March is International Women’s Month! Congratulations to all the women. Many inspirational and interesting articles and videos have been shared throughout this month. And today, on the last day of March I wanted to share with you some of my thoughts on this… I have always felt conflicted about this day because I grew up… Continue Reading
Productivity for Scientists
Category Archives: Change
You calendar and how you use it
Let’s talk about your calendar and how you use it. I have a question for you. Do you use your calendar for external appoinments only? Most of us do just that: we put in there the times of the group meetings, teaching, doctor appointments as well as meetings with the supervisor. I want to suggest… Continue Reading
Travelling analogy to help with your deadline
Today I want to share with you a strategy to help you get motivated and re-focus on your deadline! If you are a PhD student, you might be feeling lost or disheartened about your progress and doubting that you will ever get there. If you are a postdoc or staff you might have one of… Continue Reading
Greetings from Tenerife
I am on Tenerife right now, and I have recorded this video for you this morning to show how beautiful it is here!! In this video I also share with you what’s been going on during the 3 days Creating Change Women’s retreat that I am hosting here right now. I summarise for you two… Continue Reading
Your habit of making promises
Do you find yourself making promises to your supervisor or your co-authors to send the paper by a certain date and then “missing your own deadline”? When we promise to deliver the data analysis or the paper draft to someone, and then we forget about it and miss the deadline, we feel really bad about… Continue Reading