Do you set your standards high, but always feel like you’ve failed? Learn about the 3 “P’s” and end the vicious cycle that keeps you stuck and ineffective. Perfectionism, procrastination, and paralysis one often leads to the next, in a vicious cycle, especially on large, long-term projects with no clear deadlines. Lets look at each part of this cycle, and explore some concrete steps that you can take to disrupt the cycle.
These complicated graduate studies.
Provides practical information on how to organize your time during your graduate studies. Describes the possibilities to reduce and alleviate the stress of the students at Graduate schools.
3 Free Sources to Get Dissertation Help From
Have you got to give in your dissertation in the next 20 days and you havent started it yet? You find yourself badly stuck and dont know what to do. You have absolutely no idea where to get the dissertation help from or how to even get started.
Are You Setting Yourself Up to Procrastinate?
“How can I stop procrastinating?”
This is by far the most frequent question that I get from graduate students and professors. As a dissertation and tenure coach, Ive come to realize that everyone in academia, whether writing a dissertation, completing an article, or doing research, struggles with procrastination. Why is this so prevalent in such a well-educated, intelligent population?
Get It Out Of Your Head And Into a Mind Map
Do you ever feel like you have some great ideas, but when you sit down to write them, they’re not so great? Or even worse, you can’t really get a sense of what the ideas were? In one of my graduate student coaching groups we have been discussing the difficulty of translating partly formed ideas into words on paper. One technique that makes use of a normally underutilized part of our brain is called “Mind Mapping.” What is a Mind Map?
Junior Faculty Balancing Act: Teaching, Part I
My website poll of 96 junior faculty members has an unequivocal winner. The poll asks, “What is the hardest part about being a junior faculty member?” Over a third of the respondents chose “Teaching takes up so much time” as their response.
Exactly How Time Consuming is Teaching? Surveys of how professors spend their time indicate that professors as a group, from junior to full professors, spend 29-30 hours a week at a minimum on activities related to teaching. Obviously, new faculty, who tend to have a higher teaching load than do full professors, and who are often teaching classes that they have never taught before, probably spend more than 30 hours a week. At some colleges with more of a teaching emphasis, it has been estimated that new professors may spend 50-60 hours a week on teaching.
When it comes to teaching, there are specific actions you can take. Here are some of his recommendations that I believe are the easiest to implement.