by thetendingyear | Jul 9, 2019 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Project Management, Slow Living, 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, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Slow Living, Values, Workaholism
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, Slow Living, Technology, 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 | Habit formation, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Technology, 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, Workaholism, Writing
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...
by thetendingyear | May 7, 2019 | Chronic Pain, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Time Management, Values, Workaholism
We rely on our resources to accomplish our goals. In order to learn how to better manage my personal resources, I spent a whole week documenting and analyzing my experience with specific resources (money, time, energy, focus, willpower, presence, and connection, to...
