Today I want to share with you this funny video by Ellen DeGeneres on procrastination. Sometimes simply hearing someone describing the procrastination and laughing about it helps you to stop procrastinating and to get going with the task! So what to do if you have the whole day to yourself and want to get… Continue Reading
Productivity for Scientists
Category Archives: Stop procrastinating
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
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
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 you… Continue Reading
Co-author not returning your paper?
You have drafted a paper and sent it to your co-author, boss or your supervisor, but you have not heard anything back from them for a number of weeks now. Frustrating, isn’t it? You really want to get it out of the way and focus on another project. Or maybe it is important to you… Continue Reading