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Happy New Year's Eve everybody!
Seeing as how diligently we play this Hay Day game, so diligently playing that many of us have neglected our real life by various degrees (mine is the highest degree :() , I have been wondering if we could gamify our real life so that when we put down the device and go do something else, we are still playing another part of a game. Do you have any idea how this can be done?
Strawfairy
Ummmmm, I think I will still be here.
I think this is a question for the Doctor.
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Hopefully you will one day reach the point that you are not so addicted to the game. It had me in it's stronghold for many months. I lived, breathed and ate Hay Day. I would try and time my chores or errands around Tom. I had it bad. I don't hire Tom anymore or buy diamonds. Now I control the game instead of it controlling me. Balance is not easily achieved, but it is very liberating!Quote:
Originally Posted by Strawfairy
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Originally Posted by BrightSunnyDay
You mean it's hope for the rest of us!!!!
Many times I have wished that I could just queue up my real-life tasks and let them run. But alas, my real life is not a HayDay cake oven.
~powdermonkey
I have this problem with most games, Hay Day is just my latest addiction. I love doing quests/tasks in games so it helps me to see chores and errands as quests for which I'll get a reward when I've completed it :D Even if the reward is just a nice cup of tea or more time gaming.
Thanks for your responses! I was wondering WHY I like to play games instead of do work, and if I know WHY, I can try to put that attractive element into my work so that I will do work as diligently as I play this game. Playing this game is not necessarily easier than doing work (unless your work is to sell insurance). It is psychology that makes me prefer game over work. My work is taking care of the home and sort the paper. I have no patience for this "work". In the past I have used some tricks to make myself wash the dishes:
Trick 1 -- I imagine my kitchen sinks full of dirty dishes as earthquake sites, and I imagine myself a rescue team member. I think of those small items like spoons and forks as children, and I will pull them out from beneath, wash and "save" them. This way, my conscience will make me continue washing.... till the last big piece, which I REALLY dislike washing. But I tell myself, I have to get this fat lady out of here or else the opera can't end. And I just don't feel all right to save everybody but leave somebody behind. This trick still works; I tried yesterday.
Trick 2 -- I pretend that it is not my kitchen sinks; it is Strawfairy's kitchen sinks. My self-perceived image of Strawfairy, which used to be "a good person with a hard life" comes to mind, and triggers my sympathy. I ask myself: Wouldn't you be willing to help her out and make her lucky? The feeling of helping someone I love makes me do the work willingly, and the work is thus done. I will then go take a tea in the living room, feeling satisfied that I have helped "a good person with a hard life" and made her lucky. Later on, when I re-enter the kitchen to put away the tea cup I have just used, a magic happens here: I see the clean dishes on the kitchen island, and my feeling is "WOW! While I was busy helping a good person with a hard life, someone came and washed MY dishes!" LOL! This trick doesn't work so well now because I no longer think of myself as a good person with a hard life. My self image now is "someone plays too much".
Excuse my English with wrong tenses. Don't call the doctor; I am okay.
Ah another whovian, as my daughter would say. Bow ties are cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by ilovehayday
i like how you think. Anything that makes the drudge of repetitive household chores more interesting catches my attention. I think is is very creative to consider taking the hay day perception into everyday work. Think I will give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the inspiration!Quote:
Originally Posted by Strawfairy