Water Reflection: An Example Of A Personal Change Project

For my Personal Change Project I decided to partake in Water Conservation, specifically reducing the amount of time I spend taking a shower everyday. As my proposal stated I spend a lot of time in the shower, especially on the weekends because I usually listen to music in the shower. Listening to music in the shower is entertaining and it’s the only place that I can freely sing without my mom having to yell at me saying that I’m a horrible singer. Anyways, the main point is that listening to music in the shower, especially a genre that I’m really passionate about can leave me in the shower for a maximum of thirty minutes. My Personal Change Project was aimed to reduce the amount of time that I spend in the shower by reducing the amount of music that I listen to while I’m in there. At first …show more content…
Usually on Sundays, I spend approximately forty minutes in the shower because this is the day I wash my hair and just have some me time before I have to have a crazy week at school. On Sunday’s I would listen to about six to seven songs, or usually a song mix, which lasts forty minutes. Since I was trying to conserve water, I had too reduce my shower this day by setting a timer on my phone to twenty minutes and I set a timer on my music as well so that it would shut off at the same time my timer would go off. Surprisingly, this was effective because since I knew that I had to reduce my time in the shower, I speed up the process by washing my hair quicker and doing the other things that I had to do. To make sure that I kept up this process, I made sure that I reduced my shower by five minutes each day so that I’ll be conserving not just only water, but I’ll be saving energy and water that is used for food production which is pretty amazing now that I look back on the progress that I’ve made. Before the Personal Change Project started I spent a total of 110 minutes of just