20 Time Individual Reflection

For my 20 Time Project, I challenged myself to accomplish three goals, which are the following:
- Conserve our natural resources 
- Preserve the environment for future generations by creating an artwork out of recyclable materials 
- Spread the benefits and procedures of recycling and inspire others to start recycling

These are goals are centered towards self-improvement but more towards to helping others save the environment.

Of the three goals I set for myself, I accomplished one of the three goals, which was to inspire others to start recycling. My main resource to inspiring others to recycle was through using social media, such as my blog that I post on once every two weeks and a website that I created for spreading awareness about recycling. Although I did create two resources to spread the benefits of recycling, I did not publish much information relating to the benefits of recycling. Sure, I posted every two weeks what I did during that time period; however, I feel that I could have accomplished more during the time set for us every Monday morning. Eight or nine weeks into the project, for example, I stated in my third or fourth blog that I would post an interesting fact about recycling in order to bring awareness to this project. I, however, did not do such a thing because I felt like in the last few weeks of the project that I was cramming. Yes, cramming. Cramming the last few weeks to start a recyclable project that I should have started months ago. As it turns out, the project was crafted badly-- my recyclable figure could hardly stand out and was made out of flimsy, recyclable material.

Had I been given a second chance, I would have totally do the whole recyclable project differently. I would start the website and the recyclable sculpture back in February, which would have given me enough time to accomplish all my goals for the project. Despite all the failures in my project, I surprisingly learned or at least re-learned some information about myself. I re-learned that I am a great procrastinator (not in a good way) and that I have terrible time management skills. What I learned was that creating aesthetically-pleasing sculptures are hard to create. My aesthetic-pleasing sculpture looks very ragged and could be improved very much. 

For the future, I would be interested in spreading awareness on recycling to save our environment. Though, I do not plan on continuing my recyclable project in any time in the future, due to the fact I found the constructing part troublesome. I faced troubles in gathering materials to create thickness for the sculpture and time management. A new challenge, or a reiteration of part of my challenge, for me would just spreading awareness about recycling. I would relay the message to others by setting up recycling bins available to them conveniently and spread more awareness through social media.