{"id":80,"date":"2022-01-05T23:57:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/claudiachan.co\/?p=80"},"modified":"2022-01-05T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:57:15","slug":"life-lessons-learnt-ffxiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evercraftleather.com\/claudiachan\/life-lessons-learnt-ffxiv\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Life Lessons I learned from Playing Final Fantasy XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I started playing FFXIV at the end of November 2021, and after playing for about 10 times (around 4-5 hours each), I reached level 51 in the main story on Dec 25, 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(To give you some perspective, my husband has been playing for 3-4 years and he just recently reached Level 62 in the main story. Of course, his character is way stronger in all other areas (Level 60+ in various jobs and tasks, while mine is only in 1 area.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, I am very impressed with myself, and even though it is just a game, here are 4 Life Lessons I took away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Deliberately Choose What My Heart Wants!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the easiest thing to say, but not so easy to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I wasn\u2019t programmed to do what I want!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was programmed to do what everyone else said I should be doing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, my mom, school, work, culture, society.. all of them dictated how I should behave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this many years of \u201ctraining\u201d, I barely knew who I was, let alone what I want! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why we need to get back into knowing who we are. Doing what we truly want to do is the truest definition of ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, I felt a tug of desire to play after my husband created a character for my son. I felt it and said, Hey, I want to build my own character too, I want to play the game too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I chose to do it. That was power.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Plan for It, Use It as a Reward!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this game, I definitely planned for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I didn\u2019t plan for it, 2 things would have happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would either: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

a) stop myself from playing the game, because part of me didn\u2019t want to do the work. I knew if I don\u2019t finish my work, my guilty conscience wouldn\u2019t let me play in order to \u201cpunish\u201d myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

or <\/p>\n\n\n\n

b) indulge so much into the game that I\u2019d totally ignore my work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So by scheduling it, the game is now my reward. Once I get my work done, then I can play for the rest of the night! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. Going All In to Play Hard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love achievements, that\u2019s why I love playing games. That\u2019s why once I start playing a new game, I go all in! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I reached level 50, I crashed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contempt was the first to set in. I felt so disgusted with myself! My first thought was, \u201cOMG\u2026 I \u201cwasted\u201d all these time to play this game!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to reason with myself to say, \u201cNo, I deliberately scheduled to play!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I had to lovingly change my thought from, \u201cI wasted all this time\u201d to \u201cI am someone who play hard, work hard, rest hard!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. Celebrate Myself<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I love the feeling of achievements, it\u2019s not a surprise that I was placing more importance on the end goal instead of the journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And even though I\u2019d achieved so much by getting to level 50, I was not proud of myself at all. I gave myself 0 credit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I had to get myself to celebrate everything about myself!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019re a few things about me that I celebrated: \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n