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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?
Short answer: Always and now.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Apr 27
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?
As with all paradoxical things in our lives, the answers to this two-fold question might seem both simple and complex.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Jan 20
What Habits or Activities Can Be Turned into Fun Games?
What Habits or Activities Can Be Turned into Fun Games?
A very short but comprehensive answer
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Dec 20, 2022
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?
Use these two simple practices
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Nov 12, 2022
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
And this feature is boredom
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Oct 17, 2022
The (Probably) Last Newsletter But Not the Last Article
The (Probably) Last Newsletter But Not the Last Article
September 2022 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Sep 24, 2022
The Shiny Object Syndrome and Why It Is Not That Bad When Looked Through the Lense of Games
The Shiny Object Syndrome and Why It Is Not That Bad When Looked Through the Lense of Games
We can use our yearning for something new and shiny to spruce up what lost its shine in our perception.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Sep 21, 2022
We Can’t Educate Our Children. But We Can Help Them Grow.
We Can’t Educate Our Children. But We Can Help Them Grow.
And help ourselves to grow along with them.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Sep 8, 2022
Varying Rhythms
Varying Rhythms
August 2022 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Aug 30, 2022
What Are Ambition Projects Games? And How Do They Add to Balance in Life?
What Are Ambition Projects Games? And How Do They Add to Balance in Life?
Ambition is not an antonym of balance. It is its component.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Aug 17, 2022
How to Turn Work into Fun Games and Never Feel Like Hard Working Again
How to Turn Work into Fun Games and Never Feel Like Hard Working Again
Or how to approach your work-life as a brilliant designer and an eager player and have the time of your life.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Aug 8, 2022
My Reading Game and Why I Treat One of My All-Time Favorite Activities as a Game
My Reading Game and Why I Treat One of My All-Time Favorite Activities as a Game
And how I design and play it
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Jul 28, 2022
A Month of 1001 Epiphanies
A Month of 1001 Epiphanies
June 2022 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Jun 22, 2022
Enjoying the JOMO
Enjoying the JOMO
Missing out and concentrating on what we really want
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Jun 17, 2022
What Can You Do When Nothing Else Works?
What Can You Do When Nothing Else Works?
Why I started approaching a health challenge gamefully
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Jun 16, 2022
Starting and Progressing Simple
Starting and Progressing Simple
May 2022 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
May 24, 2022
Experience Points in Real Life
Experience Points in Real Life
How to bank, appreciate, and enjoy them.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
May 19, 2022
If You Struggle with the Word “Scope,” Think of a Telescope
If You Struggle with the Word “Scope,” Think of a Telescope
How gamefulness can help you understand complex concepts
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
May 12, 2022
5 Reasons Why the 5 Minute Perseverance Game Is One of My All-Time Favorite Self-Motivational Games
5 Reasons Why the 5 Minute Perseverance Game Is One of My All-Time Favorite Self-Motivational Games
And has the potential to become yours too
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
May 5, 2022
The Illusions and Truths about the Holidays
The Illusions and Truths about the Holidays
April 2022 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Apr 26, 2022
No Smiles Allowed Game and Why You Both Lose and Win in It
No Smiles Allowed Game and Why You Both Lose and Win in It
And how it works both as a single and a multiplayer game
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Apr 5, 2022
Preparing for New Beginnings
Preparing for New Beginnings
March 2022 Newsletter by Gameful Life
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Mar 19, 2022
What Does Turning Life into Games Mean?
What Does Turning Life into Games Mean?
Adjusting the angle, we view life from blurry and unsatisfied to clear, engaged, and gameful.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Mar 18, 2022
How to Turn Exercising with Aching Joints into Fun and Joyful Games
How to Turn Exercising with Aching Joints into Fun and Joyful Games
It starts with being kind to oneself
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Mar 10, 2022
The Project Race — A Very Special Self-Motivational Game
The Project Race — A Very Special Self-Motivational Game
A paradoxical game with a stressful name and a balancing nature
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Mar 3, 2022
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