As I was looking at things from the perspective of time, I realized that this habit of mine actually slowed down greatly my development, both personal and professional. If I wanted to succeed in life, I just had to stop procrastinating to the extent that I had wasted days not achieving much. So I decided it was time for me to try to find a tactic that can help me escape this horrendous time-wasting loop. And I did — I found my inspiration in sports where usually the start of any sporting event is given by counting to three. Ready, set, go! So why not transform it to “Ready, set, do!”?

In today’s article, I’ve decided to get you acquainted with a method that proved to work wonders for me. I cannot think of a reason it would fail you — quite on the contrary, I definitely believe you would benefit from it as much as I did.

Do you know that we can train our brains to count to three and when the third number hits our lips, to simply stand up and start doing whatever it is that we’ve kept on postponing?

Let me tell you about the counting to three method that managed to be a lifesaver when it came to my personal growth and my business establishment.

When we count to three, we prepare our brain for some action We’re used to thinking about the number three as a lucky number: we often dream of three wishes, don’t we?

Three is The Magic Number | WNO Throughout human history, the number 3 has always had a unique significance, but why? The ancient Greek philosopher… wno.org.uk

But if we have to take on a more of a psychological approach, we can loosely describe the number three’s connotation like this:

at one we start being aware of a certain concept at two we prepare ourselves for a certain action at three we express eagerness and readiness to do the actual action By using this approach in certain situations, we actually can increase our chances to excel at a certain task. By counting to three, it’s like we forbid our mind to continue postponing whatever it is we need to do or say. When you come to think about it, that could be one of the best time productivity hacks one could implement in their day-to-day.

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In some cases, procrastination, postponing, or deliberate delay can be symptoms of much-needed rest. In those situations, it’s best to just stand still and listen to our body and mind.

But in some other instances, those behaviors can be a sign of fear, an emotional blockage of some sort, uncertainty, or overthinking. The irony is that we are our greatest gurus when we are on the positive side of life as well as our biggest enemies when we are feeling the blues. In those moments when we have to deal with internalized fear or boundary, we have to go the extra mile in order to exit the vicious loop of doing nothing or postponing major life decisions and actions.

But counting to three may sometimes benefit us greatly as this approach creates a certain level of urgency. It’s even like betraying our own prepared mind if we don’t act upon it. So the next time you experience uncertainty and you’re aware that procrastination simply serves as a defense mechanism, try implementing this hack and see how it goes.

Ready, set, do! When can we implement this strategy whatsoever?

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash First comes first — we can use the counting to three method when we deal with procrastination and laziness. Perhaps you’ve already mapped out the variety of advantages a certain action may bring to you. So it’s definitely worth doing it! So instead of constantly entering overthinking mode and thinking of hundreds of reasons why you should postpone it once more, count to three and just start doing something that will get you closer to the end goals. You’d be surprised to know that action is contagious — it will shortly lead to yet another action, etc.

For example, back in the day, I was dreading establishing my own business because I constantly entered the loop of fearing failure. So I did what I did best back then and just postponed it — until the moment I realized I might be perhaps wasting my potential. So I just counted to three, took a deep breath, and decided to establish my WordPress agency. It went quite successfully from then on.

1. We can use this method to stop the loop of negative thoughts we occasionally step into

If some of you are vivid overthinkers prone to anxiety, then they perfectly know what I’m talking about. Entering the loop of negative thinking can quickly turn into a quite dreadful experience. One negative thought quickly leads to another and before you know it you are already stressed out and way too overwhelmed to continue with your day. So the next time you feel a negative thought is emerging, you can try counting to three and immediately start thinking of or picturing something positive. This behavior will help you wire new brain paths when it comes to anxiety. Neuroplasticity is truly mesmerizing and a potential life-saver.

Rewiring the Anxious Brain - Neuroplasticity and the Anxiety Cycle | Oruen You can rewire your brain to be less anxious through a simple- but not easy process. Understanding the Anxiety Cycle… www.oruen.com

My knowledge of the brain’s neuroplasticity was enlightened by the book: You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life by Jeffrey M. Schwartz MD. I definitely think you’d find it to be a great read if you are struggling with anxiety and habitual overthinking.

1. We can also use the counting to three method when we need to excuse ourselves from unpleasant situations

I’m sure we’ve all been in a setting where we don’t feel particularly comfortable. Oftentimes we wait for the perfect moment for us to leave or remove ourselves from a certain situation, relationship, job, etc. But the truth is that we may have to wait a long time — instead, why not create the perfect moment for ourselves? Make a decision, count to three, and act on it. It will save you tons of misery and discontent.

Ever since I happened to use the counting to three method, I no longer wait for the perfect timing to engage in an action. Instead, I come clear with myself on behalf of what I want, I implement the method, and I just start doing whatever it is I have to do in order to achieve my goal. It has spared me a lot of headaches and time spent in misery.

In reality, we all just need to feel good about ourselves Oftentimes, though, we really need to do the work and take some actions in order to achieve maximum fulfillment. So, essentially, we have to beat everything that stops us and slows down our progress. I know it’s easier said than done, but hey — we all have to start somewhere!

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Here are some things to do instead of writing that will actually help you to write next time:

Pinterest dive

When you’re really tired but you want and need to work on your story, why not hit up Pinterest? It’s the best app and website for me. I adore it! It has a wealth of effortless inspiration for everything in your life, including your stories. Follow my Pinterest boards here.

Yes, scrolling on Pinterest can be a waste of valuable time. But when you go on there with intention, you are potentially helping your story. You can find images to inspire and enrich your characters, your setting, your magic, your mood, your aesthetic, names for people and places, history, clothing, everything!

Watch videos

Again, potentially a naughty one when done without awareness and intention. But watching videos about writing or worldbuilding etc can be the perfect inspiration and motivation to get started. Especially if you’re a beginner (but not limited to beginners), you can gain valuable advice that can help your work.

YouTubers who talk about writing that I follow:

• Abbie Emmons

• Hello Future Me

• Christy Anne Jones

• Merphy Napier

• Quotidian Writer

• Sincerely, Vee

• Kate Cavanaugh Writes

Reading your work

Reading over the last bit you wrote is a great way to still be engaging with your story without having to write. Sure, you can edit if you want to. But just reading it can be enough to feel good and like you haven’t abandoned your story on your days off.

Brainstorm

I love a good mindmap because it lets you be creatively free to explore lots of random ideas without them needing to make sense or connect. If there’s an area of your story that needs a little work, write it at the centre of a blank page: MAGIC SYSTEM, MAIN CHARACTER, SIDE CHARACTERS, EMOTIONAL JOURNEY, whatever. Then, go wild. Build from any random ideas that come into your head. Get out the bad ideas to leave room for the good ones to find you.

Character interviews

It’s always a good idea to work on your characters. Keep asking yourself key questions. Who are they? Even better, ask the character themselves!

Why did you do that?

Why do you want this?

What are you afraid of and why?

What do you need to learn to get what you think you want?

What is really going on here?

Even if you think you know your characters pretty well, time away from your manuscript speaking with your characters and going deeper into their minds and backstory is never wasted time — even if it doesn’t make it into the story, it still adds depth to your characters and influences their decisions and reactions.

Read

Reading is a key part of being a writer. You don’t need to read fast or a lot compared to other people, but if you’re writing books, it’s a good idea to read some, too! It helps you to know what you like in a book and what you don’t. It helps you understand genre, structure, and depth. If you’re reading something popular, ask yourself what might make this appeal to so many people.

Reading is a gentle activity and an important one for writers. Take some time away from your world and slip into another one. However, be careful not to compare your writing to published books. They have been edited A LOT and by A LOT of people. So comparison isn’t kind or fair to you.

Watch tv (but take notes)

I’m so naughty! Instead of writing, just watch the telly. I’m joking but I’m not. Television shows are written first! Crazy, I know! Someone thought about the characters, the plot, and the setting just like we do for our books. Therefore, watching tv shows can actually help us with our writing. But, you need to wear your writing cap while watching.

Ask some questions:

• Who are the main characters and what do they want?

• What is stopping them from getting it?

• Why does this location work for this story?

• Who is a villain and why?

• Why do I care about the characters?

• Why do I want to keep watching? What questions do I need to be answered?

• How is visual storytelling playing a major role here and how can I bring that into my stories?

(Just because you’re writing a book and not a TV show or film, doesn’t mean you can’t learn A LOT about writing and engaging your reader from studying visual storytelling).

Look after yourself

Lastly, you’re tired. You can’t write right now; that’s okay. Take a nap. Go for a walk. Do some yoga or pilates. Go for a jog. Cuddle up with a good book or your pet. Have a cup of tea and a chat with someone you love. Play a game. Take a bath. Journal about your feelings of late. Go sit by a river. Paint. Call a parent/carer. Do a puzzle. Cook a good meal. Scrapbook. Sing. Dance. Meditate. Get a massage. Go swimming. Scream into a pillow. Book a therapy session. Get dressed up. Rewatch Harry Potter.

Live. Love yourself. Look after yourself. And live your life.

Your writing can live without you for a day. I know that lately I’ve been talking about and showing my fast writing process. But I’m also looking after myself and taking breaks. Writing yourself to death isn’t fun, so what’s the point?

Let me know what you’re working on.

Happy writing (or not!).

Sincerely,

S. xx

I began to doubt the validity of such advices. YouTubers with millions of followers are promoting it. Why is it not working for me? Did i do it wrongly? Did i wake up at the wrong side of the bed? Was i missing the ice cubes in the shower to knock some sense into me?

I continued to try out a few advices, which didn’t make me any more productive — at least nothing worth mentioning.

Something seems off here.

Happy to say, I got out of that hell hole awhile back after realizing something. It wasn’t my problem. The advices were great. The problem is compatibility. It just didn’t fit me.

The information online may have worked for some people, but it might not work for you. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you’ll stop making excuses for your lack of self-control, discipline, and motivation.

Waking up at 5am in the morning worked for some people because they are a morning person, and generally turn in early. What if I’m a night owl? I generally sleep between 12–1am. Waking up at 5am would mean i’d only have 4–5 hours of rest. I can see the probability of me doing more with lesser sleep, if that’s what the advice is about.

I generally find myself writing better at night as i slowly work towards the end of the day. Silent nights set the mood for me and help me find the inspiration and ideas i need. In the morning, my mind is still warming up, and i generally like to workout in the day. Working out brings clarity to me, and it also helps jumpstart my day.

This is something I’m comfortable with, in fact, it leads to higher productivity because of my preference. If i were to adapt my lifestyle just because some guy on the web said it’s better to wake up at 5am, i would be torturing myself.

Forcing yourself to fit into a system that was never meant for you doesn’t sound productive at all.

You’ll be focused on following the system more than what the system can do for you. It wouldn’t be second nature to you and you’ll have to constantly remind and motivate yourself to stay on course.

Believe me, you will wear out. At the end of the day, you’ll fall back to square one and blame yourself for something that wouldn’t be your fault to begin with.

Adjust It To Fit You

Stop following everything that you see on the web. Everybody leads a different lifestyle, and we are to believe that one system can fit everybody. Instead, consume, reflect and adapt.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that the advices provided by the professionals and enthusiasts are crap. I meant that everybody has their own preference, and what they are doing might not work for you.

What you need to do instead, is to adapt it to your needs.

Some advices may suit you perfectly, but there are also some that may never work for you. And for those in between, it just needs a bit of tweaking and maybe it’ll fit you perfectly too.If you follow blindly, you fail to understand the underlying reason and concept for why this even became a system or advice.

The action of waking up at 5am doesn’t make you productive automatically. It is the ability to start the day earlier than your peers, and getting things done before the sun even comes up, that causes one to perceive, and of course mentally believe that they are more productive than usual.

Can the same be done the other way around? Can i go to bed later than my peers, and get more work done? Of course you can! It’s the same concept, but done in a different way. You might argue that doing work at night would be less productive, because your willpower and energy has been depleted throughout the day. Nocturnal owls will beg to differ. In fact, if you are willingly putting in the hours late at night, you definitely are addicted to it and want to do it.

Closing It Off

My advice to you is to understand your preference and lifestyle, and build something around it. Productivity tips are not one size fit all. That’s why there are so many variations of it. You can even create your own and preach it to your colleagues and friends!

If you’re looking to be more productive, take a moment and reflect on your current system and answer the following:

• What are you currently doing that is supposed to make you more productive?(Do you do time blocking? Do you adopt the pomodoro technique when doing deep work? Or do you simply not look at your phone when it’s working hours?)

• How do you know it’s making you more productive?

• Do you feel like you have to force yourself to do any of those mentioned above?

• Would your productivity levels remain the same without those mentioned above?

If you answer ‘no’ to any of the questions above, you may have to relook at whatever you’re working with currently. At the end of the day, you should have a system that makes you more productive, while making you feel certain, willing, and confident.

As I told you, the tips I am going to share have nothing to do with the LaTex language itself, but rather with how to setup your workspace and what software tools you can leverage to take away some pain from your first drafts. Be sure to visit the links, as they will bring you directly where you need to be! Without further ado, let’s dig into the 5 tips that will kickstart your LaTex journey.

1: use a cloud-based editor LaTex is infamous for being a real hassle to install on different machines. Today, the need for local installation is really not a thing anymore. Thanks to cloud-based editors, like OverLeaf, what divides you from your first LaTex article is really a simple signup procedure. The biggest advantage of using a cloud-based editor is that all your articles (and resources such as images and references) are neatly stored in the cloud, so you will never lose your work no matter what happens to your machine.OverLeaf also makes it super easy to collaborate with other editors to the same article, which is very convenient. Oh and no worries, the basic version of OverLeaf is completely free of charge :)

2: don’t write tables yourself Ok, you started working on your first article and you need to write a table. You search online for a guide and… yea, it’s a real mess. LaTex tables are known to be very hard to craft from scratch, which is why you definitely shouldn’t! Take a look at this awesome website: it gives you the possibility to define the required table using a graphic editor and to generate the corresponding LaTex code for you to copy-paste in your article. This simple trick saved me so much time that I am ashamed I didn’t know it was there for the first couple years with LaTex. Well, now you don’t need to go through that hell.

3: use a bibliography manager Ok, so now you want to cite someone else’s work in your own. LaTex will help you a great deal in this otherwise tedious work. Indeed, it is one of the main reasons LaTex became so popular in the first place. LaTex handles citations using an external file characterized by the .bib extension. In such a file, the user can insert a set of references to the works to be cited in a structured format of the form key: value. By default, one would have to find such entry for each of the papers, books and other resources to be cited, copy-paste it in the .bib file and enjoy the result. The problem is that finding the correct entry on the net is not always easy, and when you have hundreds of works to cite it can become really cumbersome. Luckily, softwares like Mendeley and Zotero can help you dealing with bibliographies in a much simpler way: by drag-and-drop all the files containing the resources to be cited, these bibliography managers authomatically generate the complete .bib file for you. Trust me when I say you will love it.

4: if you struggle with maths, ask an online editor Maths is hard, everybody knows that. But when you have to write each and every single formula by yourself in LaTex, it can become a real hassle. While it is definitely a good idea to learn how to write mathematical formulas in LaTex (after all, it is one of the main advantages of writing LaTex altogether), a no-code editor can really take away lots of pain during the first attempts, and at the same time it speeds up your learning! Like for tables generators, multiple options are available online. I used this one, and it really made my learning a lot simpler by giving me the right answers right away.

5: when nothing else works, consider using a no-code editor Have you tried all the previous points? Nothing seems to work? No worries, learning a markup language takes time, especially if you are not accustomed to using similar tools such as HTML. If this is the case, you can consider the possibility of moving away from a plain LaTex editor such as OverLeaf in favor of a low-code solution. In my early LaTex days, Lyx did great job for me in this sense. With Lyx you have access to an intuitive GUI (Graphic User Interface), similar to what you are accustomed to in Microsoft Word, while being able to access and manipulate the underlying LaTex code at the same time. This solution comes with pros and cons: in particular, it doesn’t offer a cloud-based storage so you will have to do some installations and to make sure that your work doesn’t get lost by mistake.

These were the 5 tips that will kickstart your LaTex journey. I hope this article’s content will help you in you quest to become a real LaTex expert and, if you find other tricks along the way, please share them with the community as well! Peace!

You’re lying on the couch one day, wondering what to do. You try to stop yourself, but you instantly go on your phone. Before you know it, you’re 2 hours over your 1 hour limit today. You wonder to yourself:

‘’Why do I keep doing this?!’’ It’s simple; you’re unable to moderate your habits in a healthy manner just yet.

‘’But why can’t I?’’ Here’s why.

1. You’re not spending enough time away from the activity you wish to moderate. You’re always looking for something to do, whether you think it or not. When your brain thinks there is nothing to do, it believes it’s free time and suddenly starts to fill the void with whatever it possibly can;

..which most of the time isn’t very good.

The simple solution? Fill your day with activities. You already know which ones I’m talking about. Really, you do.

1. You need to be more conscious about your decisionmaking. Excuses such as:

‘’Just one more!’’

‘’It’s been a while, I can surely enjoy it today!’’

‘’One won’t hurt.’’

‘’Come on! It’s just an hour!’’

are not excuses.

Your brain just wants that juicy sense of comfort and short term pleasure.

You need to make the decision to restrict yourself alot harder than you usually do. The longer you stay away from a bad habit, the more you will crave it until you eventually snap back to it.

You must make the decision to change your lifestyle for the time being.

When you know and truly believe you are at a healthy level (around 90 days after an unhealthy habit), that is when you can come back to it. Not 3–4 days after.

Don’t just quit a single habit for a week and instantly rubberband back after, you’ll simply just in the end lose all your progress. Instead, wait a good while before deciding you can truly come back to said activity without it damaging your overall health.

Don’t say you’ll scroll on social media for 2 hours today or just play video games for an hour. You won’t.

1. Your mental health Mental health is far more important than you think. Seriously.

Having poor mental health from working or sitting in a classroom takes a toll on your overall mental health and can prevent you from reaching your full potential.

Without mental health, your brain will try and muffle the bad feelings with short-term pleasures to satisfy you.

Think about it; why do people with poor mental health always resort to substance abuse, alcohol, or whatever other dopamine bombs they desire?

They want to take their minds away from reality for a short moment.

If you have poor mental health, you seriously need to consider that before changing literally anything.

You won’t be able to do anything if you have a crappy mindset or poor motivation or terrible focus.

Improving your mental health is a bit of a tough subject, but here’s the best advice I can give you:

Change your overall lifestyle. This means diet, schedule, daily activities, decisions, and overall just what you do in life.

Work towards what you know works best for you. If you don’t trust someone else’s advice, don’t. Trust your gut.

And those are the three reasons why you’re unable to healthily indulge in an activity. Mental health, decisions, and inability to fill the void with new activities all tie in to give you the bad habits you knowingly indulge in today.

Anyway, get off this article. You’re done reading and know what to do. No, no STOP. What are you doing, don’t click on that artic-

Argh.. they’re already gone.

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• why you need to do it

• what the outcomes are

• who can support or guide you

• when and where to get started

• how to mitigate risks involved

“To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.” — Stephen R. Covey

There are two hearts beating in my chest when thinking about the principle of “starting with the end in mind”.

The one agrees with it from the perspective of effectiveness — if you know where you are going, you can make convinced steps in the right direction.

The other one disagrees with it from the perspective of atelic activities — sometimes you just need to trust the process, do the work, and see where it takes you.

I believe there is space in our lives for both perspectives. On the macro, doing what feels like and letting your actions guide you to a destination is perhaps the best recipe for finding your purpose in life. On the micro, starting with the end in mind allows you to use your time most effectively.

If you are facing a problem or challenge in your life, you perhaps know where you fall on that spectrum. Perhaps you don’t. To me, it doesn’t matter too much. As long as you start doing and build momentum. You can always course-correct later. But if you’re not moving in the first place, there’s no course you can correct.

The founders of the five largest companies in the world — Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos — all share two uncommon traits. After studying self-made billionaires for many years now, I believe that these two traits are responsible for a lot of their wealth, success, impact, and fame. In fact, I put so much faith in these two traits that I’ve used them in my own life to start companies, be a better writer, be a better husband, and achieve financial security.

Here are the two traits:

1. Each of them is a voracious learner.

2. Each of them is a polymath.

Let’s unpack these two terms, and learn a few simple tips for using them in your own life.

First, the definitions. I define a voracious learner as someone who follows the 5-hour rule — dedicating at least five hours per week to deliberate learning. I define a polymath as someone who becomes competent in at least three diverse domains and integrates them into a skill set that puts them in the top 1% of their field. If you model these two traits and you take them seriously, I believe they can have a huge impact on your life and really accelerate your success toward your goals. When you become a voracious learner, you compound the value of everything you’ve learned in the past. When you become a polymath, you develop the ability to combine skills, and you develop a unique skill set, which helps you develop a competitive advantage.

By Bill Gates’ own estimate, he’s read one book a week for 52 years, many of them having nothing to do with software or business. He also has taken an annual two-week reading vacation for his entire career. In a fascinating 1994 Playboy interview, we see that he already thought of himself as a polymath:

PLAYBOY: Do you dislike being called a businessman?

GATES: Yeah. Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

PLAYBOY: What, then?

GATES: Scientist. Unless I’ve been fooling myself. When I read about great scientists like, say, Crick and Watson and how they discovered DNA, I get a lot of pleasure. Stories of business success don’t interest me in the same way.

The fact that Gates considers himself a scientist is fascinating given that he dropped out of college and had spent his whole life in the software industry at that point.

Interestingly, Elon Musk doesn’t consider himself a businessman either. In this recent CBS interview, Musk says he thinks of himself as more of a designer, engineer, technologist, and even wizard.

About “wants”, “cans”, “needs”, and “shoulds”

The original reddit post has now hundreds of examples of terrible volume UI, and it keeps growing — a fun exercise/joke, that can strengthen one’s creative muscles and ability to think outside of the box. People have been participating simply for the fun of coming up with the most absurd and weird interactions and interface elements.

But there’s definitely a reflection point about the state our industry here.

I’m sure a lot of people reading this has, at some point in their careers, felt that urge of innovating no matter what. An uncontrollable desire of redesigning something that hasn’t been redesigned for too long. It has to be recreated. And it has to be innovative. Right?

That’s where the wants, cans, needs, and shoulds story comes in.

• Everybody wants to innovate. The design industry keeps nudging us to be creative, innovative, and to deliver design solutions that have never been thought of before. Pressure is on us. We are bombarded with messages telling us that, in order to be considered a solid designer, we have to innovate at any cost.

• A lot of people can innovate. I definitely can redesign the volume control UI. All it takes is a bit of creativity and moderate design skills. Prototyping tools are becoming increasingly accessible, as well as other technologies that allow to bring to fruition whatever idea comes to mind. A few hours in front of Principle or Framer lets you create an extremely refined prototype of the interaction you are envisioning. You can also decide to create an app/site/chatbot to solve that same issue. You can.

• No one needs to. Let’s be honest: the volume control design pattern has been around for decades, works pretty well for the majority of users, and is incredibly familiar to a lot of people. You don’t need to reinvent it.

But then there’s the should.

Should I redesign the volume control UI?

Should is interesting because of its subjectiveness. It’s a question that only makes sense to be asked in first person. And you have to know about much more than just design to be able to answer it — you have to understand about business, technology, culture, people. Answering the should question is a skill you only get after many, many years answering questions alike.

We can try to quantify or measure the should, which makes sense some of the time. But part of it is, and will ever be, intuition. How is yours?

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Set on the world of Ventuna, home to many races and lands, where dark forces under the leadership of the Dark Lord Oblivion and his minions have spread their malign “fog” to allow them to conduct a reign of terror. Set against them, a brave band of heroes created Last Hope City as a hidden refuge against the Dark Lord’s reach and influence. This is where you start your quest to free Ventuna from his influence; the game is next level Fantasy RPG!

Guilds — a Place to Call Home!

Players own a Guild and gather heroes, compete against others and complete missions to become the ultimate guild in Last Hope. They can also send their heroes beyond the city walls to defeat enemies found roaming the map, uncover treasure, buy land and discover the secrets of the dungeons.

Players all start off at their Guild House which accommodates all their heroes and resources. They can also buy more land in Last Hope City to build new facilities and upgrade their Guild House. Like other valuable items in the game, Guilds are NFTs that can be sold or traded with other players.

Heroes — Without Them No Progress can be Made!

Players own a Guild and gather heroes, compete against others and complete missions to become the ultimate guild in Last Hope. They can also send their heroes beyond the city walls to defeat enemies found roaming the map, uncover treasure, buy land and discover the secrets of the dungeons.

Players all start off at their Guild House which accommodates all their heroes and resources. They can also buy more land in Last Hope City to build new facilities and upgrade their Guild House. Like other valuable items in the game, Guilds are NFTs that can be sold or traded with other players.

Heroes Need Weapons and Armour to Look Cool!

Your hero needs some weapons and armour to increase their power and progress in the game. The solution is to craft, buy or rent what you need. It requires resources ranging from common materials to make a basic set of weapons, to the rare commodities for the really powerful items. As a bonus, rare items will make your heroes look cool and stand out from everyone else. The game is a must for any Fantasy RPG fans out there!Magic — Everyone needs a Little Bit of This in their Lives!

No magical world would be complete without the ability to cast spells, and Heroes Chained is no different. Guild spells can be used in real-time during battles to gain a quick advantage. Attack your enemies with a fire spell or throw up a magical shield! Visit the Guild shop or make a trip to the City Magic School to start building up your spell book. Don’t forget to upgrade your Guild to unlock new spells! Speaking of upgrading your Guild let’s look at the land.

Venture Forth into Ventuna and Discover the Treasure!

The world of Ventuna is huge with many areas for heroes to explore. A number of ancient nodes lie underneath the land with valuable resources contained within them for the lucky hero. These could be $HeC tokens, crafting materials, and resources for many types of upgrades. As with other valuable resources in the game, they can be bought and sold as well as upgraded to increase output. This is Fantasy RPG beyond!

Let us turn our attention to what is at the heart of the gameplay and review what we can expect. As mentioned, the game is set in the fantasy world of Ventuna, home to many races and lands, but ravaged by the Dark Lord Oblivion. In the final refuge, Last Hope City, we use our heroes, Guild Houses, spells, and crafting skills in various ways to play and earn.

One way to succeed is in the Player versus Environment (PvE) mode, where you can send your heroes beyond the walls of the city, defeat enemies, develop lands, uncover dungeons, and complete dangerous missions to defeat Lord Oblivion.

Another way, in parallel with PvE, is to enter the Arena in the city to battle against other Guilds or Teams in Tournaments and Leagues. This Player versus Player (PvP) route can build your fighting skills for later use on missions outside the city. Regardless of how you approach the game, you can expect to be challenged to build your heroes and fight them in mighty battles.

As you complete missions and battles you will accumulate NFT items as well as Heroes Chained (HeC) tokens. These can be traded on the marketplaces either using a blockchain wallet or if you don’t have one, the HeC wallet. This wallet allows you to hold your HeC tokens, land, materials, etc. without needing to spend time understanding how blockchains work. You can easily create one and use it quickly to start doing what you want to do — play Heroes Chained — and move to the blockchain if you wish to in the future. It will be transparent to you and not interfere with gameplay.

The final area to look at is what devices Heroes Chained will be available to play on. The short answer is that virtually all modern devices should be able to play Heroes Chained. It will be available on the Apple AppStore, Google Play as well as the Windows Store. This Blockchain, Fantasy RPG is everything a swords and sorcery enthusiast could ever want; plus, it is the game where you can earn as you play!

We hope that you have seen some of the ways that Heroes Chained designer Mev Dinc and his team have made to ensure exciting and enthralling gameplay!