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Personal Development Motivation Gamification

Motivate Yourself by Turning Your Life Into Fun Games

Practice Self-Gamification, a Unique Self-Help Approach Uniting Anthropology, Kaizen, and Gamification
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (35 ratings)
190 students
Created by Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Last updated 9/2019
English
English
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What you'll learn

  • Gamify any or (if you wish) all areas of your life, including management aspects, without having to delve into gamification and psychological research.
  • Design captivating self-motivational games following an anthropological (non-judgmental) approach to observing your behavior towards projects and activities.
  • Accelerate progress towards achieving set goals by slowing down - i.e. by identifying and taking the smallest and most effortless steps possible towards those goals.
  • Develop a playful mindset while approaching everything with excellence.
  • Turn self-motivation and self-gamification into a habit and inspire others to do the same.

Requirements

  • There are no specific requirements before starting this course. This course is the foundation for anyone who wants to turn their life into a series of engaging, fun, and uplifting games.
  • The approach I share with you in this course brings together three brilliant and established methods. I will recommend reading of some additional materials (mainly books) that you would need to pay for, should you wish to learn more about these three topics. Doing so is entirely optional, however.

Description

Learn how to motivate yourself by practicing self-gamification, a unique self-help approach to implementing game-design elements into your life.

Master three skill-sets to be successful in your self-motivational game design, your projects, and your life

  1. See yourself, the world around you, and your thought processes non-judgmentally like an anthropologist would do.
  2. Identify your dreams and goals, and make progress in them, one small and effortless step at a time, the kaizen way.
  3. Apply gamification, that is see whatever you are up to as a game; then design, play, and improve your games, and learn to appreciate every step on the way by giving yourself points, badges, and other small non-material rewards.

Apply anthropology, kaizen, and gamification together to practice self-gamification, a unique approach to increase motivation and a sense of well-being

Before motivating anyone else, you might want to master self-motivation.

And since motivation should in principle lift someone up enough to drive them to doing what they want or need to do, you would want no less for yourself.

In this course, you will learn how to motivate yourself in a gameful way, without having to delve into gamification and psychological research.

Contents and Overview

This course contains 7 sections, 39 lectures, and about 2 hours of content. Sections 3 through 6 include activities building upon each other. The course offers three articles and references to multiple resources, which would allow you, should you wish, to deepen your knowledge of the techniques discussed in this course.

The course is designed for anyone who wants to succeed in what they do, and to enjoy the process. It applies to non-gamers, gamers, gamification designers, and also those who already gamify some aspects but would like to extend that to all areas of their lives.

This course will show you how to turn your life into fun and engaging games without having to study gamification or psychology in detail. You can also use this course as a practical introduction to personal gamification.

By the end of this course you will be able to observe yourself, the dynamics of the world around you, and your thought processes, non-judgmentally, as an anthropologist would do. You will identify the activities you escape from and those you escape to, when you procrastinate about something.

You will then identify big goals, and the tasks for your to-do lists between you and those goals. You will learn what your next, most appropriate step should be toward accomplishing items on your to-do lists. You will discover that with small, effortless steps you will achieve your goals more quickly and in a more fun, and often surprising way, than the large and often difficult jumps you might have relied on in the past.

And finally, you will learn to see your projects and activities as games. You will give yourself points, or badges, for the steps you take on the way, and discover that doing so will help you to create a habit of acknowledging and enjoying each moment in life, in a way you’ve never done before.

You will discover that by continually honing these three skill sets you will be able to solve any dilemma or problem that comes your way. You will learn how to design your project games to enable steady progress, have fun with what you do, and relax along the way.

Who this course is for:

  • Non-gamers: persons who play games very occasionally and prefer to spend their free time doing activities other than games, but who wish to turn projects they either want or need to accomplish into fun games - without having to delve into gamification and psychological research to start playing right away.
  • Gamers: persons who play games (often video games) on a regular basis, sometimes for many hours a day, and who would like to enjoy everything else they do, also after they’ve stopped playing their favorite games.
  • Gamers and non-gamers who consciously gamify some of their activities and would like to know how to extend gamification to other areas of their lives.
  • Gamification designers who would like to know the personal skills users of their frameworks require to obtain maximum benefit from their products.

Course content

7 sections • 39 lectures • 1h 56m total length

  • Preview01:22
  • Preview01:43
  • Preview01:32
  • Preview01:38
  • Preview01:30

  • Introduction to self-gamification
    00:35
  • Why turn our lives into games?
    03:18
  • Preview03:20
  • Three approaches applied together
    03:47
  • Self-gamification examples
    02:02
  • Who can you think of?
    1 question

  • Introduction to awareness
    00:52
  • Be your own anthropologist
    03:16
  • Preview02:09
  • Escape-from tasks
    01:42
  • Escape-to tasks
    01:03
  • Assess your tasks
    2 questions
  • How you observe yourself
    02:45
  • Epiphanies through non-judgmental seeing
    03:19
  • Conclusions, Section 3
    01:17

  • Introduction to Section 4
    01:15
  • What is kaizen?
    02:30
  • Structure of a human brain
    04:40
  • Preview04:59
  • The magic of an effortless step
    09:08
  • Identify your next steps, the kaizen way
    1 question
  • Conclusions, Section 4
    01:07

  • Introduction to Section 5
    00:36
  • Preview02:43
  • Preview01:40
  • You are already a game designer
    03:49
  • On goals and rules
    02:26
  • A non-gamer’s simple frameworks
    08:18
  • Motivational game design tips
    04:45
  • Game design tips for escape-from and escape-to tasks
    05:51
  • Design your motivational games
    1 question
  • Conclusions, Section 5
    01:03

  • Introduction to Section 6
    00:57
  • Preview04:48
  • How to practice self-gamification
    06:23
  • How to share self-gamification
    01:01
  • Practice, enjoy, and share
    1 question
  • Conclusions, Section 6
    00:20

  • Congratulations
    02:56

Instructor

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Non-gamer turning life into fun games
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 35 Reviews
  • 190 Students
  • 1 Course

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels is a writer and specialist in business development, information technology, semiconductor physics, and electronic engineering. She founded Optimist Writer in October 2015, as a writing, publishing and consulting business. She was born and grew up in Moldova, lived in Germany for twelve years, and now lives in Aalborg, Denmark, with her husband and two children. Since 2015, Victoria has published an array of books both non-fiction and fiction.

Before that she authored a PhD thesis on semiconductor physics and technology as well as many scientific and technical publications.

Victoria is a non-gamer who lives life like it’s a game, and never wants to stop. Every month she designs her project games anew, and loves testing them out. Writing and publishing fiction and non-fiction are just some examples of such games.

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