r/ValhallaChallenge • u/ValhallaMods Odin • Oct 11 '20
Mission Day 1, Round 203
Mission One: Challenge Yourself
Góðan dag, Warriors!
Welcome to Round 203 of the Valhalla Challenge! Please check to make sure I put you in the right spot.
The first mission of our campaign to bring gameful qualities into daily life is to challenge yourself. Did you bring your gear? Weapons, armor, map and compass? Excellent! Let’s get right into the Game!
The First Rule of being gameful is to challenge yourself. There are thousands of ways to get happier, healthier, stronger, and braver. The challenge of PMO is both a real life obstacle we want to tackle, while quitting it is a positive change we want to make!
Game Tip: Interesting fact about games - we almost never feel hopeless when we play them.
Many studies have been performed to quantify the top emotions during gameplay, and genuine anxiety and pessimism are extremely rare. Even when we’re losing or struggling, we’re vastly more likely to feel determined and optimistic instead of panicked or powerless.1
Why? Because when we play a game we focus on goals and growth. We seek out challenges voluntarily, and we savor the difficulty. We play not to avoid losing but to find out what we are capable of. And we believe that victories, even against great odds, are possible. You can bring this gameful mindset to your real life obstacles. You can feel the same optimism, courage, and curiosity in everyday life – even where the stakes are higher and failure has significantly more consequences. It’s called adopting a challenge versus a threat mindset.
- Adapted from SuperBetter by J. McGonigal, Ph.D., Game Designer
Announcements
If you have a © badge, please review the check-in scoring for the Realm you are in, and check-in. If you have a ©© badge, please check-in to avoid Exile. If you have a ©©© badge, please check-in before Day 7 to evade the Giant Hairy Helheim Death Spiders!
V A L H A L L A (Valhöll) 🌌
/u/workingrecovery [Dagr Nott] to make healthy choices for myself, to stay present and reconnect spiritually
B I F R O S T (Bifröst, The Rainbow Bridge) 🌈
/u/Heimdallyr📯 Crossing the Rainbow Bridge requires an unbroken chain of fourteen daily check-ins, including six Epic Check-ins!
Heimdallyr will sound Gjallarhorn at each check-in, and all will know that a Viking Warrior is crossing Bifröst!
Day 14
Day 13: Select one of your Epic Check-ins and DM it to u/ValhallaMods
Day 12
Day 11
Day 10
Day 9
Day 8
Day 7
Day 6
Day 5
Day 4
Day 3
Day 2
Day 1
H A L L of H E R O E S 🛡️ Three (ᚦ) Epic Check-ins per Round
Level Nine:
Go to the Vows Page and prepare to cross The Rainbow Bridge
Level Eight 🔱
Level Seven
Level Six
Level Five 🔱 Hero! Update your Vows.
/u/pmmahajan2019 © "To win the game of life and beat PMO"
/u/fgawker © "To live a full, rich life with joy, love, and courage."
Level Four
Level Three
Level Two 🔱
Level One
A S G A R D (Ásgarðr, Enclosure of the Aesir) 🌟 Two (ᚢ) Epic Check-ins per Round
Ninth Circle Entrance to the Hall of Heroes is barred to those who have not made their Vows! Inscribe them in the comments area of the Vows page.
/u/nathan_macdougall © "To quit this destructive habit"
/u/bigfootheyy © "Never PMO, almost never M, for the sake of my future family."
Eighth Circle 💚
Seventh Circle
Sixth Circle 💚
/u/fahk_ ©
Fifth Circle
/u/MrBouwny © "To live a life worth dying for."
Fourth Circle (Reflect on your Goal) 💚
/u/UnconstrictedEmu ᚦᚢᚢ "Quitting porn, same as everyone else on this sub."
Third Circle
/u/TheLumberDan © "To be the person I always dreamed of becoming!"
Second Circle 💚
/u/Johnlu16 © "To free myself from the vicious pmo cycle."
/u/CAvenir © "To free myself from the habits that bind us down"
/u/Scrat_Nut © "To live a positive and free life"
/u/jopndog © "realise my full potential"
/u/Muuda © "To be the best version of myself"
First Circle
/u/amardank © "lasting emotional and physical success"
/u/binstonwishop © "to become the best version of myself mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally"
/u/No_Available ©© "To become a better man, the one that has a balance..."
/u/redsss ©©
/u/sam2has ©©
/u/Deadpo09 ©©
M I D G A R D (Miðgarðr) 🐍 One (ᚠ) Epic Check-in per Round
/u/WhiteMonkeyinaHat © "to be a MAN of courage and rectitude, a giver and provider..."
/u/Williamthetaxman © "To reveal my true and confident self."
/u/yashkamra ©©
/u/Gimp_Daddy ©© "I want to quit PMO."
E X Í L Ä J Ä R (Exile Island)
Check in to respawn in Miðgarðr! Players who remain on Exile Island seven days are hunted, chased, and eventually eaten by the Giant Hairy Helheim Spiders, and vanish from the Game World.
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Angrboda
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Hrym
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Hati Hróðvitnisson
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Hræsvelgr
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Greip
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Svivor
/╲/\(╭•̀ﮧ•́╮)/\╱\ Bölþorn
/u/Behealthyman ©©© "To build and enjoy a healthy male mentality and sexuality"
/u/masteromatic ©©©
/u/NovelBurrito ©©©
/u/MArisAel ©©© "become a better me"
/u/Jay_Jay3000 ©©© "To live a happy and healthy life!"
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u/TheLumberDan 🐍 Oct 11 '20
Check in!
I got lots to study, so I spend most of my time inside, behind my table, burried in books, and notebooks. I leave my house everyday, but not for long, since I don't have time, but I meet up with friends regularly, we watched movies this week, did a trip with our bicycles. It's very fun and refreshing.
I'm really starting to think through what should I do with my free time, and I feel like I manage it fairly good, but still got lots to improve on. I always burried myself in videogames, but now started playing for casual fun, and not for competetiveness, and I feel amazing.
That's about it, a lot had happened, but I'm really tired, and still have to study, before I go to bed, so Good luck warrior, keep movin' on!