Gamify Your Habits For a Happier Life

In this episode, Chris from The Standard App welcomes Will Moore. Will is a good friend, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host, and a habits, happiness, and behavioral science/gamification expert. Will has designed an app that will “gamify your happiness” by combining behavioral science, universal principles, and technology to make it fun and ethically addicting to replace your habits in the 5 Areas Of Life. Will’s mission is to help both individuals and businesses become the happiest and best versions of themselves and to pay it back to help the rest of the world do the same.

You’ll hear about Will’s personal routines, mantras, and check-ins, acronyms that help you get out of negative mindsets and accomplish goals, and some universal truths around the five core areas of happiness.

Discussion Points:

1. The importance of habits and mindset

2. ‘Growth owners’ vs. ‘fixed victim’ mentalities

3. Will’s mindset and being a former pessimist

4. CBRP - Catch the thought, breathe, remind/reflect, and pivot

5. The 5 core areas for happiness - mindset, relationships, career, finances, and emotional/physical health

6. Replacing failure habits with success habits

7. Will’s best habit today

8. Time/place habits and non-time/place habits

9. Visual cues for habits

10. CORE - Commit, obstacles, and reward

11. Thoughts vs. physical sensations of anxiety

12. Breathing to reset your mind

13. Growth and balance

14. Universal truths around the 5 core areas

15. Regrets at the end of life

16. Looking at the end of your life and re-aligning habits

17. Starting small, and replacing bad habits

18. Will’s current bad habit he’s working on

19. AI for writing

20. James Clear and Atomic Habits

21. What habit would you wish for all humans?