Want to gamify your life? Gain experience for checking items off your to-do list. Set goals and get points for reaching your milestones. Battle evil villains with every task you finish. Collect random crap, I mean gear, and raise pets. Then head over to www.habitca.com and join the fun!
It sounded fun so I joined in. It's actually getting me to do some of those things I've been putting off forever. But the whole system runs on your personal integrity. Want to create stupid tasks just so you can level up faster? Go right ahead. I put "get dressed before noon" and "drink water" on my list. Easy enough to do, but still things I sometimes need motivation to accomplish.
There is some interesting research on gamification of things like school and life. Here's just one example. Short answer is yes, it can work. But a lot of users will drop it once the novelty wears off. Some of the research found that over the long run, gamification actually decreases involvement. People come to expect a reward for doing things that they did before the game without reward. Make the reward too difficult to get or not rewarding enough and people quit.
Check it out if you're interested. For me, it's working for now. When it stops working, I'll find something else.
Showing posts with label to-do lists. Show all posts
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Monday, July 10, 2017
Monday, July 4, 2011
Things I've Been Meaning to Do
I ran across Lazy Mom's blog a while back. She's hysterical. You should go check out her blog. I sometimes kick myself that I didn't write her blog. She and I have a lot in common. Her challenge today was to write a list of things you've been meaning to do. So, here's mine:
1. Find the camera cord so I can download all those pictures I've been saving up on the camera.
2. Post pictures on my blog. Wait, gotta do #1 before I can do #2. (Somehow that doesn't quite sound right.)
3. Clean up the nuclear disaster zone in my sewing room. I'd post a picture but I'd have to put a warning label on it. And, oh yeah, I can't find the camera cord.
4. Clean off my desk, again, and the coffee table that has become my desk because my desk is full, and the end table that doubles as my other desk.
5. Condemn all the rooms in my house. Or get my kids to start doing chores again. Anyone have a remote control car I can mount a cattle prod on?
Why don't I just do the chores? I'm lazy. And I'm supposed to be working on my computer. I should write a review for Plants vs. Zombies and Zombie Farm and Age of Empires and Sudoku so I can justify the time I spend playing them. Wait, that requires real work.
6. Get my son to bale the front yard. It's deep enough we could sell it for cattle feed.
7. Weed the flower beds. I think it was 2008 the last time I did that one.
8. Get my kids to change their sheets. It's been at least a month. I need to buy industrial strength disinfectant to wash them in.
9. Wash windows. Last time that happened was 1997. I paid someone to wash them for me. No one has offered to since. But we're also a Mac house. We don't do Windows.
10. Kill the wasps under my neighbor's mailbox. It's right next to mine. That involves spray cans of chemicals. I think I even know where they are. Shouldn't take more than five minutes. But then I'd have to get off the couch, put my shoes on, find the wasp spray, go outside and spray them. Too much work there.
11. Condemn my husband's office and work area in the garage. Who needs fifty pounds of rusty, bent nails? He inherited them from his grandpa. I think there's a sentimental attachment.
12. Write three or four short stories that have deadlines coming up really fast. I've been meaning to do that. I've got them all plotted out and everything. I'll do that right after I watch another rerun of NCIS.
13. Cook lunch. This one I can do. Give me just a minute while I surf over to the pizza delivery website...
14. Read more of Lazy Mom's blog. I feel so much better about myself when I do.
1. Find the camera cord so I can download all those pictures I've been saving up on the camera.
2. Post pictures on my blog. Wait, gotta do #1 before I can do #2. (Somehow that doesn't quite sound right.)
3. Clean up the nuclear disaster zone in my sewing room. I'd post a picture but I'd have to put a warning label on it. And, oh yeah, I can't find the camera cord.
4. Clean off my desk, again, and the coffee table that has become my desk because my desk is full, and the end table that doubles as my other desk.
5. Condemn all the rooms in my house. Or get my kids to start doing chores again. Anyone have a remote control car I can mount a cattle prod on?
Why don't I just do the chores? I'm lazy. And I'm supposed to be working on my computer. I should write a review for Plants vs. Zombies and Zombie Farm and Age of Empires and Sudoku so I can justify the time I spend playing them. Wait, that requires real work.
6. Get my son to bale the front yard. It's deep enough we could sell it for cattle feed.
7. Weed the flower beds. I think it was 2008 the last time I did that one.
8. Get my kids to change their sheets. It's been at least a month. I need to buy industrial strength disinfectant to wash them in.
9. Wash windows. Last time that happened was 1997. I paid someone to wash them for me. No one has offered to since. But we're also a Mac house. We don't do Windows.
10. Kill the wasps under my neighbor's mailbox. It's right next to mine. That involves spray cans of chemicals. I think I even know where they are. Shouldn't take more than five minutes. But then I'd have to get off the couch, put my shoes on, find the wasp spray, go outside and spray them. Too much work there.
11. Condemn my husband's office and work area in the garage. Who needs fifty pounds of rusty, bent nails? He inherited them from his grandpa. I think there's a sentimental attachment.
12. Write three or four short stories that have deadlines coming up really fast. I've been meaning to do that. I've got them all plotted out and everything. I'll do that right after I watch another rerun of NCIS.
13. Cook lunch. This one I can do. Give me just a minute while I surf over to the pizza delivery website...
14. Read more of Lazy Mom's blog. I feel so much better about myself when I do.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Look! I'm the White Rabbit!
I certainly feel like the white rabbit lately. So much to do, so little time, hurry, hurry. I'm late, late, late! My to-do lists have exploded. Yep, multiple lists. One for my day job, one for my mommy job, one for the house, one for my sewing project, one for my writing projects, and one for marketing my writing.
I want Alice, from the Brady Bunch not Wonderland, to move in with me. I can hand her half my lists. But that's not going to happen. Instead, I'll keep plugging away, doing the best I can. It's all we can ask of ourselves.
To quote the motto of a famous organization (which is also on my to-do list this week): On my honor, to do my best...
I want Alice, from the Brady Bunch not Wonderland, to move in with me. I can hand her half my lists. But that's not going to happen. Instead, I'll keep plugging away, doing the best I can. It's all we can ask of ourselves.
To quote the motto of a famous organization (which is also on my to-do list this week): On my honor, to do my best...
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