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Let me tell you something about myself, even though this isn't my personal blog: I'm not the most productive person in the world. Some people in my past life would have even gone so far as to say that I'm flat out lazy.

It's difficult for me to find the drive to finish projects. Oh, I start them a lot and get really excited about them, right up until I need to take the next step, at which point I lose my interest and just stop.

Or when it comes to the day-to-day things that I need to get done I just seem to forget that they need to get done and they linger in a zone of undoneness. It's a word.

Until recently.

About three weeks ago I discovered HabitRPG. For three weeks I've been more productive than any other productivity product has ever helped me be. The house is cleaner than it normally is, I've gained a few good habits (practicing poi/juggling every day, for example) and lessened a few bad ones (like overeating).

The thing I love most about HabitRPG, aside from it making productivity into a game, is how the "Dailies" work: I make a list of things I do at least once a week up to once a day, arrange the list how it works best for me, and then go through my day, step-by-step, with the list in front of me of what I need to get done that day. I've arranged it so that my daily to do list is in the order of the general flow of my day so I can just go down the list and check things off as they happen, then almost before I know it I'm done with everything I need to do and the day is done.

Meanwhile I'm leveling my character, destroying evil, buying new equipment, and talking/questing with the people in my party. It's social, fun, silly, and presses all the right buttons to get me to want to keep playing.

Yes, it still seems to be in an open beta phase; it's open-source and new things are being added all the time, which sometimes means a few bugs prop up. It's a little frustrating to find the tags (another way of ordering your to do lists) I've painstakingly set up on my tasks have been erased but that small frustration is well worth it.

I highly suggest giving the game a try. It may just change your life like it did mine. It sounds cliche but three weeks into it I have to say that it's shown me that I can be so much more than I have been up until now, and that's a life-changing realization if there ever is one.