User blog comment:Taldin/Here we go again.../@comment-24838008-20150524111832

It’s often difficult to get the feeling and emotions right from the written message. However, I believe I understand what you are talking about.

I've given up lift.do because its main motivation method is perhaps the same keeping-the-streak thing. And it’s very frustrating to miss a goal. It reminds me of some emotions from my childhood. I had a constructing toy like this - for kids who like designing blocks of flats. It was a soviet kind of toys and you often had to apply some additional force to attach the pieces together. Now imagine a 22-storey building –resulting from 2-3 hours’ worth work – falling apart back into individual pieces because you failed at attaching the roof… That's why I consider this type of motivation very risky.

HabitRPG is meant to make our lives better and it creates a wide range of mostly positive emotions of accomplishments if you do well. However it also does provide the pattern which may help to overcome the slowdowns or fallbacks of our self-improvement. In game your avatar can lose level, some equipment, but stay in game and proceed to level-up. However it’s not the point. I’m under strong influence of the phrase by Lisa: “Whatever you do, may you always strive to do it for the right reasons. :) ” For me it means that I’m not trying to get the badge to obtain the badge itself. Badge or other achievement is just a gamified symbol representing my effort. If I don’t get a badge, I still know I have put much effort in… reaching the goal behind the badge. And it’s great I still have this virtual incentive representing my real achievements to come.

In case of helping HabitRPG to grow I want to share my wonderful experience here with people who may experience difficulties with the site – language issues, misunderstanding the features etc. As I’m trying to improve my own experience, I feel I may have some more thoughts to share.

If you feel you would like to slow down a bit for a moment – I believe it’s OK. All of us need some rest from time to time. When I’m down I review the list of my tasks and limit it to only the ones I personally really need and would like to see accomplished. Then I look through the challenges of the guilds that help you make life more enjoyable – and add some inspiring tasks. (now try to guess how many times a week I tend to feel down…)

Please excuse me, if I got something wrong, in the end, I just wanted to remind you that you can always just seat back and relax in the friendly atmosphere of HabitRPG - and your inspiration will come to you naturally. There are many nice people here – fun and very comfortable to hang out with.

And you are an amazing person Taldin! Keep it up!