I am an avid life-gamer. That means that I live my life as if it was a huge and exciting collection of fun games. In the process of turning my life into games, an approach emerged, which with time I started calling self-gamification.
Self-gamification is a unique self-help approach combining three brilliant methods (anthropology, kaizen, and gamification) to help you manage your projects, activities, and your life as a whole, by turning them into fun, effortless, and successful games.
You can also consider self-gamification a gameful self-coaching and self-leadership approach. We all coach ourselves through life and often struggle with it. With self-gamification, you can make coaching yourself joyful, successful, and fun.
In self-gamification, you are both the designer and the player of your self-motivational games. Self-motivational games are what your projects and activities become when you turn them into games.
The two main reasons to turn your life into games are the resourcefulness with which you will find solutions in (almost) any situation, and the effortlessness and fun you will have in achieving your goals.
Books and Video Courses
Books:
5 Minute Perseverance Game (1st and 2nd Edition), © 2016 and 2021
Self-Gamification Happiness Formula, © 2019
The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games, © 2020
Gameful Project Management, © 2020
Gameful Blogging on Medium.com, © 2021, 
Actual Real-Life Role-Playing Games, © 2022
Self-Help and Self-Care Games, © 2023
Navigate Your Emotions by Exploring Them Like Games, © 2024
To see the full list of my books, go to this page.
Online courses on Udemy:
Motivate Yourself by Turning Your Life Into Fun Games
Joyful Self-Management Equals Gameful Project Management
What people say
Sascha Christensen, award-winning YA (Young Adult) fantasy author:
“Man, this concept is actually really effective for me. :D”
“This is the one you helped break my block on, btw ;).”
*****
Linda Lassiter, a participant of the online course
Motivate Yourself by Turning Your Life Into Fun Games
on Udemy; 2019:
“I will be retiring in about a year and feel anxiety about the process of preparing. I decided to gamify my life to help me prepare with joy instead of concern and help my students look at ways to gamify their own lives. I already use Classcraft in my math classes for fun and motivation. I was looking for a way to make gamifying my life easier when I came upon your course. I am excited about the process you are presenting. Trying to figure this out on my own has been more difficult than I thought it would be. Thank you for your help. “
*****
Atanas Nikolov, Technical Support Specialist at GoDaddy, Sofia, Bulgaria;
posted on LinkedIn on August 29, 2020:
“Recently we had a brainstorming session with her, which was very useful and she helped us to find new ways to develop our mobile app for recycling – using gamification. This is very important to us since users always need to be entertained and to feel great when doing an online activity. We were looking for ways to keep them engaged. She is a very smart and creative professional who I recommend and will be glad to speak with at another meeting in the next stage of our app.”
More on Living Gamefully
Living a gameful life means practicing turning our lives into fun games.
Below are links to some of my posts on Self-Gamification,
which is the art of turning our lives into fun games.
Click for the “Gameful Life” publication on Medium.com.
The Goal of Turning One’s Life into Fun Games
The goal, the mission, and the win-state of the SG game.
How to Conquer the Information Overload Gamefully
In the internet interconnected world, information becomes a much too easily accessible good.
Self-Gamification is an Art and a Game
Self-Gamification is the art of turning whatever we are up to into fun and engaging games for ourselves.
View older Self-Gamification Articles on the blog here