Previous articleIn this article, we explained how “Tanuki Mileage” and “Tanuki Mileage Plus” in “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” allow players to enjoy achieving their goals and developing in a world with a high degree of freedom.
In this article, we will introduce how to actually implement the Animal Crossing Tanuki Mileage system into the real world.
The method introduced in this article is the author’s proposal of arranging the in-game mission structure of “Animal Crossing” in a way that can be carried out in a fun way in the real world, so it is best to feel free to try out only the ones that touch your heart, without trying to do them all.Of course, I am also doing this.This is a recommended method that I am confident will be very fun and lead to positive daily accumulation.
Set your own missions (tasks)
The biggest difference between real-life task management and Tanuki Mileage missions is:Is there a pre-prepared mission?is.
Medium- and long-term goals, which correspond to “Tanuki Mileage,” are prepared in advance by the game, but in real life, you should basically set your own goals yourself.
In games, you can set goals that are easy to work toward, but setting the right goals for yourself requires a surprising amount of experience and sense.
In this case, you should be fine if you take full advantage of the big advantage of setting your own goals, that you can reset them as many times as you like, and work towards creating good goals.
Setting medium- and long-term goals (Tanuki Mileage Mission)
If you have a specific goal you want to achieve in work, study, hobbies, etc., you should set it first.If you don’t have anything like this at the moment, it would be a good idea to set a goal as a Tanuki Mileage Mission that you think you can achieve in order to live a safe and prosperous life, such as “reducing your health checkup numbers to below XX” or “increasing your income by XX million yen.”
It’s okay to have many medium- and long-term goals.
Just like the Animal Crossing Tanuki Mileage mission, set as many medium- and long-term goals as you want to achieve.
Of course, there will be differences in the importance of each medium- to long-term goal.In this method, which is based on the mechanism of Tanuki Mileage, even if you set many missions, basically all mid- to long-term goal missions are treated as being of equal importance.
You may feel reluctant to treat “goals that you want to achieve no matter what” and “goals that are so aspirational that you feel like you’ll make money if you can achieve them” in the same way, or you may worry that you may forget important goals by setting too many.However, if you spend your days setting tasks that match your mid- to long-term goals, you will never forget them.
Maintenance of medium- and long-term goals
Tanuki Mileage’s missions in the game are very well done, but in order to use it in real life, you need to pay attention to the following three points and perform maintenance from time to time.
- Review your list of goals regularly
- When you look back, make sure you know what your goal is.
- If you have a goal you want to increase, increase it, and delete goals you don’t need to aim for.
By doing this, you will naturally be able to set the number of medium- and long-term goals that suit you.The maintenance cycle is up to you, but it may be sufficient to check it once a week at first, and then once a month once things have calmed down.
Even more than living on a deserted island in Animal Crossing, our lives in the real world have a much higher degree of freedom.In order to enjoy life to the fullest, increase the number of mid- to long-term goal missions as much as you like, and feel free to rewrite them according to the situation!
Set 5 tasks for today (Tanuki Mileage Plus)
Set 5 missions (tasks) that can be easily accomplished today.
In order to get closer to your medium- to long-term goals for Tanuki Mileage, we will set 5 tasks that you can accomplish today.You can start with any of these five.Of course, in real life, there is often a set order in which things need to be done, so you may be able to change them flexibly.
Make sure you can see only 5 things to do today/right now.
Set tasks that correspond to Tanuki Mileage Plus missions so that you can get closer to your medium- to long-term goals every day by repeating their accomplishments.The important thing here is to narrow down the items you want to work on, similar to the items displayed on Tanuki Mileage Plus.
There are many things you need to do in order to achieve your big mid- to long-term goals.Toward that end, you will need to make small efforts every day and repeat them over the medium to long term.
Even if you have a lot of small tasks lined up, it’s okay if you can tackle them fearlessly and calmly.(GTD recommends that idea)
However, in this article, we will introduce a method using the structure of Animal Crossing as a reference, so let’s narrow down the number of small tasks that can be seen at a time to about 5.
Include one or two particularly easy bonus missions
Among the five missions of Tanuki Mileage Plus, there is a bonus mission that can be completed in just a few seconds and allows you to easily earn miles.
Let’s also set tasks that correspond to these bonus missions.If you have a list of tasks that you feel comfortable tackling, it’s a good idea to set them.
It’s a good idea to flexibly adjust the number of bonus missions you add to the five to suit your own nature and tone, but it’s a good idea to start by mixing in one or two bonus missions out of the five.
If you can’t come up with a bonus mission, you can try adding tasks by simply taking breaks or hobbies.In any case, it is important that the task be one that you feel happy working on.
The granularity is just right so that you can say, “It doesn’t matter where you start.”
When setting up the 5 Tanuki Mileage Plus missions, you should be especially careful not to set any of the 5 tasks that will be difficult to tackle.
For example, it is a fun idea to draw lots to decide which of the five things to do.However, when drawing lots, if there are things mixed in that make you think, “I wouldn’t want to win this task,” then you should think that the setting of that mission is not very good.
If you feel like you can accomplish four out of five tasks in about 30 minutes, but one of those tasks seems like it will take half a day to complete and the content isn’t very fun, you might want to reconsider the granularity of that task.
It’s important to make these difficult tasks easy enough to accomplish in the same amount of time as other tasks.Let’s divide the difficulties into parts.
reference: “Handshake” ~ Divide up difficulties ~ | | Task management partner [BizLibrary]
On the other hand, even if it is a difficult task that requires more time than others, if you can tackle it as easily as other tasks that can be completed in a short amount of time, you may not need to set the estimated time.It is recommended that you have a level of granularity that makes you feel comfortable starting from any point, rather than time.
The most difficult thing is how to set up the mission.
In this way, it is a task management method using the Tanuki Mileage system that will bring you closer to your goals in a fun and effective way if you execute it, but as I wrote at the beginning, the most important thing is to set the tasks for the mid- to long-term goals and the five missions to be executed on that day.
If you need help creating tasks, please leave it to me.
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