Clumsy Ninja
Screen capture of Clumsy Ninja. (Source: Lyra Kua)
If you love to play casual games on your smartphone, you've probably encountered many games having goals as an integral part of leveling up. Games such as Zombie Tsunami, Temple Run, or Clumsy Ninja have goals laid out for the players to attain. Once you complete the goals, you collect extra rewards, making it faster for you to level up on the game. Those goals are what makes playing games so addicting and less dull. Yet, in real life, we rarely set serious goals for our tasks. Game lovers tend to focus more on their game rather than their work productivity. In fact, there are some games I've encountered that have a BOSS button readily available so players can quickly move out of the game before their boss catches them slacking off. …show more content…
Completing goals from the games can be as fun as completing goals from a real-life checklist. If you want to level up in your own venture, then you will find checking off items from the list to be as addicting. The Importance of Checklists
Writing those tasks down can become a token of setting your mind to begin the tasks. It's a way of dealing with procrastination, and making your plans more tangible as you transform them into words. Besides, when you organize your thoughts, you begin to feel less overwhelmed. Without a checklist, I always feel that there are so many things I cannot pinpoint that needed to be done, making me even the more stressed and confused. By making a checklist, you are breaking down a complex task into simpler ones. Simple tasks are much easier to achieve. Seeing one after another item getting marked as done can be a great boost to the morale. It's up to you how specific you are going to break the tasks down. The key is to make each item simpler and more achievable for
Screen capture of Clumsy Ninja. (Source: Lyra Kua)
If you love to play casual games on your smartphone, you've probably encountered many games having goals as an integral part of leveling up. Games such as Zombie Tsunami, Temple Run, or Clumsy Ninja have goals laid out for the players to attain. Once you complete the goals, you collect extra rewards, making it faster for you to level up on the game. Those goals are what makes playing games so addicting and less dull. Yet, in real life, we rarely set serious goals for our tasks. Game lovers tend to focus more on their game rather than their work productivity. In fact, there are some games I've encountered that have a BOSS button readily available so players can quickly move out of the game before their boss catches them slacking off. …show more content…
Completing goals from the games can be as fun as completing goals from a real-life checklist. If you want to level up in your own venture, then you will find checking off items from the list to be as addicting. The Importance of Checklists
Writing those tasks down can become a token of setting your mind to begin the tasks. It's a way of dealing with procrastination, and making your plans more tangible as you transform them into words. Besides, when you organize your thoughts, you begin to feel less overwhelmed. Without a checklist, I always feel that there are so many things I cannot pinpoint that needed to be done, making me even the more stressed and confused. By making a checklist, you are breaking down a complex task into simpler ones. Simple tasks are much easier to achieve. Seeing one after another item getting marked as done can be a great boost to the morale. It's up to you how specific you are going to break the tasks down. The key is to make each item simpler and more achievable for