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Think It’s Just a Game? How Farmville Can Help You Succeed In Real Life
By Jamie Leng | May 9, 2010
It may be difficult to justify spending hour after hour in front of a computer playing a game. But with FarmVille you can justify it. FarmVille is different from other games. It’s a game that let’s you feel good about playing. That’s because playing FarmVille can help you to succeed in real life.
Okay, I can hear the skeptics already. But hear me out before you dismiss the idea entirely. In life, there are certain skills that you need in order to be successful. With FarmVille you are actually learning to use some of those skills in a more effective way. Here are two of these real life skills.
Time Management
One of the most important life skills is time management. There is no getting around the fact that you have to be on time, whether it’s going to work, to school, or even to a game. If you keep arriving at your job late, you may not have that job too long.
Another part of time management is using your time to the best advantage. Things work out better if you learn to plan your time effectively, leaving time for both work and fun.
When you play FarmVille you get lots of great practice managing time. For example, you need to plant crops that mature when you have time to harvest them. If you miss the harvest, your crops die. When that happens, you lose out on both time and money.
When this happens I bet you learn quickly how to manage your time a lot better before deciding what you want to plant the next time. By practicing this with FarmVille a few times, you will automatically begin to manage time better in real life because you’ve practiced how to do it.
It might be as simple as planning your day so you are available to harvest your crops when they are ready. The simple act of thinking about how to arrange your day so you don’t lose out on your harvest is really an exercise in applying good time management skills.
Organization
Yet another important real life skill is organization. A lot of time is wasted when you are disorganized. It can even be a simple thing like putting stuff away when you’re finished with them.
It’s difficult to keep track of your things when you don’t remember where you put them. As you probably know from first hand experience, you can waste lots of time trying to find those things. After all, you know they’re around here somewhere.
With FarmVille you really need to be organized if you want to be a successful player. To level up quickly, you have to keep track of a lot of different things in FarmVille.
For instance, you have to decide how many plots of land you are going to clear for planting. But at the same time you need to be sure that you have enough coin to buy enough seed to plant on these plots. Then you have to organize your schedule to be sure you are able to harvest your crops on time.
If you are not organized, your game can turn into a disaster pretty quickly and instead of moving up, you’ll find yourself falling behind. You don’t want that to happen, do you? The way to avoid those types of problems is to get organized. As you learn to be better organized you will find success at FarmVille becomes easier.
There you are skeptics. Do you see how you can play as much as you want to and feel good about the time you’re spending? Because in the end, FarmVille can really help you succeed in real life.
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