My Life Nothing To Look At Here

Thought of this Lord of The Rings to-do list idea and immediately went to do it within the night.

How it works:

Score XP by doing QUICK, STANDARD, or MAJOR tasks that will move the meter (paper clip) on the extreme right. Once meter reaches 100, the top paper clip will indicate 100.

Once I’ve scored 1000, I get to slay a dragon and draw it in one of the circles. I just started so I’m currently at 39XP after 2 days.

“Slayer Combos” are actions that I can make in sequence (desired routine habits) to earn additional bonus points.

I wrote “3 task slayer combo +3” bottom left to mean that I get +3xp if I do 3 tasks in a row. I decided not to do that because I already have slayer combos. Plus I find myself motivated enough without this feature.

What about this works for me:

I struggle doing chores and I don’t like the idea of fulfilling a daily or weekly to do list only to have it wiped off and restarted, so I’m a lot more excited about this accumulative way of earning “tokens”.

Also I love LOTR so my first 2 days so far have been on a roll.

People should be able to take photos of their hands using their phones and post it on social media. I feel like that’s the true reality of the common life experience of people today. I almost never see posts of people’s true perspectives of what they often see and interact with. The reality is we aren’t smiling most of the time at ourselves (at least for the average person I know), what we see often is light from a screen.

I thank God I got a free automatic coffee machine and I just got beans so I have morning coffee now. I thank God I have time this weekend not rushing work (at least for this hour).

Life is not great but there are things I can do to make small things better — like simply doing the laundry, cleaning the floor, tidying up my study tables. And then maybe to be just slightly more updated about work for Monday.

So many things ahead that I’m scared about (my wife’s depression, my own anxieties, people just asking a lot of me because I’m a teacher), but today I can do these things with God’s help.

I need to remember these are things I can do … the rest I let faith lead. Matt 6:34.