One of the ways to make sure a change in your life sticks is to make what you want to do so easy to do, you can’t avoid it. Another way is to adjust your environment so that going back to the old way is more difficult. Not given to easy solutions, I suppose, I [...]
My loyal fanbase (Rani and Cassidy) have asked when I would start posting again, after a pause of some months. I stopped in April because the semester was getting pretty intense with a big paper for the research methods class, a workshop I was helping plan and execute, ongoing angst about the PhD, and, oh [...]
Tagged Skin cancer, Time MachineInspired by Rani’s post about her upcoming work (hope that’s going well for you, Rani), it’s probably a good idea for me to look at the months ahead. The spring semester starts tomorrow. I’m spending today cleaning up my office, recycling pages and pages of article printouts, putting away the CDs we used for the [...]
Tagged DoIReallyWantaPhd?, Mark Forster, TheStateOfTheMike, Time managementHere’s the regular daily ‘scope: People are more impressed by your efficiency than by your eagerness to please. You need to back up your smiles with an authentic performance. Additional diplomacy must be carried in your toolbox. Here’s usually the most interesting thing. Let’s make a date to check it next year, shall we? If [...]
Tagged LibraAndProudOfIt