After reading atomic habits, making our systems and coming up with our goal, we put that to the test for 1 week.
So for the past few months last year, we worked on a big PGP project, the project centres around a book called atomic habits. Atomic habits is a self help book written by James clear, atomic habits talks about how compounding habits (atomic habits) lead to big results later on. The book helps in breaking a bad habit and forming lasting good habits.
Personal goals within the project
Some of my intentions for this project was to improve my self directed learning by planning out my stuff. The main goal I wanted to focus on for this project was being on my phone less and one of the reasons I chose this was because I think my phone was affecting my sleep quality and I knew being on my phone too much had negative consequences. Some skills that I had to use to achieve less screen time was self discipline and consistency. I had to be self disciplined by making sure I stick to my systems and stay in line with my screen time limits. I also used consistency to keep my screen time at a consistent moderate level. Some reasons that theses goals and systems may be important now is because I want to get better at snowboarding because I’m on the ski and snowboard team, so me being on my phone less gives me more time to practice snowboarding. Now one way this may be important for later in life is so I can study more in uni so I can do good in my classes and me doing in my classes will help me get the job I want. Now after doing my habit and systems for a week, some things I’ve noticed was I felt better waking up in the morning because your phone can affect your sleep and I also saw myself finding other things to do other than being on my phone, like I went outside more and did others things and I also became more aware of my phone usage.
Some my learning
Now, the driving question for this project is “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?” So now firstly, one of the most powerful ideas that I learned from atomic habits when I read it was where James clear mentions that starting small and compounding it overtime leads to big results. Now relating this idea to how it changed my motivation, consistency and mindset is when I start very small, it makes it seem easier and with the help of other systems and tools and it also helps with motivation because it’s so small and that makes it so easy. Now onto the hard part, one of the hardest challenges in this project is when I was doing the habit for 1 week. Resisting the temptation of going on my phone was one of the hardest challenges I did in this project. The way I adapted when things didn’t go perfectly is I kept resisting and I decided to find other things to do than being on my phone, now sometimes I caved in to my temptation, but I quickly got out of it and one thing I learned from atomic habits that I did that helped me was my systems. One of my systems was where I put a screen time limit on all my devices, including my iPad and when I became aware of my screen time and realize the limited screen time I had left, that helped me keep myself on track. For the final product of the project, we had to make a habit video which was about how the 1 week of doing my habit was. Now one thing I realized was how it made be better understand my habit and daily routines, this was because I became aware of my habits more and I thought about them more in that week. Now to wrap this up, this is my learning story throughout this project.
Conclusion
Now its then end of this project and its time to reflect more. Now, was this project valuable to me. I would say it was not so much because I think the goal I chose was too hard, so it became kinda frustrating and atomic habits had good advice, but I didn’t feel like I didn’t get much out of it because self help books and these kinds of project don’t feel as valuable to me because of that. But, I did develop some strengths like I became more aware of myself and knowing what I need for myself, and I understood what James clearly was talking about. But, a 1% improvement is valuable create balance in my future career life by maybe balancing personal heath and work so you can be more happy at and outside of the workplace. So in conclusion, this is my reflection and a wrap up to this project