The document discusses framing life as a game by leveraging social media and game mechanics to encourage positive habits. It provides examples of apps and tools that can be used to: 1) Make desired habits into gameplay that provides immediate feedback to the player 2) Set achievable goals and provide context-based reminders to work towards goals 3) Populate goals by following programs created by experts to form foundational habits 4) Provide integrated tools that give feedback and incentives to track habits and practice them routinely.

1. Habitually Healthy Leveraging Social Media and Game Play Mechanics to Frame Life as a Game habits.stanford.edu Benjamin Olmsted

2. Framing life as a game requires: Achievable goals Goal tracking Recognition of Achievement/Rewards

3. First: a real game The Magi and the Sleeping Star http://themagigame.net/features.html The Magi and the Sleeping Star has the players perform the desired habit (blood sugar management) on the gameplay character, who has type 1 diabetes. His powers are directly linked to his blood sugar levels: poor management, no magic spells. The immediate feedback (loss of magic) is easier to experience than mood changes, lack of mental alacrity, etc which are the feedback in real life. The tools managing the blood sugar in game are easy to use, habituating the player to the process without them having to overcome social stigma or blood draw pain.

4. 2) Goal Achievement Framework: iWill http://www.sudsoftsystem.com/Sud_Soft_System/iWill.html The application has the normal secretarial Functions of a reminder app but with the added bonus of context based reminders. The ability to be reminded of a goal when you are IN A CONTEXT WHERE YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT is extremely powerful, as it acts as a hot trigger for location based habits.

5. 3) Populate goals https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits-habit1.php Populate the achievement, Either with a resources, such as 7 habits of highly effective people, or Lifehacker or some other tool. Finding basic habits that will help form habits later on, such as practicing focus, could be invaluable. It also makes things simpler, by following a path someone else has created.

6. 4) Find integrated tools iPhone Meditation Timer http://www.meditate.mx/iphone Very simple timer set-up Built in stat tracking This meditation timer give the user immediate feedback and incentive to practice.

7. 5) Win Gratitude Stream http://www.signalpatterns.com/iphone/gratitude_stream_std.html Shows a stream of gratitude from other users and lets the user enter into the stream themselves By using the cloud as the recipient, the user can express gratitude, while feeling like they are contributing to something larger. This essentially a social reward for a win state (gratitude).

8. Life: a game Life as a game becomes more simple. While any regimen could be chosen, the tools I have listed here would be for positive mental health habits, an anti-glum game, if you will.