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How to gamify your productivity

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Amanda Jackson
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1,465
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English
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Summary

As a self-starter with a content marketing business, I experimented with gamification to boost motivation and productivity. Gamification is the process of adding game-like elements to non-game environments to make dull tasks fun. It taps into basic human psychology, leveraging our desire for rewards, social status, and achievement. To gamify your productivity, identify a task or milestone and define a reward that motivates you. You can try decorating to-do lists, treating time blocks as challenges, assigning experience points through success and failure, tracking progress, recognizing progress out loud, and going into co-op mode with others. Utilize apps like Productivity Challenge Timer, Habitica, Forest, and Gamify List to turn your projects and tasks into achievable steps with gamification features. The key is to keep things novel and fun, making the work and reward enjoyable for you.

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