Atomic Habits: Clear as Mud🧑‍🦯

“You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.” – James Clear

This project was for my first PGP (personal growth plan) class. For the project we read the book Atomic Habits by James clear. Atomic Habits by James Clear is about how small habits make a big difference over time. Tiny actions, when done consistently, add up and can completely change your life. Normally self-help books like this don’t do it for me, but since James Clear starts his book by going over his personal experience with a life changing injury when he was in high-school, I felt more inclined to listen to what he had to say because he had brought himself back from his injury and proved that his “systems” worked. 

While reading the book, I noticed that James Clear really encouraged the idea of small changes. He didn’t want people to be making drastic and massive changes in their lives in order to see progress, but instead preached the idea of making small changes to your routine and slowly building small habits to create systems. I think that idea is much more palatable and makes you more inclined to try something that isn’t super intimidating. I liked that idea a lot because it actually made sense to me and I felt like it was easier to put into action in my own life. James clear has 4 main tricks to keep in mind when trying to build a habit system: Make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, and make it satisfying. By incorporating these things, I found it much easier to lock in and stay committed to my new habits. 

🏎️“How can improving by just 1% each day help me take responsibility for my learning, strengthen my habits, and create balance and purpose in my future career and life?”🏎️

Atomic Habits 1% video 

Our final product for the project was to create a short video of us incorporating our new habits and systems for a week. I chose to grow my time management skills and get into the habit of not leaving homework to the last minute. To create my video, every time I did homework, I would film what I did to limit distractions, make my workplace optimal, and how I kept focus for the whole time. Then I edited it into a short 2 minute video and explained how James Clears methods helped me build up a new habit system. 

Personal growth: VMV

In for my personal growth goal, I chose to work on the agency and self regulation aspect of my VMV. I started to realize that the reason I was constantly feeling stressed was because of the fact that my motivation to do work and to use my allocated time was very low. I decided that I needed to change my time management skills for the better.

Thank you for reading my post, and seeing my progress with time management throughout this project.