Happy Way of Life
By setting aside our fears of failure and success
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Jan 26
What Is Best Turning into Fun Games and What Not?
What Is Best Turning into Fun Games and What Not?
And what do the projects really become when you turn them into games?
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Jan 18
Why and How to Turn Your Habits into Fun and Motivating Games
Why and How to Turn Your Habits into Fun and Motivating Games
The “second chance” game elements and their benefits in supporting you to maintain the habits you want to keep
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Jan 15
Happy New Year 2021! Let’s Make It Gameful!
Happy New Year 2021! Let’s Make It Gameful!
January 2021 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Jan 11
How and Why a Life Gamer Started a Diary
How and Why a Life Gamer Started a Diary
And its first entry.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Jan 5
How to Give Yourself Permission to Give Yourself Permission
How to Give Yourself Permission to Give Yourself Permission
And how to do it gamefully
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Dec 22, 2020
Building Genuine Connections by Turning Your Own Life into Fun Games
Building Genuine Connections by Turning Your Own Life into Fun Games
You’ll connect easier with others if you connect with yourself first.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Dec 15, 2020
Thank you for supporting Gameful Life!
Thank you for supporting Gameful Life!
December 2020 Newsletter by Gameful Life — a publication on how to enjoy life and live gamefully and playfully.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Dec 9, 2020
Super Sleeper: My Latest Self-Motivational Game Design
Super Sleeper: My Latest Self-Motivational Game Design
And how my son, Duolingo, stubbornness, curiosity, and awareness, help me keep up the healthy habit of getting enough sleep and have fun…
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Dec 8, 2020
The Most Important Traits of a Self-Motivational Game Designer
The Most Important Traits of a Self-Motivational Game Designer
To motivate yourself you need to understand your feelings and emotions. And for that you need to be honest, kind, and helpful to yourself.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Dec 4, 2020
Three Pearls of Wisdom and How to Make Them Actionable
Three Pearls of Wisdom and How to Make Them Actionable
Turning life into fun games as an ultimately actionable lifehack
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Dec 2, 2020
How to Be Excellent
How to Be Excellent
By being present, gameful, and playful.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Nov 27, 2020
How to Make Real-Life Rewards Truly Meaningful
How to Make Real-Life Rewards Truly Meaningful
Start with seeing whatever you are up to as a game.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Nov 16, 2020
How to Use Games and Reality for a Brilliant Chicken or Egg Causality Dilemma
How to Use Games and Reality for a Brilliant Chicken or Egg Causality Dilemma
You have the ultimate tool for that. It is your will to add dimensions to your perception.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Nov 11, 2020
5 Reasons Why Your Life Is a Jigsaw Puzzle Game
5 Reasons Why Your Life Is a Jigsaw Puzzle Game
These are just a few of many.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Nov 8, 2020
How to Play the Real-Life’s “Trivial Pursuit”
How to Play the Real-Life’s “Trivial Pursuit”
With awareness, excitement, curiosity, perseverance, intuition, color, fun, passion, and openness for surprises
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Nov 3, 2020
How to Get Inspired by Games
How to Get Inspired by Games
By looking for parallels between the games and real-life, and by applying cultural relativism
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Nov 1, 2020
How Turning Your Life into Fun Games Brightens Other People’s Day
How Turning Your Life into Fun Games Brightens Other People’s Day
Great mood and excitement are positively contageous.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
Oct 28, 2020
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