“You: The Video Game”
I have too many minimalist blogs in my feed reader. Lots of them I gloss over, which I should do something about.
In any case this entry (http://www.thesimplerlife.net/2010/08/17/earning-achievements-you-video-game/ – it’s not working at the moment so here’s the Google cache) talks about video games and how you start off easy and then do things that get progressively harder and then you get to the end. About how games makes put things in to maintain our interest as well as extend our time playing. Collection something or completing a level in a certain amount of time for example – as they call them ‘achievements’.
Now I really like the idea of how you can take that and put them into your everyday life. Achievements that you can set yourself. So maybe switching off the internet for a weekend, or only checking email twice (once?!) a day for a week, or exercising a certain number of times a week, or making your bed every morning for a week or just simply going outside for a walk everyday for a week or or or or. You get the idea. I mean I know it’s a case of simply setting yourself a target and sticking to it. I think it’s a case of feeling like you’ve achieved something that I like. So you can say this week I have achieved this.
Now, I just want to think about how I can record it…
(This week I am going for a ‘stretch every morning’ achievement.)
I’m doing this > http://www.yogasite.com/sunsalute.htm
August 19, 2010