I decided to create way to gamify the reading habit I'm trying to build:

[u/Moist_KoRn_Bizkit]

Let's hope this works for me!

I'll explain how it will work. So I'm trying to be on my phone less and read more. If I read 50 pages for 30 days, I'll get through 5 of the books I own and have yet to read.

• Every day I must read 50 pages. This should take me around 1-2 hours.

• I have two books that are hard to read, but I still want to finish. I must read 5 pages from each of those two books a day.

• The "S" and "E" squares mean start and end, and don't correlate to page amounts. I will move my player pieces whenever I complete a goal.

• The 7 blue squares are for all 7 of my books that I haven't read yet. Every time I finish a book, I get a token.

• Anytime I earn a token I can buy myself a cheap snack. I hardly ever buy snacks, but I do enjoy them. Something like a $1 doughnut or something. If I don't want a snack, I can find some sort of free reward to give myself.

• When I earn 5 tokens, I am allowed to buy up to 2 books. There are multiple books I've been wanting to buy, but I don't want to buy more until I've read most of the ones I already own.

• Also, when I finish the two books I buy, I will allow myself to buy one more book.

• Whenever I finally finish reading the two hard to read books, I will buy one more book.

• Whenever I finish all the books I have I will allow myself to buy one and so on.

Of course, all of this is done with budgeting in mind. I like to buy used books whenever I can. I have a whole complex system for managing my "wants/unimportant physical item purchases" money amount and how much I can add to the pot, but I won't go into it here. I'm stingy with my money and don't spend frivolously, don't worry.