Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog post! WOW, I can’t believe that it’s been 3 months since my wonderful field study to Alberta! For this post, I’ll be answering a driving quest that we got asked. Here it is! How did you persist and manage your impulsivity on this field study in order to question, think, and gather data to complete your project and enjoy yourself? Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s get straight into it!

First off, all of you should learn a little bit about myself and my working habits. Well, let me just start off by saying, we all have pros and cons in our working habits. It’s perfectly normal, we all do! The only way that you can get rid of the cons is by working hard and asking for help. Of course, we will never be perfect. However, if you fight through all your cons you can improve them! Ok, let’s start! I’m the type of person that is very creative, when I get into my task I do my best and always try to stay on task and I always have plenty of questions. However, when I’m not interested or I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do I don’t always stay on task and try my hardest. I also LOVE procrastinating, it’s been something that I’ve struggled with my whole life. That never helps me hand my homework in on time and if I do, it’s not always great :\ We were also talking about how I always have a long list of questions in mind. That’s not a bad thing! However, I don’t usually share them. I’m very shy and afraid to mess up. We all are at times and that’s normal. Ok, now you all know enough about me, let’s get right into the driving question!

Let’s start off with my Royal Tyrell video as an example!

We only had half an hour to make an informative video on a structure in the Royal Tyrell Museum. Finding the structure was quite difficult. There were many structures around and I had trouble picking one. The structure I picked didn’t have enough information to share and was kind of boring. At first, this was very overwhelming, but once I got started I felt a little more confident and ready to start my video. I had to make sure I didn’t procrastinate! To do that I put my mind towards this project and tried to stay focused.

Another video we had to make was our Ghost Town video. We were put into groups of four and had an hour to make a story about the prison. We had an hour to explore, but since there was so much to explore I felt that wasn’t enough time. We kept finding new things that were interesting; it was hard not to get distracted. Because we kept getting sidetracked our final product wasn’t as good as it could have been, as we didn’t get all the shots we needed. I found myself starting to procrastinate by taking pictures that didn’t have any use for the video. The way that I stopped that was by checking the time and realizing we only had 15 minutes left – so I decided to stop and focus on work again.

In the end, I learned that I can focus when I put my mind to the task. I need to keep reminding myself that. This was an experience that helped me learn a lot about myself.