Thinking of planning your life's goals in the new year? Try gamifying all of that so that getting things done and making progress is an adventure. No need for a planner if life is a game!
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Links to articles, videos, etc that explain the benefits of gamifying your life
This is an excellent article about sustainably gamifying your life. Sustainability is key here to continual progress.
How To Actually Gamify Your Life (A Game Designer’s Guide)
Another great approach to gamifying your life and achieving your goals. I like building on small steps like she recommends.
How To Gamify Your Life
A book about transferring our game-playing skills to our lives. Reviewers say that this book appeals most to young adult readers.
SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully
Fun read about making yourself the hero of your own life. Epic game-ification!
Level Up Your Life: Unlock Adventure & Happiness
A LiFE RPG template for use in Notion. Looks pretty cool! On my list for 2026 tools.
How to Gamify with Notion LiFE RPG
This vlogger's ADHD videos are amazing. Here she discusses how game-ifying one's life can help those with ADHD become more productive in engaging ways.
How to Turn Your Life Into a Video Game
Here's a free system of gamifying your life by using Google docs and NotebookLM.
I used NotebookLM to gamify my life — and it actually worked
A 2025 list of gamifying apps
Top 10 Gamified Productivity Apps for 2025
I love using NotebookLM for my notes, articles I need to read, etc. I love this idea of uploading my journal entries and creating a points system from them.
NotebookLM Dungeon Master: Personal Life Gamification System
How to use gamification for motivation.
Gamify: How Gamification Motivates People
This looks like a fun read about gamifying life.
Gamify Your Tasks: Kick Life's Ass
Systems to Gamify Life
This is a free app designed to help you achieve your goals through game-ification. I'm trying it out now. So far so fun.
Habitica: Gamified Habit Tracking for a Better You
Use Notion to turn your life into a cozy game
Cozy All-In-One Gamified Life Planner
A weekly gamified planner to make executive function fun and achievable.
The Game of Life: Weekly Planner & Journal
A gamification journal a week at a time.
Gamify Your Week: Weekly RPG Planner & Monsters
A vision board bingo card? What a fun way to track progress toward goals. PDF digital download.
2026 Vision Board Bingo Card Printable, Goal Setting Planner, Vision Board Cards, Manifestation Template, New year intention worksheet
Another vision board bingo card. This is editable with Canva so you can make a new one every week or month. PDF digital download.
2025 Vision Bingo Card, Vision Bingo, New Year Bingo Card, Neutral Vision Card
A very cool steam punk looking set of files to gamify a budget. Digital download.
Gamified Financial Planner | Undated Budget Spreadsheet PDF | Income + Bills + Debt Savings & Spending Tracker [DIGITAL ONLY]
Gamify getting those thoughts out of your head and onto paper (or into a file). Earn gems along the way. PDF digital download.
