♟️ TREE 499: How can you turn today into a game?

Illness
Snow day
Cooking dinner
Making ends meet
Doing a day’s work
Preparing for Christmas
Culturally mandated jollity

I don’t know what you are facing today. I don’t know if your day will be difficult or delightful. I do know that if you turn whatever you are doing today into a game, you are likely to be happier and do your stuff more creatively and effectively.

Some ways to gamify your day:

• Race – can I do X in X number of minutes?

• Board game view – use your imagination to zoom out on your day/office/relationships. What are the patterns? How can you disrupt the unhealthy ones and strengthen the good ones?

• Ask, What if we… to get fresh ideas. Don’t worry about being practical. Be silly and weird. Give your brain permission to go off

• Solve the puzzle – reframe a difficult problem as a fascinating puzzle that you get to solve

Scientists have never figured out why all robot snails have underbites. Nature is mysterious.

I started a little project of listening to a bunch of the greatest albums of all time. Of course Led Zeppelin IV is on the list (Spotify)

Play your way through Monday
Jeff