You Should Play With Real Life Games Instead

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Do you like to play video games?

What games do you usually play?

Do you enjoy playing them? Especially after completing a level and receiving a reward?

What if you could play real life games and earn real awards and achievements?

Yes you could do that. How?

You could treat your real life activities, projects like video games. Instead of thinking how hard and daunting it is to do it, think of it as a game that you need to finish.

This idea came from Bro. Bo in one of his newsletters that I read. He shared that he was one of the many who became addicted to Plants Vs Zombies when it first came out. He would spend literally hours just playing the video game.

Until one day he realized that he wasting too much time playing video games so he stopped playing. Being his typical Bro. Bo self, he was able to see something positive in playing video games. Bro, Bo saw how much he enjoyed paying video games, especially in completing a stage and getting rewards and achievements. He then looked at how he starts a business and saw similarities.

So he saw that he was actually playing real life games. He considers starting a business as his real life game. The step by step process needed to start and run a business is like the different levels he needs to accomplish. 

Some are easy but some are hard. And like in any video game, he can't move on to the next level until he finishes his current level. So he just keeps on trying until he accomplishes it. Unlike in video games though, the rewards are real. Whenever he accomplishes a step, he gets real rewards instead of fake money or fake achievements that games reward you with.

Playing video games is fun and entertaining, even if sometimes it can be frustrating and depressing. But once you've overcome the hard part and accomplished your objective, you feel happy and a sense of accomplishment.

Isn't real life the same? We experience hardships, we fail, we fall down. But it's not the end of the world, we can always continue, start over, or get back up. The good thing though is, real life games offer us real life rewards.

Learn to control and enjoy playing the game of life.