My new motivation game.

I can't take credit for this idea. I got it from listening to the iProcrastinate podcast. Here's what I did. I took 45 note cards. On thirty of them I wrote down motivational quotes. One 15 I wrote prizes. 5 cards had prizes like "Spend two guilt free hours playing video games." or "Spend a night watching Netflix without worry." Five of them had prizes with a value of about $5-15, and the remaining five had prizes of items I really want with values over $15.

Now every Sunday I will give myself experience points based on the things I do. For example; if I don't spend money on junk in the morning I give myself 50 xp. If I don't spend it on junk twice a day I give myself 150 xp and if I don't buy junk at all I give myself 300 xp.  I also give myself 200 xp for every time I run in a week and a bonus 200 xp if I run all four times a week.

I make these mini-challenges so that on a perfect week I can earn 5,000 xp. For every 1,000 xp I draw a card at random. If I win a prize then I have to get the prize within the next 24 hours.

So far I've only drawn quotes last week (3 of them). Next week I am hoping for a prize.

-P

As far as the spending on junk challenge. I had a bad day yesterday, so I am back at 01/30.
I know I didn't post yesterday, but I am going to post twice today, plus I had a very productive creative day. Please stay tuned to this blog for a future post about what I have been working on in the past couple of days.

Creativity challenge: 06/30
Fiscal Responsiblity challenge: 01/30