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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good. I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment
for this week, and we're going to talk about turning
your to do list and we're specifically going to drill
down on eating well into a game, so gamification of
your to do list. Now, this is a bit of
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a bit of a random idea, but it's been inspired
by my kids because in recent months Snares and I
have had great success by creating a little chart that
we put up in the pantry. We have effectively gamified
their little to do list. And we're not talking about
painting the house. They have to rush their teeth before
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they go to bed, they have to unpack their school
bag when they get home, they have to eat all
their lunch in their lunch box. Just simple things like
that that are important for little growing girls or boys.
But it's actually been really engaging for them. We've had
huge success with it. Snares has found it to be
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totally revolutionary, and it got me thinking, why don't we
do simple things like this as adults. I was chatting
with the wonderful Bree who I'm in the studio with
at the moment, who's producing this podcast, and she said
to me last week. I've never thought that we have
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twenty one meals seed in a week, and actually, just
simplifying it, we don't want to be perfect, we want
to have progressed. So choose whether it's fourteen fifteen, sixteen
ish healthy meals and then the rest you can kind
of eat what.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You like, you know, within reason.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And that was just a really simple way of putting
it in a conversation that we had and it's been
really sort of eye opening and helpful, and I thought,
you know what, why don't we then gamify that for ourselves. Well,
we can gamify any goal. We're talking about goals, we
know they need to be smart, so specific, measurable, attainable, realistic,
and timely. So if we then focus down on the
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goal of eating healthily and we go all this twenty
one meals in a week, breakfast, lunch, dinner, seven days
a week to get twenty one what is a measurable
goal set by us that is realistic, that's going to
keep us on track from a healthy perspective, And then
let's gamify it in a really simple way. Every time
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I eat a healthy meal, I get a tick in
a box, I get a star in a box.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You might even put two.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Dollars or five dollars in a little money box and
at the end of the week, OK, I ate sixteen
healthy meals two dollars, that's thirty two dollars. I can
treat myself with something, or I do that for a month.
There's one hundred and twenty eight dollars. I can get
myself a massage or whatever it might be. So there's
really simple ways that we can gamify things, and it
does two things. It keeps us more accountable, but it
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also keeps us much more aware. So when you game
a fight with your stars or your ticks or your
points or your five dollars in the piggybank, whichever way
you want to do it, it really does make us
aware on a day to day and a week to
week basis. And again, part time commitment is going to
give you part time results. So you can't say to yourself, oh,
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I'm going to be really realistic and I'm going to
choose five healthy meals a week, because if you only
eat five healthy meals a week, that's going to be
sixteen unhealthy meals a week and it's probably.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Not going to move the needle to where you want
to move it to now.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
If you're starting at a zero, you might start with
ten healthy meals a week, and then.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
After four weeks that you're up at thirteen or.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Fourteen, and you keep gamifying it as you get better
and as you get some really good healthy habits in place,
and you don't have to tick it off three times
a day. You just get to your little chart at
the end of each day and you go, all right, yep,
breakfast was really good, I had a healthy porridge tick
and lunch, yep, I give it, you know, And again,
it doesn't have to be Well's healthiest lunch.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
If it was a pretty good healthy choice with some veggies.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And some protein and wasn't full of high sugar, high
fat process foods.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
That's kind of where it gets across.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You tick it off and you might have an extra
one for alcohol free. So obviously twenty eight's my favorite number.
Maybe it's out of twenty eight, because if it's an
alcohol free day, you get an extra tick. So you're
going for four ticks as a possible total score of
a day, and you might say, yep, if I get
a score of twenty or above, that's a.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Massive success for me.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Your listener task for the next seven days is to
gamify your eating with a goal that you have set,
not one that I've set. All right, you're not comparing
yourself to what Susie down the road does. You're not
comparing yourself to what your husband or your boyfriend or
your partner does. It's what you do by the score
that you you said, based on two criteria, is it
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realistic and is it actually enough to give me healthy change?
And if you can answer confidently yes to both of
those questions, that's your magic number.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Do that for seven days. Report back in. We'll keep
everybody accountable as we do here on the Woodlife, and
I can't wait to hear how you go