Email is not urgent
The biggest contributor to stress is feeling out of control. Email is one area many people feel out of control. In this track I talk about shifting how you think about email as part of a strategy to r...
31 Aug 20213min
Making Decisions: Peer Review
You want to do your share of peer review but the requests come in one at a time and need quick responses. In this track I discuss how big decisions about how many reviews you will do in a year and som...
26 Aug 20214min
Making Decisions: Meetings
We often think about meetings in terms of the time they take, but they also take a lot of energy. In this post, I discuss ways of reducing the impact of meetings on the energy you have available for y...
25 Aug 20217min
Making Decisions: Planning and Scheduling
In this track I apply the principles discussed in Managing the energy you use to make decisions to planning. A habit of planning weekly concentrates much of the decision making so you have fewer decis...
24 Aug 20217min
Overcommitted? Declaring a moratorium
It's easy to get overcommitted. In this track I talk about how to prevent things from getting worse so you can deliver on the commitments you've already made and reduce your overwhelm.Read the post he...
18 Aug 202112min
Managing the energy you use to make decisions
Decisions require energy. Habits, routines, and default responses reduce the energy you need to spend making decisions. This track explains the principles. Specific examples will be explained in separ...
11 Aug 20215min
Write All The Things! is not a summer plan
When you struggle to find time for writing during the regular semester, you might tell yourself that you'll get to it in the summer. That can lead to wildly unreasonable plans for your summer writing ...
6 Jul 20215min
Why join the Studio in the summer?
The Academic Writing Studio provides just enough structure and support to help you balance writing and rest during the summer with a community of like-minded scholars to help keep you on track.Join no...
6 Jul 20215min
