I used to be painfully obsessed with completing every challenge and having every badge and accumulating a bjillion tokens. True confession, here: I used to have a spreadsheet of all the games and would keep track of my rank. I kept my laptop by my bed so that if I woke up in the night I could check ranking out progress and restart a game if the auto had stopped running. I had high anxiety about leaving the house with an auto running - what if it stopped??? How much time would be wasted if it did stop and I wasn't there to restart it???? Thankfully those days are over. Not sure what happened, but now Pogo is no longer an obsession. It's a hobby. Something to do when I just want to relax and enjoy myself.
I tried to complete that first level MANY times and failed. It stopped being fun, so I stopped playing. And I'm good with not getting that badge. Feeding my family or paying the bills do not depend on whether or not I complete pogo challenges... so when they're no longer fun, I'll step back.