Unfortunately, I know that I will have adjustments to make and this is only one of three chapters for my overall proposal. It's only after my proposal is completed that I can begin work on the actual research study that I plan to do. In short, there is a lot of work ahead of me still. Frankly, rather than feeling less stressed with this step done, my anxiety has actually been rising.
I need to remember that this was still a big accomplishment. I read over a hundred scholarly journals dedicated to gamification or some aspect of it. I scanned through at least a hundred more, and I perused the abstracts of hundreds still above that. I picked the ones that were most relevant and tried to arrange their information in a way that describes my reasoning for creating the study that I plan to run.
I should probably do something to celebrate, but I don't get to open the next Dinobot until the entire proposal meets URR (University Research Reviewer) approval.