Greetings all! I hope you all had a productive, fruitful, happy week. I am finally beginning to find my footing again, and hope I can sustain this more positive rhythm.
Something that comes up often in writing group posts is what I might lump together under the heading of “other people’s stuff”--whether it’s a partner or parent in need, a childcare issue, an administrative bump, or a coauthor/colleague issue, these aren’t the thing to which we can choose to say yes or no. Rather, they are tasks we cannot refuse. So the question, then, is what strategies can we employ to reframe our own agendas in light of new plates being tossed at us that we have to add to those already spinning?
Week 2 goals:
Allan Wilson: 1) exercise 4x, 2) redo an analysis for my FS paper, 3) recheck comments from a colleague critique for FS, and 4)consult with coauthor.
Amstr: Goals for the week: 1) re-read article and make final changes; 2) read 2 chapters of Diss to Book; 3) re-read 2 diss chapters; 4) exercise 4x; 5) 1 syllabus and 1 letter for jobs.
Contingent Cassandra: (1) continue cooking (and eating, and sleeping); add some exercise; (2) continue work on garden; (3)do some work on financial matters.
Daisy: 1) Get revisions on paper 1 sent off. 2) Get paper 2 complete. 3) Get grant application ready for review.
Der Modell Wissenschaftler: no check in
Earnest English: 1) Be as calm as possible. 2) Make sure to eat, especially at work, and take care of self, taking time out when needed. Meditation or writing sessions at work would be excellent. 3) Do at least 3 half hour sessions of work on Beloved Field. 4) Prep without panic and without not sleeping. 5) Exercise at least twice. 6) Get in a couple homeschooling sessions. 7) Get work done in timely non-panicking manner. 8) Gardening projects. 9) Show my family that I can be with them when I'm with them. 10) Read for conference presentation.
Elizabeth Anne Mitchell: 1) Yoga/meditation. 2) 1500 words on the article. 3) 1/2 hour a day on the dossier.
Good Enough Woman: 1) 25 more pages of theory-related material. 2) Make one appointment (probably dermatologist). 3) Walk 3x with the dog.
Humming42: 1) Write 15 minutes a day. 2) Exercise at least three times a week. 3) At least three times a week, meditate, do yoga, or do art project.
Ivy: 1) complete tidying up comments from co-authors. Get Methods and Results sections into a reasonable state. 2) do additional stats for postdoc advisor on large-lab-paper-lead-by-former-lab-member. 3) determine species for this summer's fieldwork and check out sites. 4) sell car! A friend is buying to for a nominal amount, just have to complete paperwork.
JaneB: 1) domestic infrastructure: chase up garden quotes, finance appointment, vaccinate cat, fetch repeat prescription. Spend 15 minutes a day on chores or other domestic items. 2) prep teaching materials up to next Wednesday and confirm arrangements for overnight field visit. 3) finish first draft of admin report and send to other colleagues for their input. 4) Do three lots of 30-45 minutes on Crunchier, then send it back to co-authors.
KJHaxton: (1) Draft of CPD thing, wrangle peripheral paperwork into good shape. Send to someone to read. (2) Finish 1st year teaching prep. (3) Spend the first 40 mins of each day quietly doing something on this list or similar.
Matilda: 1) Write up the big grant application. 2) Exercises, no midnight snacks, French. - thinking about my poor teeth, which are in poor condition, I must avoid sweets and eat regularly.
Susan: On research trip.
Hello All,
ReplyDeleteI found an Ap called WunderList which works on my macs and iPad last weekend after thinking about this group. It lets you keep to-do lists sync'd between all devices, set deadlines and break tasks into smaller parts. I was looking for something that allowed me to track progress as much as set deadlines and so far it looks really good. I can see quickly what's urgent/scheduled for the day and by writing lists, can stop worrying that I'll forget to do something!
Last week goals:(1) Draft of CPD thing, wrangle peripheral paperwork into good shape. Send to someone to read. (2) Finish 1st year teaching prep. (3) Spend the first 40 mins of each day quietly doing something on this list or similar.
(1) - done, read by a couple of people, needs polish before submitting this week. (2) - mostly done, lectures sorted, just a bit of work on exam questions and problem sheets to do, (3) done on a few mornings, had some early meetings but not the chaos of the early mornings like the week before.
This week's goals: (1) polish and submit CPD thing, (2) finish 1st year teaching and make serious headway into 3rd year teaching, (3) do some non-work things: finish knitted blanket, make hair appointment, do something creative each day that isn't work.
I'm not sure I have strategies to reframe my agenda when more plates get thrown in. The to-do list thing seems to help a bit but mainly I remember the phrase 'poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part'. If someone's left stuff until the last minute, that's their fault (hopefully) and I try to do what I can but still prioritising my stuff.
I'll have to check out WunderList. I used to use OmniFocus, which I really liked, but I haven't used it in a while.
DeleteWunderlist is one of my favorites, because you can post a task that repeats every day. Mine was "breathe." As you note, it also enables you to break big projects into small tasks and schedule them over time.
DeleteSo good to have other readers review your work and provide feedback. Something I should do more often. :)
Last week's goals: (1) continue cooking (and eating, and sleeping); add some exercise; (2) continue work on garden; (3)do some work on financial matters.
ReplyDeleteAccomplished: (1) some, but not as much as I'd hoped on any front (a bit of ingredient-buying and some day-to-day cooking, but need to work on freezable soups & stews; mostly fully nights of sleep, with a couple of exceptions and some irregularity in hours; only exercise via gardening; (2) progress; (3) no progress. (Also, I'm a bit more caught up on grading, though not entirely, and that's very much TRQ. I'm also almost over my cold, finally).
Next week's goals: (1) continued work on self-care, especially exercise (walking & weights) & cooking (large batches to both eat & freeze); (2) continue work on garden; (3) do some financial work.
Topic: I'm not sure I have any great strategies, either, except to note that life has a way of happening (to us and others), and that sometimes one has to, to echo a phrase from the summer group, let things go without guilt, because other genuinely important and/or urgent things have come up. I do think the reality that life always happens is an argument against making plans that assume that everything will go smoothly, and all apparently-available time will be available, because it never works out that way. Getting a sense of how much wiggle room needs to be available in the average day, week, month, semester, or year, and planning for that, probably *is* helpful, if only because then the wiggle room doesn't come out of sleep, or vacation, or something else equally necessary to long-term functioning. Of course, even with wiggle room allowed for, major disasters/emergencies will still happen, which is where the letting-go-without-guilt (and taking advantage of any leave policies and other supports available) comes in.
I like what you say about planning wiggle room in so you don't lose sleep/vacation/downtime. But that means weeding out my priorities ahead, instead of in the moment. Such a challenge! (but a good one)
DeleteMore yes on the wiggle room idea. I tend to think I can do WAY more than I usually can, so I end up feeling disappointed with myself for coming up short. Also a good reminder of letting things go without guilt.
DeleteTopic: You described my week! Sick kids, late night + nap, and everything went by the wayside. My current problem is figuring out how to get back on track mid-week, once things go awry.
ReplyDeleteGoals for last week:
1) re-read my article and make final changes--nope.
2) read 2 chapters of Diss to Book--read 3 chapters.
3) re-read 2 diss chapters (skim what I read this summer)--nope.
4) exercise 4x--3x.
5) 1 syllabus and 1 letter for jobs--nope.
The good news: I’m taking care of my health. The bad news: I’ve gotten little done outside of my TRQ stuff.
This next week doesn’t look very promising. I have a lot of extra items this week (birthday parties on Columbus day, school meetings in the mornings, a field trip, extra carpool shifts) AND my spouse will be out of town for the week. And my brother is coming into town for a day. I have to remind myself that I wrote a dissertation squeezed into half hours here and there at times, so I can do that now. I will try to make my goals realistic, though.
I did have a great conversation with my husband about how teaching might fit into all that I’m doing. He suggested (and I think I agree) that I apply to the place where I’m pretty sure I can get a gig and start with just that the one application, since my goal is to get more recent experience.
Goals for the week: 1) re-read my article and highlight where changes should go (due 10/31, so it will become TRQ soon); 2) skim what I read of diss this summer and finish chapter I was on; 3) exercise 3x and track eating; 4) work on 1 job app (3x20min)
Spouse out of town, brother visiting, birthday parties...definitely sounds like a week in which it will be challenging to find bits of time. Taking care of your health is often at the foundation of everything else, so that is a really fine place to start and sustain.
Deletegoals for last week: 1) domestic infrastructure: chase up garden quotes, finance appointment, vaccinate cat, fetch repeat prescription. Spend 15 minutes a day on chores or other domestic items. 2) prep teaching materials up to next Wednesday and confirm arrangements for overnight field visit. 3) finish first draft of admin report and send to other colleagues for their input. 4) Do three lots of 30-45 minutes on Crunchier, then send it back to co-authors
ReplyDeleteachieved:1) quotes obtained, had £ appointment, took cat to vet, fetched repeat prescrip. However, now I need to make a decision about the quotes, do some paperwork and go back for another financial appointment, book the cat in for a scan, and set up an "approve continuing repeat prescription (with added weight lecture) appointment at my GPs. I hate when crossing off one item adds three more :-( Managed to do some chores on 3 days, which is more than none.
2) sort of prepped teaching materials and sent lots of emails about the overnight visit but did not manage to actually cross any single item off my list. Maybe I need to make the items even more finely divided... but then the list is dauntingly long...
3) I didn't finish the first draft of the admin report but I'm up to item 9 of 15 and the last 3 don't apply so... close
4) did not touch Crunchier. But I did do some research related stuff, attending a meeting about a possible PhD project, filling out a detailed form for another thing which included 250 word summaries of several current research ideas, and helping out with the second to last big sampling session for Summer Project (which spread into the Autumn, but actually that's turned out quite well for the Science if not the scientists!).
analysis: Life, it continues to get in the way, and I need to learn to be kinder to myself about this. I also need to get better at not listening to other people (other people keep causing me great fits of irritation or self-doubt, and really, that's just handing power to people I don't like or don't respect or simply don't agree with, which is silly). I also need to just get ON with Crunchier, to make way for other things... er... sometime.
The coming week is going to be a hard one, as I'm having to teach on my nominal day off, there's a university grant deadline, and the week ends with another marathon committee meeting. If I can get ahead a bit, though, I need to, as the FOLLOWING week has extra sessions of teaching in it for some reason.
goals for next week: 1) infrastructure. Sort out scan for cat, make decisions about money things and garden things. 15 minutes of chores a night. 2) 3 x 45 minutes on Crunchier, send to co-authors. 3) application for university grant thing. 4) turn the computer off by 10pm each evening [because SLEEP is going to be important...].
So many plates! So much juggling! Noteworthy: even if you didn't cross everything off on your list, you made incremental steps forward on so many fronts. It's important to take a moment of satisfaction there, especially for those of us who need to be kinder to ourselves about life getting in the way.
Delete"I hate when crossing off one item adds three more." Yes, exactly! It feels like backsliding rather than progress! There must be some zen ways to think about this.
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ReplyDeleteOn the topic: what strategies can we employ to reframe our own agendas in light of new plates being tossed at us that we have to add to those already spinning?
This is partly why I log what I actually do now and then. NOT to 'try and be more efficient by cramming more in', but to get a feeling for an average at least of the plates that get thrown in - how often things come up, how much of a typical week is likely to involve fire-fighting or tear-mopping or less dramatic but similar stuff. Often it's as much as 40-50% of my not-in-the-classroom time. That lets me make better plans in the first place - if I teach 10 hours, then I have about 20 hours of actual focused work time available to play with, but can expect to lose up to 10 hours of that. So I then set my goals for the week as if I only have 10 hours available... increases the chance of actually meeting some of them!
For the bigger stuff, illness and other derailers, I've got better at just throwing up my hands and tossing my list and having a small, private tantrum then dealing with the new situation, then replanning when I have a better idea of the size of the disruption. But yeah, that's why Crunchier is so late, and Very Late got its name... my challenge is not so much managing my work around those things, it's managing my emotions about my work. the Dame's Bugge Spray is needed to deal with all the work-delaying guilt and anxiety and self-recrimination delays can cause.
This will be a good week for me to try logging how I spend my time. I'll include that in my soon to come goals for the week.
DeleteIf I ever start a band, I'll call it The Small Private Tantrums. :)
I've just started reading How to Write A Lot, which advises tracking work. I've never really done that, but I might try. I'm afraid I might get depressed by how little I do since I usually only have about 2-3 hours per week for the PhD.
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ReplyDeleteLast Week
ReplyDelete1) Be as calm as possible: Mainly did a good job here, but I get angry and frustrated so quickly, I think I need to investigate that more. I'm doing this through thinking about Happiness Projects and figuring out how I can make myself happier.
2) Make sure to eat, especially at work, and take care of self, taking time out when needed. Meditation or writing sessions at work would be excellent: Eating between classes is very challenging. Did okay on this this week, but no meditation. Must get energy bars.
3) Do at least 3 half hour sessions of work on Beloved Field. Did it with no problem.
4) Prep without panic and without not sleeping. I had one bad low-sleep night.
5) Exercise at least twice. Nope.
6) Get in a couple homeschooling sessions. Did this.
7) Get work done in timely non-panicking manner. Managed this mostly.
8) Gardening projects. Dependent on factors outside my control -- we've now had our first frost so not only are many things dead, but it's time to plant both garlic and spring bulbs. I hope to get started on this this week, but I have to figure this out because of rain.
9) Show my family that I can be with them when I'm with them. Mostly.
10) Read for conference presentation. Nope.
The question is what strategies can we use to affirm our priorities when more balls are continually thrown at us. Here's one that I learned but obviously didn't follow last week: having few but vital priorities. This site, which has many useful tips: http://zenhabits.net/27-great-tips-to-keep-your-life-organized/ Among the best, to me, are MITs: Most Important Things. These are three things that are the priorities for one's day. I like this because I can easily remember three, and then if everything else goes wrong, I can still think about the three and figure whether they need to be shoved off or not. I need to use this in the coming week.
Goals for This Week:
1) exercise once this week
2) take care of self re: food and panic and rushing around
3) sessions with Beloved Field, including sending work out to that call due this week
4) get next step done with gardening projects
Have a great week, everyone!
Thanks for the MIT tip. That sounds like a good approach to setting priorities among the seemingly endless list of things we want/need to do.
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ReplyDeleteLast goals:
1) Write up the big grant application. - Easiest parts are done, but the most important parts are still only half-done.
2) Exercises, no midnight snacks, French. -Exercises: 3 days. No midnight snacks: 2 days. French: 3 days.
Analysis:
I should have started to prepare for the grant application earlier. It seems I thought it would be easier, but the reality is not, of course. Only a few days left to submit. Ok, I will calm myself down and do my best. And midnight snacks!!! If I can never quit this bad habit, just start only one or two ‘no midnight snacks day’ a week?
Next goals:
1) Finish and submit the grant application.
2) Exercises, 2 ‘no midnight snacks day’ a week, French.
3) 15-minute-writing, 5 days.
Topic:
Well, I think I have no working strategy for this, though this always happens. I just do what I can do at that time. I usually allocate particular time to things a week- on Sundays with my children, for example - so I usually try not to take extra work more than allocated time (but sometimes I had to, naturally) and if I was not able to do things as I planned, I try to make up for it next week. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
I don't know where I heard this or it's true, but it's always been helpful to me. Apparently when Buddha was on his deathbed, those closest to him were gathered around and asked him how they should go on without him. Buddha said "do your best." So I loved seeing that in your discussion of the grant--it's true! You can only do your best.
DeleteAnd a thought on snacking, that sometimes works for me...if I brush my teeth shortly after dinner, I'm more likely not to snack because then I have to go brush again and it's not worth it. Sometimes.
Thank you for your comment, humming42! I like 'do your best' saying. Anyway, what you can do is the all what you can do. So, I'll just what I can do. Brushing teeth shortly after dinner! Yes, I will try that!
DeleteLast week's goals:
ReplyDelete1) 25 more pages of theory-related material. YES. More than 25.
2) Make one appointment (probably dermatologist). YES. I made a dentist appointment and a dermatologist appointment.
3) Walk 3x with the dog. UM...It might have just been twice, but I did some hiking this past weekend, too.
The week was fine. Nothing too crazy, and I've had some fall break days this weekend. Our family took a mini-break up to the mountains Friday and Saturday nights, which was lovely! But even though I don't have teaching today and tomorrow, I have SO. MUCH. GRADING. So I can't do as much TLQ (esp. dissertation) as I would like to.
I ordered "How to Write a Lot" and have read a few chapters about setting a schedule and tracking progress. Currently, I do have some allotted time slots just for writing/research (I get up early two days a week so that I have a least an hour on each of these days), but I might be able to allot one more time slot. These kind of allotments have definitely worked for me in the past, but it's going to be important to have more/longer allotments. Next semester, I'm going to have a bit more time for PhD work (I'll only be teaching 3 classes instead of 4), and setting a schedule will be important for me and the whole family so that we're all clear about what needs to happen.
What I haven't ever really done is tracked my progress. I might try doing that, either with Excel or Wunderlist (which I will investigate).
As for the topic of the week: I do get frustrated when kids get sick or meetings get scheduled, or whatever. But I think getting back to the schedule ASAP is helpful, and trying to have a few binge sessions here and there to make up for lost scheduled time helps me. Sometimes, if there has been a lot going on, and TRQ builds up and then squeezes out TLQ, I'll ask Hubby for a hall pass for a late-night coffee shop session when I'll go straight to a coffee shop after work and stay there until 9:00 or 10:00. These catch-up times can make a world of difference when things get crazy. But sometimes, things just knock me flat. Last January, the kids were quite sick--back and forth--for about five weeks. It was stressful and I couldn't make progress with the PhD. Also, just over a year ago, my son had a lot of night-time anxiety and was waking up almost every night for 3-4 months. That made early morning wake-ups impossible. But we've been fortunate that all of these illnesses and troubles have been temporary. (Well, my son's anxiety comes back now and again...)
This week's goals:
1) Set up a proper system for goal setting and progress tracking
2) Walk 3x with dog
3) Review construction quotes for bathroom renovation, take next steps
4) Read 25 pages of theoretical context source
5) Review feedback from PhD supervisor about Chapter 3 of PhD thesis
Hall pass...brilliant! It's good to have a way to ask for the time/space you need to get work done, to catch up, and to be able to make that space for yourself.
DeleteI know, kids do get sick when you are busy... Also, my son still sometimes wakes up and cries in the midnight and I have to leave my book and go to the bedroom to soothe him. I just try to accept the reality. Anyway, I sometimes think kids grow up so fast and they will not need me like this in the future. But now it is tough, yes, very much.
DeleteI'm sorry I missed checking in last week -- I just forgot. So I didn't set goals for this last week, which was probably good -- I had two days largely eaten by outside demands.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of my work, I've made progress on the writing, except that I got stuck for almost two days on a place where I feel as if I don't know enough. I've now decided to just keep going, and then when I get to the end of the chapter go back to figure out how I will fix this problem. So the writing is a bit slower than I hoped, but not terrible.
I've done very well on sleep, not so well on exercise. I'm also cooking a bit (goal, once a week real food). So healthy living, mostly.
Goals for next week: get through two more sections of hte chapter, but then I head to a conference on Thursday. So it's a truncated week. My plan is to do some of the admin type stuff I have -- a promotion review, a manuscript -- on the plane.
I want to keep sleeping and eating well. And at least two days of exercise. (Exercise has been hampered by a shoulder injury, which has also occasioned a few drs visits...)
On the domestic front, my porch is being replaced, and I'll be buying a new door and getting the whole house painted. I won't do much on this this week, though I've procrastinated by examining front doors online, but next week I want to get the painting estimates.
So that makes the goals:
1. two more writing sections
2. promotion review and ms. review while traveling
3. (Possibly) order door and lights for new porch.
4. Eat well, get at least one walk in. (My conference is in a foodie city, so I will eat well. It won't be low calorie, though.)
As for the problems tossed your way, well, as others have said, there is no way to plan for it except to not kill yourself when they happen. I like CCs idea of building in wiggle room -- sometimes I do and sometimes I don't; but I'm pretty good at just reframing my list.
Although you have a truncated week, you have also planned how to manage your time and goals in flight and in conference city. I do enjoy the amount of work I can do at a conference when it's almost like a retreat--on the plane, in the hotel, there are few of the daily demands so I can focus without distraction.
DeleteYes, travel is often a good place to get focused work on limited projects done, and I've been known to leave conference stuff to work on things that need to get done.
DeleteThe trick with airplane reading is actually doing the work. I can easily take naps, or veg with skymall:) So I'll be curious to see how much I manage to finish!
I will also try for working on many planes this week - I find the trick is to pack the headphones and the e-reader in checked luggage so I have nothing to do on the plane except work :)
DeleteFor those who are thinking about Wunderlist, I just got an announcement about a new feature they've developed that is a game-winner for me--being able to sync my google calendar with wunderlist. Google's task function is worthless, so I'm irrationally excited about this. Here's a link if you're interested.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wunderlist.com/blog/sync-your-calendar-with-wunderlist/
Goals for last week:
ReplyDelete1) complete tidying up comments from co-authors (Paper 1b). Get Methods and Results sections into a reasonable state. - nope, got thrown off track by postdoc supervisor who wants an additional set of data collected by another postdoc added (the other postdoc and I decided those data weren't worth adding…)
2) do additional stats for postdoc advisor on large-lab-paper-lead-by-former-lab-member (Paper 1a). sort of - I did those stats, generated graphs which lead to a whole additional pile of analyses. I think these data are going tortured until they generate a Nature/Science publication…
3) determine species for this summer's fieldwork and check out sites. half-way - have a tentative species list but still need to check out sites. Seriously raining so will aim to go Thursday when it's forecast to be fine.
4) sell car! A friend is buying to for a nominal amount, just have to complete paperwork. Done! Paperwork was more complex than it should've been but done!
Goals for this week
1) Try not to stress about Papers 1a and 1b. Be zen. They're interlinked - I'm lead on 1b and another postdoc whose left is lead on 1a. 1a in particular is turning into a complete drama and I'm doing more work than I should for my 3rd author status… 1b actually could be a relatively simple clean straight forward story if it was allowed to be. I'll have to keep working on them
2) First draft of Discussion for Paper 2 where only co-authors are technician and postdoc supervisor. Post-doc supervisor is less interested in this paper and technician has moved on. I'll actually be able to move on this and potentially get it submitted by the end of the year unlike 1a and 1b
3) Head out to field sites. Check out plants, start collecting samples for analysis. Any move here is a win.
4) Start processing samples from FNQ trip a month ago. Again any move here is a win.
5) Do something fun!
Re this week's topic - I'm working on being zen about co-authors / postdoc supervisor's issues. Many of the issues stem from decisions that were made before I was employed and there's not much I can do about them. Allowing myself to get worked up about them really isn't going to help me.
I'm also trying to prioritise things that I can actually move on without others - hence trying to work on paper2 and items 3 and 4 on my list.
Last week's goals:
ReplyDelete1) Yoga/meditation. This has proven to be a necessary part of starting my day, and things go awry quickly if I don't give myself this time and quiet brain.
2) 1500 words on the article. Not quite. Only about 1000, but it's more than last week, so I'll take it.
3) 1/2 hour a day on the dossier. Actually a bit more than that, as I found myself panicking that it was mid-month, and "SO much to do." Calmer now. :)
Next week's goals: 1) Another 1000 on the article. 2) FInish the statement on research for the dossier. Must force myself! 3) continued self care--walks, creative activities, time to daydream, in addition to the yoga and meditation.
Topic: I love the MIT idea from Earnest English and the hall pass from GEW. I try to overestimate the time something takes by a small factor. If I overestimate too much, I know I can procrastinate, but if it is a small amount, it allows for the "life happens" moments a bit better.
I have logged my time, and it was somewhat depressing, as GEW fears, but the glory of it is to see where one is spending truly ridiculous amounts of time on things that are truly worthless (I used to play lots of computer games and watch lots of worthless television). I have trimmed those habits to acceptable-to-me levels, and have put sleep and walks in their stead. I don't miss them much, either.
Another late check-in, and a pretty rough week. Conference last week was great, but any travel throws off schedules. Add marking, sickness (cat and child, unrelated fortunately), lots of other people's stuff (partner drama) and it was a wreck. So I'm catching up by not sleeping much, which is of course only a temporary solution, but works. I think for the times where other people's stuff is overwhelming I have to let go of any personal time/plans and just deal with the urgent things first. Recover later...
ReplyDeleteLast week's goals:
1) Get revisions on paper 1 sent off. DONE
2) Get paper 2 complete. FAIL
3) Get grant application ready for review. FAIL but with good results
I did a really stupid thing the last few weeks - instead of working on a few things I wanted to discipline myself to not start anything new or old until a certain Paper Thing was done. The result? A frustrating few weeks where Paper Thing is half done, and nothing else is even close to done. I will rethink how I did that because I'm now behind on a number of things I wasn't behind with before this experiment.
I'm happy the first paper is gone again (hundredth round of revisions). Didn't get anything done on Paper 2, and decided to scrap the grant application completely until next year - better chance and all that. So failing with that actually had a good result.
This week's goal: any work at all on Paper 2 will be a win.
Traveling later this week to huge conference in fabulous city (where I will eat my weight in sushi!) and give a great talk. Then next week at end of week I get back here in the morning, teach for the day, and start driving to the next conference with a bunch of students that night, for three days. So I'll be useless next week, but that is a different day's problem.
Last week’s goals:
ReplyDelete1) Write 15 minutes a day (I’m warming up for AcWriMo and also have a conference paper due to respondent next week)
2) Twice, child’s pose or sivasana.
3) Take care of at least two of those nagging service tasks I haven’t made time for.
No, all around. It’s kind of baffling to me how I can be so incredibly busy and still not get to the things to which I have committed. I logged my time on Monday but not on Tuesday--it was a useful and interesting process.
So then, for the week ahead (although we’re already well into it):
1) keep a daily log
2) write three days this week
3) meet my standing commitments, including a weekend visit with an old friend.
We’ll see how it goes.
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