how to beat procrastination and laziness with a game

When I was a kid my parents sometimes were giving me money bills in exchange of doing something useful ,or they think it was useful :) .And that was very good motivation I must say - and this is the  idea of this game. The idea of  Pomodorium is very simple and silly:

In this game, game character (like in RPG game) will get 25 'gold' after player will work for 25 minutes.

 Under work I mean working on one specific task from todo list.And this 'gold' could be spend on some game related activity. Using RPG elements was necessary to help author to recover after MMORG :) and stay productive.

Pomodorium - Timeboxing technique game

pomodoro word template

here are download links to Pomodoro technique word templates:

Pomodoro technique todo and activities lists in Micorosoft Word 2010 format (docx) can by donwloaded by this link : PomodoroTechniqueWordTemplate.docx

The same templates in Micorosoft Word 97-2000 format(.doc) can by donwloaded by this link : PomodoroTechniqueWordTemplate.doc

Pomodoro technique is very simple and popular time management technique. designed based on timeboxing principle.

self motivation for college students

I was trying to find different ways in self motivation but I agree with Jeff Atwood.

I spent two years reading all the self-help books I could find. As of a year ago, I had read 340 self-help books. Because I�m insane.My conclusion from all that reading? 95% of self-help books are complete bullshit.

What is the solution ?

I must say that that there are a lot of non-proven theories and methods that doesn't works.
And even methods that works for one individual may not work for others , because self motivation is very individual.

So the finding effective method for own self motivation is simple - try methods that works for others and see if it works for you.
Also check out our RPG-like motivation game and leave feedback.

procrastination management techniques

there are a lot of different procrastination management techniques.
Some of them works some doesn't.

There is awesome internet resource
at berkeley university that gives ultimate list of procrastination management strategies.

But in my opinion the best technique is passion.
If you passion about something you are doing in fast, effective with joy and with lighting speed.
But passion is not always what we have, it's hard to get without pain.

So we can go with another value.If something has great value to us it can be done immediately.
But there is another problem with value - we alway looking for immediate reward.
If something has long term benefits , it looses value for us.

Is there way to increase value effectively.?
There is way to set self-rewarding system to increase value and beat procrastination.

But this is all boring stuff. What's about if we are playing game - there is no real value of winning
but we still motivated to do that.

Can we use motivation we have in game to manage procrastination?
Yes we can, we created motivation rpg-like game, and playing this game is equals staying productive.



Checkout the rules, try to install and play game.
Leave feedback , let us know if this works for you.