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The key — and a little hidden purpose — here in this game is learning how to be and experience being kind to yourself.
The Secret Purpose of Turning Life into Fun Games
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Free Speaking Game for The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games
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Here is the third blog post in a new series featuring videos on YouTube, where I read a paragraph from one of my motivational books and use it as a prompt to speak freely.
This idea was inspired by the free-writing exercise well-known among writers. I used dice and timer to turn this free-speaking exercise into fun games. I hope you enjoy watching them and maybe trying out this gameful approach for yourself and tasks you want or need to tackle today.
In this video, I read from The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games: A Compressed Version of the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula.
I am reading a paragraph from the chapter titled “What?”.
Here it is if you want to read along, prior, or afterward.
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A prompting paragraph from The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games
These could be, for example, watching TV or random videos on YouTube, reading a book for leisure, playing an online game, staying in bed, spending time on social media, surfing the internet, etc.
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The next step
To take this game to the next level, I invite you to read the book. To look at The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games and buy it on Amazon, click on its title or the image below:
If you want to see where else you can buy it, then go to the book’s page on this website here.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to my page, Optimist Writer, on ko-fi for $5 a month, and besides supporting what I do, you will also get access to all my motivational books, which I share there once a month or each time a book is out. Right now, you can get access to six of my books there — one upon subscription or one-time support and five in the posts solely for subscribers. The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games is one of the five.
Enjoy answering any question you receive or ask yourself in a gameful and joyful way!
Free Speaking Game for the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula
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Here is the second blog post in a new series featuring videos on YouTube, where I read a short paragraph from one of my motivational books and use it as a prompt to speak freely.
This idea was inspired by the free-writing exercise well-known among writers. I used dice and timer to turn this free-speaking exercise into fun games. I hope you enjoy watching them and maybe trying out this gameful approach for yourself and tasks you want or need to tackle today.
In this video, I read from my book, Self-Gamification Happiness Formula: How to Turn Your Life into Fun Games.
I am reading a paragraph from “Chapter 9. The Starting Point and the Next Step.”
Here it is if you want to read along, prior, or afterward.
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The prompting paragraph from the
Self-Gamification Happiness Formula
I could do the following in those “odd” places where I don’t have all the tools needed to make progress with my project; and these are the things I could prepare or use before going to those places. (Examples: put a notepad with a pen in the bathroom, print out the chapter of my thesis I am working on to take and read on the commute, download a free app to plot my novel, put a dictionary in the kitchen to look up the words for kitchen appliances in the language I want to learn, in the small breaks while cooking):
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The next step
To take this game to the next level, I invite you to read the book and try out the exercises inside it. To look at Self-Gamification Happiness Formula and buy it on Amazon, click on its title or the image below. Please note that you can buy the book as an e-book, paperback, or audiobook:
If you want to see where else you can buy it, then go to the book’s page on this website here.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to my page, Optimist Writer, on ko-fi for $5 a month, and besides supporting what I do, you will also get access to all my motivational books, which I share there once a month or each time a book is out. Right now, you can get access to five of my books there — one upon subscription or one-time support and four in the posts solely for subscribers. Since the beginning of February, the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula is one of these.
Enjoy your day and make it gameful! 
One Minute Read from The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games
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Here is the third blog post in a series featuring videos on YouTube, where I read from one of my motivational books for one minute.
In this video, I read from The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games: A Compressed Version of the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula.
The extract I am reading is from the chapter titled “How?”.
Here it is if you want to read along, prior, or afterward.
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Excerpt from The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games
1. Self-Gamification is a lifestyle
So far, we have considered all the five “W” questions — those starting with the words “who,” “what,” “when,” “where” and “why.”
The remaining question is how to turn something or anything into games.
The answer is multi-faceted, and in a way, the whole book is about how to do it, because the “how?” embraces the answers to all the “W” questions: “who?”, “what?”, “when?”, “where?” and “why?”.
But the most important facet of how to turn our lives into games is that the gameful approach to life, Self-Gamification, just like those for our health, well-being, and happiness, is not a one-time pill to fix a problem once and for all, but a lifestyle. Because:
“Happiness is not a destination. It is a way of life.” — Anonymous
2. What is Self-Gamification?
So, what is this new approach to increasing self-motivation and bringing ourselves back on our happy path? And why the need for a new term?
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The next step
To take this game to the next level, I invite you to read the book. To look at The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games and buy it on Amazon, click on its title or the image below:
If you want to see where else you can buy it, then go to the book’s page on this website here.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to my page, Optimist Writer, on ko-fi for $5 a month, and besides supporting what I do, you will also get access to all my motivational books, which I share there once a month or each time a book is out. Right now, you can get access to four of my books there — one upon subscription or one-time support and three in the posts solely for subscribers. The Self-Gamification Happiness Formula is one of the three. The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of Turning Life into Fun Games will be one of the next books I will share there.
Enjoy answering any question you receive or ask yourself in a gameful and joyful way!
One Minute Read from the 5 Minute Perseverance Game
Today I start a series of blog posts featuring videos on YouTube, where I read from one of my motivational books for one minute.
Here is the video where I read from the 5 Minute Perseverance Game: Play Daily for a Month and Become the Ultimate Procrastination Breaker.
The extract I am reading is from the chapter “About the Game.”
Here it is if you want to read along, prior, or afterward.
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Excerpt from the chapter “About the Game”
Procrastination means putting off something which needs doing, whereas perseverance is to keep on doing the task whatever it takes.
So procrastination is bad and perseverance is good. Do you agree?
You do? Have you ever tried questioning this statement?
Quite a few people on the Internet do question the supposedly negative side of procrastination by organizing pro-procrastinating fan groups. They rebel and fight the procrastination fighters.
And what do the others, the pro-perseverance say? Many say you need to work hard to achieve something. They search for those inspiring figures throughout history and the present, who achieved amazing heights in various areas, in spite of challenges they might have faced or still face.
You want the same, badly. You want to achieve something, you have a dream. But on the other hand, you like what procrastinators and writers of “Be lazy at work” books say. You want fun, not hard work.
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Special news and a special offer
Before I finish this post, here is a reminder of the special piece of information I announced in the post “How to Persevere With Joy Instead of Effort,” published a week and a half ago.
Here is what I shared there with you:
I will publish the 2nd (5-Year) edition of the 5 Minute Perseverance Game this year. I sent the revised manuscript to my editor this week, and I hope in March, I will publish it.
So, here is my offer to you.
If you buy the first edition of the 5 Minute Perseverance Game before the second is published and send me a copy of your receipt, then within the week of the second edition’s launch, I will send you a link where you will be able to download the second edition of the book as an e-book in a format of your choice.
Please send me your receipt to vib@optimistwriter.com or in a personal message through one of the channels listed on my contact page.
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Where to buy the book
To take a look at 5 Minute Perseverance Game and buy it on Amazon, click on its title or this image:
If you want to see where else you can buy it, then go to the book’s page on this website here.
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Enjoy playing your perseverance, voluntary procrastination, or any other self-motivational and uplifting games!