Skills - Time Management Annual Planning for PhD Students: A Feel-Good Bottom-Up Approach Overwhelmed by annual goals? Try this approach instead that builds upon what you enjoy at the day to day level.
Skills - Time Management My 2024 Journey: What Worked, What Didn't, and What's Next A look back at 2024, what worked and what didn't, and a look forwards to 2025.
PhD - Day-to-Day Predictable Imbalance; The Hard-Wired Nature of Efficiency Let’s reframe the Pareto Principle towards predictable imbalance and limiting factors we can practically apply within our research.
Newsletter Predictable Imbalance; the Nature of the Pareto Principle and How it Can Help Our Research: 🧠 Brain STREAM 2️⃣5️⃣ Is it in our nature to conform to the Pareto Principle? Nature says yes, so how can we reframe its principles to help with our research work?
Skills - Wellbeing What’s in a Prompt? A 5 Minute Journaling Exercise for Researchers As I have mentioned previously on the socials, I’m trying to start a journaling habit. I try to do it at the end of the day as a wind down…
PhD - Day-to-Day Making Email as Low Stress as I Can: 🧠 Brain STREAM 19 Struggling with email imbalance? Here's 7 Principles I use to reduce stress in my inbox and beyond.
PhD - Day-to-Day Daily Work Habits For PhD Students and Researchers Reduce the friction by developing regular habits to help you stay on top of everything.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 15: Blips and bits Don't stress about using every moment of time to get things done, but do use them when the rest of your time doesn't go to plan and recognise how much time they add up to.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 12: New Years Resolutions More Successful Than You Think I have always had low expectations for New Years Resolutions, but perhaps I am wrong!
PhD - Day-to-Day Compound Your PhD Research Process Through Practising Daily Habits and Routines I'm a firm believer in small daily habits compounding into greater things. By focusing on developing regular habits we can benefit from the influence of compounding, and reap the beneficial impacts on time in the longer run.
Skills - Time Management Why I Love Doing a Personal Weekly Review in Obsidian A personal weekly review can be a very effective technique to focus on what is going well and to eliminate the things to help keep your focus.
Skills - Time Management How To Make a PhD Timeline Template in Word I've created a step-by-step guide to create a super easy and professional looking PhD timeline template. Or download my ready made templates.
Skills - Time Management Why Most Plans and Goals are Like an All You Can Eat Buffet More often than not people take the all you can eat buffet approach to planning out their research. Read on to find out a healthier approach.
Skills - Time Management How to Set SMART(-YO!) Goals For a PhD In this epic second part I share how to go about setting goals that mean something to you and the people around you.
Skills - Time Management Example Goals and Sub Goals For a PhD Researcher In this post, I have outlined my overall PhD goal, my sub-goals and how these might map onto a monthly task list. I hope this example will help you in designing your own series of PhD goals.
PhD - Parenting How To Manage Parenting and a Do a PhD at the Same Time There's no secret to managing a PhD and all the chaos that being a parent also brings. In this post I share some of my own coping strategies.
Creator Diaries Featured Boring To-Do Lists? Not If You Study Leonardo da Vinci Because he knew how to write to-do lists I actually want to do.
Skills - Time Management We are Time’s Subjects, and Time Bids Be Gone I’m looking for some advice on task management. I need a method with intrinsic value which transcends digital applications.
Skills - Time Management Why timing and guilt are key to changing habits Today is Sunday and every Sunday morning my daughter and I make pancakes, almost without fail. It has become a weekly habit.
Skills - Time Management Progress is not always tangible, sometimes it’s just cleaning out the crap I missed a day writing yesterday; I decided to have a lie in instead. Roll on the failure train and the regret and the disappointment.
Skills - Time Management 5am Club | What it is and what it isn’t. 5am club. It’s that mysterious club that will magically set up your life for the day; or will it?
