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
Productivity for Scientists
Category Archives: Planning
5 ways to make your 2019 more intentional
If you want to achieve more of what is important to you, if you want to feel more on track and in charge of your year, here are FIVE ways to make your 2019 more intentional! Don’t end up in December 2019 feeling like you’ve “just been busy” the whole year. Make a plan now… Continue Reading
Overwhelmed this December? Here is what to do!
With the end of the year in sight, we tend to pile up more and more work on our plate “to be completed by the end of the year”. In additional to the deadlines that would have been there anyway we also promise ourselves and others to complete things “by the end of December”. This… 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
Your strategic plan for 2017
With the start of the New Year and returning from holidays back to work you might be beginning to feel overwhelmed… There are many items on your to-do list, many new and old things in your schedule and many demands on your time. And you might be noticing that the new intentions and habits you… Continue Reading