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Join the Gameful Habits Launch Team

June 18, 2021Self-Gamification#booklaunch, #gamefullife, #games, #habits, #OptimistWriter, #selfawareness, #selfgamification, #selfhelp, Ideasvica

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Habits are both visible and invisible threads, sometimes representing and always connecting the projects, activities, tasks, challenges, or anything else we want to master or tackle. — Gameful Habits

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I will soon launch my book called Gameful Habits: How to Turn Your Daily Practices into Fun Games.

Since habits are always present in our lives and (often) minds, I decided to do the following. I invite you to participate actively in the launch of this book. It will be a standalone book in a collection (series) of books I call “Gameful Life.”

You will get:

A review (i.e., free) copy of the book in e-format of your choice (you can choose between epub, mobi, or pdf) as soon as the book is published or even a little earlier (as soon as I submit it to the online shops).

I’ll need your help with (depending on your preference, one or both of) the following:

Spread the word about the book on social media and/or other places (e.g., your blog or per e-mail) by using the marketing materials (visuals and quotes) I will prepare and share with you. You can also post thoughts of your own.
An honest review of the book on Amazon, other online stores online, and/or Goodreads.

Join now:

The book will be published within the coming two, three weeks. I will self-publish it without using a pre-order scheme. So, it will be available as soon as the retailers verify it and make it available for purchase.

Since the publishing date is only two, three, or maybe even less than two weeks away (I only need to make one more read-through), there might be only two handfuls of days (or even less) to join the team. Therefore, don’t wait, join, and learn how to have fun while turning habits into fun games.

Here is the description of the book:

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Description of the Gameful Habits

Turn your daily practices into fun and exciting games.

Many people struggle to motivate themselves to start the day, work on a project, or maintain a healthy or otherwise beneficial habit. They consider many of their daily routines to be a necessary chore that they will never enjoy.

The pioneer of Self-Gamification — a unique approach to turning life into fun games — Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, has discovered another way for herself, and offers this possibility to others by sharing her experiences.

In this unconventional book on habits, Victoria shares the Super Sleeper game she created to ensure she got enough sleep, and how this success was extrapolated to the other habits and daily practices she wanted to develop.

Read Gameful Habits, and you will learn the three skill sets required to succeed in your self-motivational games, i.e. any habits, projects, challenges, tasks, or other activities turned into fun games. These skill sets are:

Seeing yourself, the world around you, and your thought processes non-judgmentally, as an anthropologist would do;
Identifying your dreams and goals, and taking action, one small and effortless step at a time, the kaizen way;
Applying gamification; that is, seeing and treating whatever you are up to like a game, and learning to appreciate every step on the way with gameful rewards.

These skill sets, which you can easily put into practice immediately — along with the awareness that when you turn your life into fun games, you are both the player and the designer of these games — will help you turn happiness into a lifestyle, and health and other beneficial practices into exciting games that you can’t wait to design, play, and continue developing.

Join here:

To join, please send me an e-mail to vib@optimistwriter.com using the Subject line: “I want to join the Gameful Habits Launch Team” and let me know which e-mail address I should add to the team’s mailing list. Please note that I will also add your e-mail address to my general mailing list (Optimist Writer mailing list). You can unsubscribe from either or both at any time.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this post!

I’m looking forward to hearing from you!

With best wishes,

Victoria

How to Approach Project Management Gamefully

April 22, 2021Gameful Project Management, Self-Gamification#gamefullife, #gamefulprojectmanagement, #OptimistWriter, #projectmanagement, #selfawareness, #selfgamificationvica

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In early 2020, I published a book called Gameful Project Management that resonated positively with its readers. Here are some of the reactions to it:

This year, I created an online course with the same title, Gameful Project Management, with the following opening in its description, which mirrors well the reason why I created this course and the book it is based upon:

Projects are the building blocks of our professional and personal lives. So, to live joyfully, we need an enthusiastic approach to our projects. In other words, we need to enjoy working on our projects and the processes of their management.

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To celebrate the launch of this course, I have a special offer for you.

You can enroll for the current best price of $9.99 instead of its regular $199.99.

The offer stands only until April 24, 2021, 11:48 PM PDT.

Enroll today and see you there! 😀

Click on the image or link below to enroll:

Link: https://www.udemy.com/course/gameful-project-management/?couponCode=0F582870935BDA313322

Code for your coupon: 0F582870935BDA313322

What Approaching Fear Gamefully Means

April 8, 2021Self-Gamification#fear, #GamefulIsolation, #gamefullife, #OptimistWriter, #selfawareness, #selfcompassion, #selfgamification, #upsetsvica

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The combination of awareness (that is, non-judgmental seeing), kaizen, and gamification, which make up Self-Gamification, can help us to master fear in a light and enjoyable way — in a gameful way.

A quick reminder. This gameful way doesn’t mean that you need to be in denial and overly cheerful.

We’ve all got upset or even angry at least once in our lives if we didn’t win a game or didn’t reach a level we wanted, or bumped into a wall in a car racing game. The difference between real-life projects and games is that, in games, we don’t stay upset for too long. If we observe that we are, then we stop playing the game. To continue playing, we need to put the upset aside and focus our attention on the next move in the game. Or on another game. In a real-life situation, we can do the same: acknowledge the upset and move on.

— Gameful Isolation: Making the Best of a Crisis, the Self-Gamification Way

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The Secret Purpose of Turning Life into Fun Games

March 23, 2021Self-Gamification#5minuteperseverancegame, #fun, #gamefullife, #kindness, #OptimistWriter, #selfawareness, #selfgamification, #selfhelpvica

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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.

— 5 Minute Perseverance Game

One Minute Read from the Gameful Writing

February 23, 2021Self-Gamification#blogging, #compassion, #courage, #encouragement, #gamefullife, #gamefulwriting, #games, #gamification, #grief, #kindness, #love, #OptimistWriter, #sadness, #selfawareness, #selfgamification, #smallsteps, #writing, #writinglifevica

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Here is the seventh 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 a parable Gameful Writing: Seven People, Seven Stories, Seven Lessons Learned (Book 4 in the “Gameful Life” series).

I am reading the extract from section 3 (“***”) of chapter 5, “Torben.”

Here it is if you want to read along, prior, or afterward.

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Excerpt from the Gameful Writing

Torben finished reading the blog post and reread it. The blogger was right. It was time to play. It was time for him to pack all this stuff and move back to Odense. Maybe without letting Karina know. But he would call just in case to make sure she still wanted him to come back.

But first, the pre-quest. Torben felt strange, he realized. He still wasn’t sure about the writing thing. He could find other ways to spend his time. For example, the pre-quest, or the side-quest, as the blogger called it. Never really a gamer himself, Torben was still wondering, how just one article, or five if he was honest, had moved him to speak in terms of a game player. In Lily’s slang, as he realized, and as it seemed this blogger’s too.

OK, let’s get my favorite cup. Torben went back to the kitchen and took out the cup he wrapped in paper towel before reading the last Gameful Writing blog post.

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The next step

If you want to find out more about these seven stories in one about turning writing or anything else in life into fun games regardless of the circumstances, then I invite you to read Gameful Writing. To look at the book and buy it on Amazon, click on its title above or this 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. Gameful Writing will appear later this year or sooner upon explicit request from the subscribers.

I wish you a beautiful, gameful, and creative day!