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Category Archives: Meeting deadlines

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

How to create more time for your work by saying No

How to create more time for your work by saying No

(This article was originally published in the first issue of the Productivity Insights ezine on the 12th of November 2010. It is a 5 years anniversary! The Productivity Insights ezine is now 5 years old and has over 2500 subscribers from around the world. CLICK HERE to sign up for the Productivity Insights ezine) TheContinue Reading

How to create accountability

How to create accountability

You would probably agree with me that creating accountability helps you to become more productive. This is because work loves to be measured and to be accountable for. In this video, I share with you how to create an outside accountability. I explain how exactly we do it in any of my courses and programs!Continue Reading

What to do if you’re sick and tired of your writing project

What to do if you’re sick and tired of your writing project

Are you working on a writing project with a tight deadline? It’s maybe your proposal, an application, your thesis or a paper that you have promised to send to your co-authors. You have worked hard on it for days or even weeks. And now you are tired physically, and you are also sick and tiredContinue Reading

How to meet your deadlines stress free

How to meet your deadlines stress free

Do you feel a lot of stress trying to meet your deadline “last minute”? Do you get upset about the quality of your work wishing you’d have started working on it earlier and left a bit more time for proofreading and improving? Then this video is for you! In this video I share with youContinue Reading