For my exhibition I explored time management through bullet journaling. During this experience, something I found challenging was changing the way I work. I was just so used to spending an excessive amount of time to make my work PERFECT, because of this I also had trouble organising my journal. I also found constantly having to check my bullet journal and crossing tasks off hard to remember. I have learnt that finishing now is better than finishing later or never.

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.”

-General George S. Patton

My artistic piece was inspired by the different stages I went through in the exhibition. In each stage I add or take away an element, it shows my thinking on how I could improve my time management skills.

Each quadrant represents something different. I have different mindsets when I work, most of the time it’s a perfectionist mindset, sometimes it’s a ‘get it over and done with’ mindset and sometimes it’s a balanced one. My goal was to be a balanced learner who has a guide (bullet journal) to make her more productive to help her finish on time.

I feel like I was successful with my exhibition and I have improved in time management skills. This exhibition will really help me in the future.

The reason I chose interior design is because it helps me work on my thinker, resilient and reflective atl.

Resilience is hard for me because if I find something hard I usually give up. Interior design involves a lot of technology, I also find technology hard, its all those buttons. It makes me jittery and nervous. When I started off I wanted to quit, because I didn’t know how to get furniture. I didn’t know how to change the size, and many other things. It overwhelmed me. Second of all, thinking is a skill which connects with resilience. With technology, I had to be a thinker to figure out how the tools worked. Lastly, I had to be reflective as an interior designer. Reflecting was hard for my first few weeks until Ms Joe the expert came to give me feedback, I was surprised about so many things I could’ve improved on, that I took notes to work on for my next piece, and that PAID OFF.

My piece is an image of a room I have designed. It is for me when I move back to Australia. I had to think of where I was going to live in the future and what I needed for my future. I really think the colour pallet speaks to me as it helps me to feel comfortable and open. The room represents what I would like to be in the future where it is relaxed, calm and comfortable.

Overall, exhibition has helped me to learn something which I have always wanted to learn. It is definitely something I would like to continue in the future and this was definitely a terrific way to start.

For my exhibition I chose to learn how to play piano because I didn’t like always to play instruments, I prefer sports. I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could become good at it as exhibition is all about challenging yourself. Something that I found hard in the first two weeks was organizing my journal but then I got use it. I learned from my exhibition to be very organized and to never give up in the hard things like organizing your journal.

For my artistic piece I chose to take a picture of me playing piano and draw an auditorium behind of me and in the sky there are a lot of notes that represent the people that helped me through my exhibition. The blue note represent all my friends, they helped me so much with my exhibition, when I was stuck I could always go to them and they would help me. The green note represent my family my family helped me by talking about my journal and how was the exhibition going. The yellow note represents all the teachers that helped me and support me to do better and better.

I took a photo of myself playing the piano because that’s what I did for all the exhibition and also I drew the notes because that notes represent the people that helped me in my exhibition. In the Future I will always challenge myself even in the things that I’m not good at and never give up.

For my PYP exhibition I researched about brain breaks and designed my own. I chose to create brain breaks because I wanted to explore more about how the brain works and how the brain can become more focused through activities such as mindfulness and colouring. Before the exhibition process started I expected it to be a lighthearted activity. Fun, easy, and almost effortless. Oh, how wrong I was. During my exhibition, I battled dozens of obstacles, losing - and winning matches. The obstacles included ideas for the brain breaks and organising my learning journal. Skills I wanted to improve on during the exhibition were self-motivation and time management. Not surprisingly, during my exhibition, I was challenged by being distracted and off-task. Luckily, I was able to continue with my work.

Coming towards the end of this exhibition, I feel much more confident in focusing on my work and getting it done effectively. I tried incorporating my growth into my symbolic piece by zooming into my face, resembling focus. My symbolic piece connects with me because of the colour. Starting from the base of the lens, purple clouds guard it, a colour that to me, is being distracted. Gradually, I become better and grow my skills.

In the future, the brain breaks that I have learned about will be very useful to me. I have tested them and they have helped me concentrate, and it will be too in another 10 years. But although I have improved on my skills, I hope that in the future, I can progress even further with my concentration.