Every good fantasy story and RPGs include a band of adventurers facing danger together. In real life, we can have the same. Real-life party members help us battle our monsters and encourage us to work toward our goals. Who are your traveling companions and what RPG party roles do they fill? And if we are in a real-life RPG, how can we find other adventurers to share the journey with us? Remember, it’s dangerous to go it alone.

Our day-to-day can feel like a never-ending list of chores where it’s a struggle to be motivated and productive. But tying those boring tasks to a role-playing game can make it a lot more enjoyable. Here are 10 of the best RPG gamification apps for adding some adventure to your tasks.

Being true to yourself is so much more than just a nice quote and magically believing in yourself. But why is it so hard to be authentic? We wear these masks for work and society, sometimes I don’t know who I am. How to live authentically? Be yourself, be the true person underneath. But I admit, I often am not living authentically. It’s a struggle and one that I fail at again and again but keep trying.

How to stop procrastinating and get things done? We’ve all been there. A big project and the deadlines are looming, but we’re dragging our feet. We know we need to get to work but the struggle to get motivated and started feels like trying to walk through quicksand. Here are 10 ways to overcome procrastination to help you get unstuck and back on track.

“Dare to be different”. It’s a nice quote but what is the actual dare to be different meaning? It's hard to accept our true selves instead of being what is expected of us. We avoid it to stay “safe.” But playing Dungeons and Dragons taught me about being self-confident and accepting yourself. The true commonality is celebrating we’re all different and being happy when we dare to be ourselves.

We may not have dragons to slay and princesses to rescue in real life, but there are plenty of quests that we can take to improve our stats and be more successful.

Every day, we face a crossroads of how we will spend our future and if we will follow our dreams. But how to know you are on the right path? It isn’t always easy. Here is an analogy of the journey and choosing the right path. What are the signs of being on the wrong path? And how to choose the right path in life and follow our dreams?

Once the best, max-level gamers were once low-level newbies themselves. The making of greatness starts in humble beginnings. When searching for authenticity and meaning, look to your beginnings. Start finding your purpose by looking at your past. Here are some questions to search those childhood memories, so that you can work on remembering who you are by remembering who you used to be.

Is life an RPG? In role-playing games, you get to beautiful landscapes, exciting action scenes, fantastic stories, interesting characters, and best of all, be the hero. But what about real life? There's no magic or fiery steeds. But if life was a game, how would it compare to our favorite RPGs? Here’s a review of the game of life and why real life is the hardest RPG of all.

Self-discovery as the hero’s journey. Heroes in stories go on great adventures and return home heroic. We can take the steps that Joseph Campbell described in the Hero's Journey in our own search for purpose. It is not an easy journey, but no great adventure ever was. Starting with the Call to Adventure, we pack our bags and set forth on an adventure of authenticity to become our own hero.