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My name is Victoria Ichizli-Bartels. I am an author of over 20 books, writer of over 300 articles on Medium.com, instructor of two online courses, and expert in the areas of Self-Gamification (= “life-gaming” = turning work and personal life into fun games) and S1000D (especially business rules).

I am also a life gamer, turning any challenge, project, task, or activity
into fun games for myself.

Here is my invitation and challenge to you:

Invest in becoming your life’s best designer and player.
Save yourself the costs of seriousness and drama.
Gain resourcefulness, mastery, and fun.

I can help you learn to do this effortlessly and with fun by applying Self-Gamification, the gameful self-help approach that brings together anthropology (awareness), kaizen (philosophy of small steps), and gamification (gamefulness and playfulness) into a powerful synergy and toolset.

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The Latest — 2023 & 2022 — Releases:

Audiobook Nothing Is As It Seems at D2D Audio:

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.

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Self-Help and Self-Care Games

New since May 2023!!!

A 31 Day Reading Challenge to Understand The Types of Gameful Experiences These Represent and How to Design, Develop, and Play Them

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Actual Real-Life Role-Playing Games

A Gamefully Philosophical View on Life and How to Design and Play It

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Spielerisches Schreiben

German translation of Gameful Writing

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Sieben Scherben

German translation of Seven Broken Pieces

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Spionentochter

German translation of A Spy’s Daughter

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Nichts ist, wie es scheint

German translation of Nothing Is As It Seems

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Zwischen Gnade und Abgrund

German translation of Between Grace and Abyss

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Der Weg zur Wahrheit

German translation of The Truth About Family

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Atlas of S1000D Issues 4.1, 4.2, and 5.0

Business Rules Decision Points Arranged into a Linear Topic Map
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