Time-blocking IV – my planning routine
Time-blocking my way through postdoc life IV – my routine to plan my academic life This is a post about my planning routine. I promised to write about it and share my time-blocking experience...
How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
We all could use some more productivity, right? And productivity is such a big topic in the corporate world. They have all those coaches and self-help books but there aren’t nearly as many resources for Academia. That’s where we come in trying to adapt some popular productivity advice for the realm of Academia.
Time-blocking my way through postdoc life IV – my routine to plan my academic life This is a post about my planning routine. I promised to write about it and share my time-blocking experience...
As you may know, I like watching what’s happening in the personal development sphere and wondering how that might apply to my life in academia. One idea I currently keep seeing in the self-help...
As part of our goal to have more short posts with quick takeaways, today I’m sharing some key insights from a few books that have had a huge impact on my thinking around work,...
Time-blocking part III – how to get into a new system Time-blocking is still one of the leading productivity hashtags out there – vlogs, blogs, books, coaches – everyone talks about time-blocking, amongst all...
It seems like ages since I wrote my first part of this time-blocking series (it was back in May 2023). Initially, I wanted to do a follow-up post on my planning routine, but then...
Welcome, dear readers. Happy Holidays! I hope you have a nice and quiet Christmas break – no matter what, where, and with whom you celebrate. Have a good time, stay healthy, and get a...
Brace yourselves, I have something revolutionary to say. You work the best when well-rested. When you’re well-rested, you’re not constantly running on a low battery and about to crash; you have enough energy to...
I spent the weekend meditating at a silent retreat and had a big insight during a work meditation session (where you attempt to do household chores with awareness) that I wanted to share with...
Today, I want to give a brief reivew of Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload (Penguin 2021, see also the author’s website). The summary situates the...
You might have heard about time blocking (or time chunking) by now. If not, this is the short Wikipedia definition of it: Timeblocking or time blocking (also known as time chunking) is a productivity...
Happy New Year, everyone! Wherever you are, I hope you came good into this 2023. May it be a healthy, successful and marvellous year for all of you! So… a new beginning. Well, that’s...
This post is basically my academic writing walk of shame, because – really, guys, I am embarrassed to tell you this – but, okay… I must confess: I have a summer writing to-do-list, like...
Our posts on “wisdom from bouldering” have turned into quite a series. I’m surprised myself each time that bouldering has something more to teach me about life. But I guess you’ll always take away...
Normally, I would start with wishing you a healthy, successful and overall adventurous new year, but we have reached February already, so… I hope your first weeks in 2022 have been good and you...
Today’s post is on how to not go crazy in crazy times. Don’t be afraid. It’s not a rant full of negativity. It’s not about quarantine or lockdown or vaccination or any of those...