Are you wondering how to fit all the things you need to do into one week? You might be busy trying to juggle many things and projects. And you might be noticing that while you are busy and working hard, the most important things don’t get the attention they deserve: there is simply not enough… Continue Reading
Productivity for Scientists
Category Archives: Discipline
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) The… Continue Reading
From procrastination into action: make paper writing easier by asking yourself these 3 questions
(This article was originally published as a guest post at the Literature Review HQ blog in April 2014) If you are a PhD student or a postdoc you might be familiar with this situation. You’ve conducted research, completed data analysis, made graphs and discussed the results with your colleagues or your supervisor. You maybe even… Continue Reading
Back to basics. Do you have THIS in place?
Today we are brushing up on time-management basics! This week I had a conversation with one of my private clients, with whom we’ve been working together for over 6 months now. Talking to her I’ve realised that we have been discussing really advanced productivity techniques, but she did not have this basic technique in place;… Continue Reading
How to be more productive on computer
When you sit down to work on your computer hoping to make progress in your project, do you find yourself getting distracted by other things? If you need to do something on the internet, do you easily get sucked in into reading e-mails, clicking links and checking them out? After a couple of hours of… Continue Reading