If you don’t play video games that much, RPG stands for Role Playing Game.

RPG games work as follows. At the start of the game you choose for youself a basic character with some basic skills and abilities. Most RPG games are fantasy based, so you’d get something like an Elf, that has a greater initial speed, agility and is good with bow and arrows, a dwarf which is strong and is good with axes, humans that are sort of in between, or whatever the case may be.

You then proceed on your adventure through the game’s virtual world accepting challenges and helping people while earning money to buy your character equipment and keep him alive, and at the same time getting experience from the challenges he/she faces improving the their abilities.

These improved abilities through experience and increased money then enable you to accomplish ever more difficult and lucrative challenges.

Isn’t this the primary basis for real life personal development?

One cannot go from never exercising and being unfit to rigorously exercising everyday to accomplish the expert personal fitness straight away. We need to take it step by step. Build your skills and abilities up from the beginner level you currently are to the expert level you want to be at.

If you’ve ever played the game The Sims you’ll know what I mean.

So lets try this, pretend you are an RPG character and you start your game in Life. You have some basic starting abilities and skills, and you can follow a map of different skills you can acquire and what is required for you to achieve them and what you will be able to do once you’ve achieved them.

You may want to take examples and inspiration from The Sims as it is most resembles real life that the rest of the fantasy RPG games out there.You can give yourself rewards for reaching the next skill level in each category and penalize yourself for going down skill level. Make it fun.

I’m going to write down my RPG character and game rule, and I’d like you to try the same and share it with us.

The key to personal development, or any sort of life skill for that matter, is consistency and perseverance, I believe. Unfortunately I’ve been rather slacking in the consistency department lately, when it comes to this blog.
As I mentioned before, I started on my “one-sentence journal”, however that didn’t turn out as easy to keep up as I hoped, but then again I’ve never been much of a journal person. Blogging is my journal.

And to get to the point of this post, so that I don’t just go on blabbing about nothing, there is a few links I’d like to share with you all which I’ve found especially share worthy.

There wass a post from ProBlogger recently which I found especially succinct in explaining my situation on this blog at the moment. When it feels like nobody’s reading your blog

Also, If you haven’t seen the following flash videos from Possibility Virus, I highly recommend you watch them . They’re quite inspirational and highly entertaining

• The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
• 5.75 Questions You’ve Been Avoiding

Have fun.

Woot! I just got back from a 4 day trip canoeing on Orange River. I’m sore and tired, but I had a great time and definitely look forward to doing it again sometime in the future. I uploaded some pictures I took from my cellphone to flickr, so you can have a look at a few of the photos so far, but there’s lots more to come.
Still to come are pictures taken from the River Guides (those will be some good shots, as they’ve got pictures of us in the rapids) and others in our group.