The System

Questify Your Life (the system) uses gamification techniques, positive psychology research, and neurodiversity principles to make life more fun and doable. After years of doing this, founder Sierra Grandy has created a multi-tiered system that she calls “Questify Your Life” where she creates quests in her life to focus on the goals that follow her values. The goal of this system is to encourage goal completion in a form that is fun, with an emphasis on the importance of play and creativity.

This system is roughly split up into three parts, Journey, Character, Quests. A brief overview of the system is below.

If you want more of a step-by-step guide, please see this Substack article called “A Mini-Guide On How To Questify Your Life.”

Life is about the journey, not the destination. This system is built to reflect that.

The journey incorporates flexibility and expanding “journey principles” like:

There is almost no right or wrong way to do a quest. The doing part is the most important
Change is inevitable
There is hardly ever an option of going back, but you can move forward
Failure is a part of the process and so is success
Don’t go at it alone
You are allowed to rewrite or restart a quest
You do not have to finish all started quests. Knowing when to unpin a quest and move on to the next time is an important skill.
Many of the most mundane quests are worth going on, all of your quests do not need to be impressive or extravagant
All quests are equal (most of the time)
Keep an eye out for the comparison trap— your quest is unique to you
You can not do all of the things you want to do all at once—slow and consistent is the way to build mastery
Your quests will change as you do

The journey also includes physical documentation and the day-to-day execution of quests. This includes game boards, badges, reward systems, and how to level up.

Character focuses on who you are as you travel around this realm.

This includes, in no particular order:

Aesthetics

What you look like to the outside world.

Simple But Not Easy

There are some quests in life that are simple, but not easy. Like going to sleep at a regular time every evening, getting exercise regularly, meditating, etc.

Acceptance

There are some things that we just cannot change about ourselves. Working on self-compassion and self-acceptance are important quests.

Personas

A fun way to intentionally focus your energy and actions in a way to further your quests. For example, you may choose to be a “Hobbit” when cleaning or a “Bard” when performing.

Quests are how you spend your time.

What type of goals do you want to achieve? What do you want to learn? Everything can be a quest.

What counts as a quest is flexible. But, to simplify a quest is a search for something. It is the curiosity that brings movement to your journey.

Compare this to a game. A game adds a challenge and a reward to something to make it more fun.

Most quests include games, but not all games are quests.

For example, founder Sierra Grandy’s three main quests right now are: (1) Speaking and consulting on neurodiversity, disability, and mental health recovery topics, (2) Services, products, and content related to Questify Your Life, and (3) Volunteering, advocacy, and pro bono work to better those in her community.

Dragon Quests

The Questify Your Life System also encourages all adventurers to go on Dragon Quests.

A Dragon is a social justice passion that you focus your energy on. If you choose one and find a community to help fight that dragon you will, hopefully, be able to successfully fend off the feeling of burnout related to the terrifying amount of social justice issues that plague the world.

To learn more about Dragon Quests, please see this Substack article about How to make a difference in your world without destroying yourself: Dragon Quests.

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