I suck at getting things done. I want to be productive, but I’m just bad at it. There, I said it. I’m the type of person with dozens of half-finished projects and impulsively-bought hobby items that I swore I would actually use, but end up inevitably forgotten in a drawer somewhere. I’m sure you can relate. Aren’t you supposed to be doing something else right now?
I find that by making my goals more like a game, I become more likely to actually finish them. Thus, I’ve made myself a bingo sheet of some thing I had meant to complete in the past but never got around to.
B-I-N-G-O!
I used Bingo Baker to make this card. You wouldn’t believe how many shitty bingo card maker sites that require log-in or purchase are out there, but this one was sufficient.
Anyway, here are my goals in list form:
- Learn a song on piano
- Draw a fox every day
- Make homemade pizza
- Draw a sticker
- Self-publish a book
- Update CSS for blog
- Create a 3D game object in Blender
- Mod a video game
- Clean and organize the apartment
- Make a video game for Max 🙂
- Creating a quilling card
- Make an educational video
- Finish 2022: A Sauce Odyssey
- Make macarons
- Tie-dye a shirt
- Draw bonfire tattoo idea
- Convert alinda.dev to use Flask
- Write a simple 4 chord song
- Work on a fun Spring project
- Develop an Android app
- Paint a miniature
- Finish Journey to the West
- Finish Dark Souls 2
- Finish a book
- Wild Card – Choose your own goal for the week!
So, I won’t be playing bingo the same way it’s traditionally played. I will be using a random number generator to generate a number 1-5 for B-I-N-G-O, respectively, and then another number 1-5 for each row (from top to bottom). Repeats will be re-rolled.
I will give myself a limit of 1-2 weeks to complete a task, and will write a post to detail my efforts.
For each “Bingo!” I get, I’m going to take a page from Tom and Donna’s book to “TREAT YO’SELF” by rewarding myself with something nice. I haven’t finished creating a list of rewards for myself yet, but I’ll update this post once I do. It’ll take at least 5 weeks minimum to get a bingo anyway.
As I am currently out-of-town, there may be some tasks I can’t complete. Should that be the case, I will save the task for the following week (or push it further should I still be blocked in some way).
First Draw
Anyway, let’s see what my first call is! From the generator, I got a 4 (G) and a 1. Our first task is to Finish a book. Ah, well that’s unfortunate because I wanted to read one of the physical books I had at my apartment. I’m going to save this for when I get back in a couple of weeks and re-roll.
Next result – 3 (N), 4. Make a video game for Max! Ooh this one should be fun. 🙂 I’m not sure about what sort of art assets I should use as I don’t have my tablet with me, so making art will be a bitch, but I suppose I can always use free assets.
Here’s my next post to detail out the game.
Hope I can stick to this!