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Here is the second 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 Self-Gamification Happiness Formula: How to Turn Your Life into Fun Games.
The extract I am reading is from chapter 11, “Seeing and Designing What We Do as Games,” section 2, “Why game design is essential for everyone,” on page 251.
Here it is if you want to read along, prior, or afterward.
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Excerpt from the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula
And here is another assignment for you: If you use a calendar, a planner or project book in paper format or have all of your to-do lists under one heading, then open it at the beginning and write your name, followed by the words “Game Book.” Feel free to have more than one game book, depending on what you record there. I use three paper planners, two of which are game books (which I will address several times more [in this book. For example,]):
- “To-do Game Book,” where I record and maintain to-do lists daily (the previous name for it was “Deadlines and Plans Game Book”), and
- “Points and Stars Game Book,” where I develop and fill in the feedback system for my self-motivational games.
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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 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 four of my books there — one upon subscription or one-time support, and three in the posts solely for subscribers. Since the beginning of February, the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula is one of the three. 
Enjoy your day and let it be gameful!