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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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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?
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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…
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    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.
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    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
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    Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
    Dec 2, 2020
    How to Be Excellent

    How to Be Excellent

    By being present, gameful, and playful.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Ph.D.
    Oct 28, 2020
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