by thetendingyear | Jul 16, 2019 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Time Management, Values
I’ve talked before about the expendability of personal resources like time, spoons, focus, or money, but it wasn’t until recently when I was relistening to Sarah Knight’s The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck that I realized I needed to add “fucks given” to my...
by thetendingyear | Jul 9, 2019 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Project Management, Time Management
This post is a special treat for productivity lovers. To write this post, I compiled a special series I wrote for PhD Balance (formerly known as Ph_D_epression), a “collaborative community talking about mental health in graduate school.” They invited me...
by thetendingyear | Jun 25, 2019 | Chronic Pain, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Values
I live by a balance of routines, rhythms, and rituals. I worked hard to test out different practices and find a pattern that supported me well. Recently, however, my triple-R system has been off, which means I’ve been leaning heavily on another R: rest....
by thetendingyear | Jun 18, 2019 | Mindfulness, Productivity, Project Management, Time Management, Workaholism
This is my seventy-seventh post, and I have to say that after all of the productivity tools I have explored, my favorite remains the Must-Do Method. I first learned about the Must-Do Method in Sarah Knight’s book Get Your Shit Together, and I loved it so much that I...
by thetendingyear | May 28, 2019 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Time Management, Values, Workaholism
I am riding the “what’s my intention” wave. I mentioned way back in my 1.48 post, “Social Media with Intention and Awareness,” that I had limited my Instagram usage to an hour a day. I can say that I stick to that about 90% of the time....
by thetendingyear | May 21, 2019 | Dissertation, Productivity, Project Management, Time Management
It’s about time I wrote this post. No pun intended! Pomodoro is a time management tool I’ve mentioned many time before in The Tending Year, but I thought it was high time to dedicate a whole post to it because I’ve been using it a hell of a lot to...
