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I Burned $50,000 Chasing “Freedom” — Here's What I Learned
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Today I Beat The Algorithm
The Algorithm Beat Me Today
My Love-Hate Relationship With Video Games 🎮❤️😤
How I Made Focus Feel Like A Game
Why You Can't Focus On Work/Study Like In Games
Designing My Days Off Changed My Life
The Doomer, The NPC, And the Player
🥲 I've Made A MASSIVE Mistake...
🟠 Money WILL Make You Happy -💠An OctaCore Insight
If Life Was a Business, I’d Feel Like a Failure
🎮 LGD Day Design Game – 🎁 My Gift To You!
The Gamer's Guide to Finding Purpose
The Gamer's Guide to Beating Procrastination
🥱You're Always Tired. Fix it with Game Design
How Life Design Led Me to Love
Hardcore Gamers and High Achievers Share These 4 Skills
The Gamer’s Guide to Running on No Sleep
How I Stopped Feeling Stuck by Designing Life Like a Game
How to Hack Your Brain to Enjoy Any Hard Task
The 5 Habits that Made Gamers Like Ali Abdaal Millions
Life Mastery Quest Pro / Ultra - By Life Game Design
Transform Life Into A Game
You're Addicted To Playing
Life Game Design - The 4-Stage Life-Mastery Quest
for ambitious procrastinators ready to level up in real life
You’ve Spent Years Mastering Games…
Now Master Your Life.
🎮 You're caught in an endless cycle
Hours disappear. Another day lost. 5 goals pushed to “tomorrow.”
You tell yourself:
"Just one more match."
"Just one more quest."
"I’ll quit next week
But that week never comes.
But it’s not your fault.
You're not lazy.
You're not broken.
You've just been playing the wrong game.
You've Tried to Fix your Life With Productivity instead of Gameplay
☐ A to-do list that only reminds you you’re behind
☐ A calendar app built for a 9-to-5 corporate robot
☐ A never-ending loop of guilt and shame every time you fall short
And you wonder why you keep quitting, reinstalling, feeling ashamed
and constantly repeating that sad cycle.
I wasted 2 years of my life listening to useless advice like:
“Stop being lazy.”
“Every hour of gaming is another hour wasted.”
“Just stop playing games and work on your goals.”
But none of that worked.
Because I wasn’t addicted to games.
I was addicted to a system that worked better than real life ever did.
Until now.
Remember those times when you couldn’t put down the controller?
You started playing around 2pm and suddenly it's 11pm at night.
And you STILL want to keep going.
That’s the magic of game design.
The Real Secret is a gameplay loop that keeps you engaged:
⚔️ Combat – Challenges that level you up
⚒️ Gathering – Crafting tools to grow stronger
🧭 Exploration – Discovering what’s next
Each loop builds momentum—and you crave the next step.
Life Game Design works the same way.
But instead of grinding in a fantasy world, you’re leveling up in your own.
Here’s how it works:
Vision: Just like in games where you set out on epic quests, the Vision games help you craft a clear picture of your future. You’ll create a vision board in 3 key stages and set long-term goals, clarifying your purpose in life.
OctaCore Vision Board
Design: Ever notice how games break down massive quests into small steps? This is why you spend hours diving into storylines. The Design games do the same for your goals. Life is not only a game that we play - it's one that we also need to design.
Week Design Highlights Dashboard
These games help you learn to Design Success into your days, weeks months and years, breaking each goal down into simple steps that turn into achievements tackling procrastination head-on.
Focus: In games, you have to focus to defeat bosses or complete difficult levels. The Focus games help you zero in on what goals matter most in your life and achieve them ASAP. Use the dedicated focus room to maintain deep concentration and avoid distractions.
Reflect: After a challenging level, you review what you did well and where you can improve. The Reflect game encourages the same practice in real life. Daily reflections help you learn from achievements and mistakes, improving self-awareness and growth.
Week Reflection Achievements Board
4 Key Productivity Problems for Ambitious Gamers:
- ⏳Procrastination: Gamers delay important tasks to game instead.
- 🧭Lack of Direction: Gamers struggle to set and chase long-term goals.
- 📉Lack of Visible Progress: Feeling stuck & not seeing big improvements IRL.
- 🥱Distractions: Difficulty focusing on simple tasks, getting sidetracked by games.
Traditional productivity tools feel like a chore and lack engagement.
You’ve tried them all, but they just don’t stick.
You end up spending more time trying to motivate yourself to use boring apps that look and feel like they were made for lifeless corporate robots rather than actually getting things done.
❌ Without the Mastery Games:
- Your favorite games are designed 100x better than your life so you retreat to them.
- You start your day with no clear direction, stuck in procrastination purgatory.
- The $50+ productivity system you bought is wasted, gathering digital dust.
- The effort you do put in feels meaningless because you're not rewarded.
✅ Powered by the Mastery Games:
- Vision: Your long-term goals are crystal clear.
- Design: Every day has a meaningful and achievable purpose.
- Focus: Deep concentration becomes enjoyable, distractions fade away.
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Reflect: Your Achievements highlight success, you get the drive to strive for more.
💖Love from Our Designers
As effective as the Mastery Games are,
without a way to understand life itself,
It’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture in the game of life .
The OctaCore Framework ties everything together.
Every life management/productivity app gives you (boring) tools to organize your life.
But none of them provide a framework to truly understand life itself.
Imagine having the best ingredients (Notion templates) in the world,
but no recipe (framework) to use them effectively.
From my experience as a professional chef I learned:
Without a recipe,
even the highest quality ingredients won't guarantee an amazing dish (a fulfilling life).
A recipe (framework) is the difference between a perfect soufflé and burnt eggs
Remember the time when you spent days or even weeks researching and testing different builds using the attribute system from RPGs like Skyrim or Fallout?
At the start you had no idea how to play.
But as you progressed, you precisely allocated points to different attributes,
constantly tweaking the build that would fit your unique playstyle.
You were excited to experiment, seeing how each choice affected your gameplay experience and overall character effectiveness. Even when you made mistakes, they turned into wisdom.
Then you finally found the perfect build for your unique playstyle.
You dedicated even more time to the game and were effortlessly productive in improving your character to the level of a god.
Just like how we all love different playstyles in games, what we find fulfillment from in life is unique to us and it shouldn't be influenced by other people.
Instead of listening to ego driven gurus manipulating their followers into a one-size-fits-all approach, you need a system that helps you discover and develop what truly matters to you.
Skyrim and Fallout wouldn't be the games are today if they forced us to play them in a certain way instead of letting us as players find out what we truly enjoy.
Fallout 4's Character Creation
OctaCore functions exactly like these attribute systems.
My Friend Derrick's OctaCore Stats
My Friend Josephs' OctaCore Stats
I created it to distill the lessons from best-selling self improvement books and turn all that knowledge into the kind of intuitive wisdom that us gamers resonate with.
If I asked you to create an attribute list for a melee character in Fallout or similar RPGs your mind would instantly light up with a specific plan.
It's so obvious to you but this surprises "normal people"
because they cannot comprehend your depth of knowledge.
Sadly that skill you have has never helped you in your real life.
Using OctaCore you gain that same intuitive wisdom for understanding how to organize and optimize all areas of your life.
All of this without having to read the 100+ Books needed to gain these insights.
OctaCore breaks down your life into the 8 Core areas required to design a fulfilling life.
allowing you to allocate focus and effort where it matters most.
🟣 Strength: Enhance your physical health and fitness.
🔵 Persistence: Manage all "Life Admin Tasks."
🟢 Experience: Make time for leisure and socializing.
㊗️ Creativity: Nurture your creative pursuits.
🔴 Contribution: Develop your professional skills and career.
🟠 Intelligence: Continually learn and upgrade your skills.
🟡 Attachment: Strengthen your closest relationships.
⚫ Life Force: Improve your mental health and understand spirituality.
With OctaCore, your life becomes as engaging and structured as your favorite RPG.
You’ll understand your goals, organize your tasks, and optimize every aspect of your life.
Each area works in harmony, ensuring you never lose sight of the bigger picture.
Just like learning a new game, mastering these systems can be hard.
Not to mention learning notion itself.
That's why I've built the worlds first and only gamified Notion tutorial course.!
It’s an interactive experience that takes you from zero to notion hero in less than an hour.
🎓N O T I O N C O U R S E
Learn Notion Through Play
Learning Notion is Overwhelming.
Your choice is to either face the behemoth by yourself.
Or learn 5 minutes of valuable information from 2 hour long Youtube videos.
Why is learning Notion so tough?
Because nobody has gamified the process—until now.
Course Breakdown
- 📈Practical Experience: Gain hands-on experience by applying what you learn immediately.
- 🖱️Interactive Lessons: Each topic is broken down into bite-sized, interactive lessons that guide you step-by-step.
- 🏆Achievement System: Completing each section of the course turns into an achievement within Life Game Design, setting the stage for your self-improvement journey.
🤯 What I'll say next will blow your mind.
No other notion template creator has the balls to compare their templates to competitors
because they've all made the same thing.
Just because you have an expensive and fancy "Life OS", doesn't mean your life will be organized because it depends on you using the system consistently.
Imagine you've invested in a "top-tier" life management system like the many copycat "Life OS", "Second Brain", and other popular Notion template options.
You start using it, thinking your money was well spent, experiencing blind optimism.
but after an hour it suddenly hits you.
Something is missing...
( as well as hundreds of dollars from your wallet)
You've created your tasks, set up your goals, and tried to use their dashboard.
But just like those productivity tools you tried before,
you find yourself slipping back into old gaming habits.
The system "works" but using it feels like work.
And you realize why gaming is greater than real life improvement.
It's Missing the Magic of Game Design.
The Actionable Frameworks within Life Game Design are features you won't find anywhere else.
Even if they are terribly copied in the future - they will never be as well designed.
I'm so confident in this that i will happily show you my top 1% competitors because
you'll look at what they're offering and realize that they're just clones of each other.
The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Gamers
Successful gamers aren’t just born – their Achievements are by Design.
They had same issues you have:
- 💸 Pouring too much time, money, and energy into games
- 📱 Spending countless wasted hours in front of a screen.
- 😨 Frustration and anxiety from constant procrastination.
- 😞 The guilt and shame of wasted potential.
But they found a way out.
They emerged successful, while you’re still in the same place.
Why? Because they adopted these habits.
The difference between you and them is simple.
They use games to enhance their lives,
while you let games dictate yours.
These habits are your path to change.
1. Designing Purpose
Dr. Alok Kanojia (Healthy Gamer GG) transformed his gaming addiction into a mission.
He created purpose by turning his passion for Dota 2 and other games to boost his career in psychiatry, helping popular gamers achieve mental well-being.
Dr. K created his success by altering his vision of gaming.
2. Applying Game Design to Life
Alex Hormozi, spent his early days grinding on the RPG Fable. He was broke, lost, and aimless.
Then he realized how his favorite games break down extremely complex quests into very small steps and applied that to his "Gym Launch" Business helping other gym owners earn millions.
Learning to break down big dreams into small steps got him from $50K / Year to $200M.
3. Deep Focus
Tom Bilyeu, from the Impact Theory Podcast, used gaming to escape his sad reality.
He discovered that the same consistency and strategic thinking required to succeed in gaming could be applied to building his billion-dollar brand - Quest Nutrition.
The Skill he developed from gaming to focus deeply and minimize distractions led to his success.
4. Continuous Learning
Ali Abdaal, Author, Productivity expert and Horizon Zero Dawn lover, Optimizes for Everything.
He applies the same curiosity and passion for learning that he uses in gaming to his career. In His Book - "Feel Good Productivity" he mentions his personal tips he used to beat procrastination and hone focus taken straight from game design.
Ali knew that he loved gaming because he loved learning, he just changed what he learned.
5. Quick Decision Making
Elon Musk, founding Tesla, Space X, often attributes his success to his quick decision-making.
As a gamer who seized opportunities in a game, Musk never let good opportunities pass him by. This ability to make swift, informed decisions has been crucial in his entrepreneurial journey.
Elon left everyone else on the ground while he skyrocketed his companies.
You can either follow their path or remain stuck,
letting games control your life.
The choice is yours.
1. Doomers: Dragged Down by their Addiction.
- They Procrastinate heavily on important priorities.
- Then Feel Guilty about wasting precious time.
- Eventually end up Gaming to Escape Reality.
2. Designers: Use Gaming to Transform Their Lives:
- They Apply gaming strategies to real-life goals.
- Then Achieve and see visible progress, building their confidence.
- Which leads to sustainable success - motivated and focused using gamified systems.
All the best RPGs give you real story choices with real good / bad outcomes.
This is a game-changing decision you'll have to make for your main quest in life.
Waste 100's more hours searching for, buying, and testing tools that weren't made for you.
Build a stack of achievements your proud of, use the mini games to make organizing fun, and utilize OctaCore to Optimize your life.
Frequently Asked Questions
General FAQs
1. Do I need to pay for Notion to use Life Game Design?
- No, Life Game Design works perfectly with Notion's free plan.
2. Will I receive updates for Life Game Design?
- Yes, you'll receive free updates forever for your version of Life Game Design. For example, if you buy Pro, you'll get all future Pro updates for free.
3. How do I get support?
- Support is provided through our exclusive community, where you can find tutorials, ask questions, and interact with other users.
4. Is my payment information secure?
- Yes, all transactions are encrypted and handled through secure payment processors.
5. Can I get a refund?
- Like most other Notion Template creators We do not provide refunds.
This is because our digital products can't be returned.
I encourage you to explore the details and demo videos before purchasing to ensure it meets your needs.
6. Can I use this with my team?
- Life Game Design is primarily intended for personal productivity, but you can use it with a team. Note that Notion's current limitations may mean your team can see personal tasks unless you set up individual page permissions.
Specific to Life Game Design
1. What makes Life Game Design unique?
- Life Game Design is the only Notion template that incorporates game design principles to make self-improvement engaging and rewarding. It includes frameworks like Achievements, Mini Games, and the OctaCore Framework, and also comes with the worlds first gamified Notion tutorial course!
2. How does the gamified Notion course work?
- The course is designed to teach you Notion through play. It’s structured like a tutorial level in a game, making learning interactive and enjoyable.
3. Can Life Game Design help with specific personal goals?
- Yes, the frameworks are designed to be flexible and can be tailored to suit your specific personal and professional goals.
4. Is there a community for Life Game Design users?
- Yes, purchasing Life Game Design gives you access to a supportive community where you can share experiences, get advice, and stay motivated.
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