time management marc cadotte, oct. 2009. a learned skill time requirements can get out of control:...
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Time management
Marc Cadotte, Oct. 2009
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A learned skill
• Time requirements can get out of control:– Stress– Anxiety– Depression– Leave grad school
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Need a sense of control over your time = sanity
Items for your planning:• Writing/outlining research questions• Training: courses• Teaching• Appointments with supervisor and committee• Design/set-up experiments/studies• Data collection• Analyzing data/reporting measurements• Writing papers/chapters/articles• Rewriting papers/chapters/articles• Meetings/presentations• Finding a publisher/lay out/submitting• Administrative duties• Holidays• The unexpected!
What matters at the end of the day…
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The people around you are happy (i.e., good collaborator/colleague, good with students, etc.)
Papers, papers, papers
The seven masters: tips for gaining time and sanity
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• Add everything to your calendar.
• Allot time for timely things (e.g., analysis).
• Share your calendar with lab mates.
2) Leave!
• Go to your special place:– Library (back corner)– Coffee shop– Home
• Keep it a secret.
• Don’t bring e-mail.
3) Take a break
• Get up from the desk at a natural break.– Go for a walk– Grab a coffee– Have scheduled tea time– Play solitaire– Facebook witty comments on your friends’
posts.
4) Delagate
• Ask collaborators to do things.
• Recruit undergraduate volunteers or thesis students.
• Ask a friend for help.
5) Write it down or loose it!
• Write down thoughts/ideas, you will loose them.
• Lists! Create to-do lists, or else you put off things and stress about them.
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6) Enough is enough!
• It will NEVER be perfect.• More sophisticated
analyses are not going to change the P < 0.00001.
• Submit it -reviewers will ALWAYS have revisions.
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