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Category Archives: Habit

Get Your Writing Done by Christmas!

Get Your Writing Done by Christmas!

Do you have a writing project that you need to get done by the end of the year? Would you like to enjoy the Christmas holidays without the weight of it hanging over your head? Me too!!! There are just 11 weeks to go until Christmas! …Are you up for the challenge? Let’s get ourContinue Reading

You calendar and how you use it

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 suggestContinue Reading

Your habit of making promises

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 aboutContinue Reading

One foot on the gas, one foot on the break

One foot on the gas, one foot on the break

Do you feel like you have one foot on the gas and one foot on the break? No matter how hard you try to accelerate and gain momentum with your projects, do you keep stumbling and feeling huge resistance? In today’s video I show you the ways we slow ourselfes down, self-sabotage our success, andContinue Reading

“Another week has passed and I still have not started”

“Another week has passed and I still have not started”

Do you want to introduce a new weekly habit of a sport exercise, music practice or writing but don’t know how to make a start? Do you often think: “Yet another week has passed and I still have not started…”? No matter how much you promise yourself that “it will happen this week” it justContinue Reading