How to Turn Family and Personal Official Matters into Fun Games

Replacing the traditional annoyance with fun

I often share the story about turning the process of applying for a new passport for my son into a game.

We all have many of these tasks to accomplish regularly. These are perfect candidates for being turned into games.

The main result when I turn these, as I call them, administrative activities, into games is being able to bypass my traditional annoyance with them.

These activities include registering my children for one or other event or activity (like dancing or swimming), paying for these and other bills, communicating with doctors, accompanying my children and mother to health checks, organizing meetings with friends, and setting meeting dates for the local writers’ club on Facebook.

Turning these into games helped me become less and less upset at having to do all of them, and I hardly ever sigh about these things anymore.

Even if thoughts pop into my head like “Oh, there is always something to do,” there is the knowledge, “I only need to spend a few minutes on it, and a step toward the goal is done. And I get the point.”

Besides which, I discovered that I even look forward to doing these tasks because if I just follow the instructions provided (without evaluating and complaining about them), they are often straightforward to do. So the points are earned easily.

Yes, the most significant results here are the removal of drama, fun factor in doing something simple and straightforward, and pleasure at witnessing visible progress in those necessary things (without having to put much effort in).

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed this little article. If you did, then in addition to the one referred to above, you might also like these:

The article above is an excerpt from the Self-Gamification Happiness Formula: How to Turn Your Life into Fun Games.

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