HabitRPG and Tuesdays
Jan. 6th, 2015 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday is Cleaner Day, and I have done all the Cleaner Day tasks and the vacuum cleanering, even though the stupid thing is very noisy.
HabitRPG is doing a 'Spread the Word' thing, and I figured I'm happy to. I've been using it for ... actually I don't know, long? Long long. My character is level 54 and it takes a while to level up. And I use it every single day, and it is useful every single day.
I'm autistic and depressed, and that means I have trouble getting started doing things, and then I get lost at what bits of what things I have in fact done. My habits include things like 'drink liquids' because some days I can get to the evening and discover I've forgotten to do that. Laundry is split out into 'run laundry' and 'empty laundry', because, well, right now I'm on day 2 of forgetting to empty laundry, and that is not unusual. So having tick lists of things, all the things, every single day, is pretty important.
But, I usually just ignore the stupid things.
Because really, lists lists lists, so boring.
HabitRPG turns them into RPG quests, so I am not just ticking a box, I am slaying usefuls and getting XP for it. Also golds, but I never got the hang of thinking of stuff for the 'Rewards' column and so I have all the golds. Like, all. Deposit on a house levels of golds. And rewards are tricky when you're depressed enough that 'read a book' and 'watch some TV' are actually on your to-do list.
The best bit though is that making habits seems to work. Like, there are things in the habits column that I didn't do when I started the thing and that I now routinely achieve. Go me.
So today I have ticked off vacuuming, both parts for both rooms, and I have almost ticked off Cleaner Day, which is a complex 7 part habit that needs to wait for the actual cleaner to get here before I can complete it.
And you tell it what the habits and dailies and to-dos are, so if you don't feel the need to tick box your morning routine, you can use it for exercise or productivity or something.
... my to-do list just gets longer and redder and longer and redder, but that is the general condition of to-do lists, right?
*sigh*
My little character has earned armours and costumes and won pets and food that turns pets into mounts and so has all the pretties and all the friends. It's pretty cool. And somehow works as motivation when years of more ordinary checklists never did.
So, HabitRPG: actually pretty cool.
HabitRPG is doing a 'Spread the Word' thing, and I figured I'm happy to. I've been using it for ... actually I don't know, long? Long long. My character is level 54 and it takes a while to level up. And I use it every single day, and it is useful every single day.
I'm autistic and depressed, and that means I have trouble getting started doing things, and then I get lost at what bits of what things I have in fact done. My habits include things like 'drink liquids' because some days I can get to the evening and discover I've forgotten to do that. Laundry is split out into 'run laundry' and 'empty laundry', because, well, right now I'm on day 2 of forgetting to empty laundry, and that is not unusual. So having tick lists of things, all the things, every single day, is pretty important.
But, I usually just ignore the stupid things.
Because really, lists lists lists, so boring.
HabitRPG turns them into RPG quests, so I am not just ticking a box, I am slaying usefuls and getting XP for it. Also golds, but I never got the hang of thinking of stuff for the 'Rewards' column and so I have all the golds. Like, all. Deposit on a house levels of golds. And rewards are tricky when you're depressed enough that 'read a book' and 'watch some TV' are actually on your to-do list.
The best bit though is that making habits seems to work. Like, there are things in the habits column that I didn't do when I started the thing and that I now routinely achieve. Go me.
So today I have ticked off vacuuming, both parts for both rooms, and I have almost ticked off Cleaner Day, which is a complex 7 part habit that needs to wait for the actual cleaner to get here before I can complete it.
And you tell it what the habits and dailies and to-dos are, so if you don't feel the need to tick box your morning routine, you can use it for exercise or productivity or something.
... my to-do list just gets longer and redder and longer and redder, but that is the general condition of to-do lists, right?
*sigh*
My little character has earned armours and costumes and won pets and food that turns pets into mounts and so has all the pretties and all the friends. It's pretty cool. And somehow works as motivation when years of more ordinary checklists never did.
So, HabitRPG: actually pretty cool.
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Date: 2015-01-06 01:38 pm (UTC)Also, [hugs]