Hey blog veiwers! Welcome back to another reflection, this time on my first PGP project ever. Our atomic habits and artifact project consisted of reading the book Atomic Habits by James Clear and then making a realating project to that book. This project focuses on daily habits, how one can change their life a little bit to impact their future dramatically.
In this reflection blog post I will touch on the benefits and struggles of choosing an artifact that is unique and not something I would normally consider to work on. I’ll also touch on the driving question, competencies, and my take aways from the project.
First off I would like to talk about how much work this artifact took. Our task was to make a artifact relating to Atomic Habits, I chose to make a video documenting one week of my life and how I implement atomic habits rules into my everyday life. I had to change my life a little to become more productive and remember to film everything. On top of changing and filming my everyday life, making the video was a ton of work. Not including time lapses and long videos, I still had an hour of footage, which I had to cut down to 4mins. In the video I used multiple edited features, and added a mix of voiceover and video audio.
https://youtu.be/1Ijmghr8Wf4?si=vceICyvt5IpoErcp
The driving question for this project was, how can small changes in my habits shape my success this year, and beyond? Well of course habits literally shape your life. You are what your actions are, and if you want to change that you need to change your habits. So when you make a small change in a habit, you are just making a change to your identity. You can change your identity to shape success this year and beyond. I’m going to shape my success this year following my intentions statement, my vision, mission, and values, and my own goals for myself. Although I agree with much of the book, It often said to focus on a habit instead of a goal. For me, I obsess over my goals so much the habits just follow as a way to reach that goal. One habit I’m gonna change dramatically this year is the quality of my school work. Right now I’m exercising the habit of making good school work and my productivity and procrastination has gotten way better this year.
We had the task to present our artifacts at my first PrePOL in PLP ever. I really put everything I had into my artifact, so I was very happy when my parents liked it. I made a document for my PrePOL presentation with paragraphs on my goals for the year, my VMV, and how my artifact connects to atomic habits. My PrePOL went amazingly well, I never ran out of things to say while still being on topic, and I got to present work that I am actually proud of.
PRE POL.pdf
The core competency for this project was responsible Learning. Basically how I am responsible to take action with my work and to help others around me. I definitely took action for my work, starting the artifact the day my pitch was approved. And I did my best to help others around me, as since this was a very broad project some people needed help brainstorming. The other competency for this project was questioning. While reading the book I had to question many of the teaching and come up with my own conclusions from them. I also asked lots of questions in my artifact.