Tag: productivity
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Positivity Challenge
I was having a bit of a crisis the other day about how much I had committed to and whether I would do a decent job at any of it to two friends and colleagues. They gave me a bit of a pep talk. And then set me a challenge – to stop beating myself…
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Making Mondays Manageable
I’ve been getting really stressed out on Mondays lately. I realized why when I called someone out on doing the exact same thing. Monday mornings I do my “snippets” – I make a list of things I achieved the previous week. And I mentally plan what I want to achieve over the course of the coming…
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Giving Up On Goals
I’m not doing my weekly review at the moment. At first it was in part because I was ashamed to admit that I hadn’t yet unpacked my apartment (it’s done now). But also, I showed up to the coffee shop to work with my mentee and something exciting had happened to her, and she said,…
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Maintaining Optimum Stress Level
At Ignite Waterloo a guy gave a talk about “Why All My Ex-Girlfriends Are Crazy”. Of course, I was dying to know why. The reason? They were women who having achieved at university and then started their career had got to a point in their lives where they no longer had the same level of…
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The Ultimate Productivity Boost
I checked off everything on the list last week. It wasn’t even down to the line – at 1400h on Friday all that was left was one kickboxing class. I hung out, caught up on some reading, watched an episode of Scrubs and then went out for dinner. And I thought about how it was…
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A Diet of Live Frogs
Monday: Going to the DV and exchanging my license – surprisingly painless. Tuesday: Going outside. Wednesday: Laundry, paying bills. Thursday: Dealing with insurance people. Friday: Going to Carleton How Was It? Not as bad as I thought it would be, most things were less awful than anticipated (apart from going to Carleton). Even though I…
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Eating Live Frogs
Reflecting on Sunday’s post on Effectiveness and Time Management, and my reluctance to eat live frogs in the morning, it’s occurred to me that: I don’t tend to have a “most important task”, because most of my tasks are fairly open ended. Each day I have something that I want to make some progress on,…
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Productivity for Minions
Google this, there’s nothing useful. Someone needs to write a book on this! I’d buy it, would you? If not, hopefully it’s because you’re not a minion. Grad students are basically minions. I am the minion of my supervisor (luckily he’s nice), the minion of any prof whose course I take (to a lesser extent)…
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How to be Crazy-Busy Without Losing Your Mind
This post is for my friend Rachelle, who emailed me earlier this week saying, How do you stay sane with all that you do? Is the trick to carve out mini-relaxations/blow off steam whenever you can? Maybe I just haven’t given myself permission to do that enough and created a bigger problem now. First off,…