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 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 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...
by thetendingyear | Apr 23, 2019 | Personal Development, Project Management, Time Management, Values
I used to do this thing I called “libra cleaning.” It involved gathering up all of the mess in a room, throwing it in a closet or drawer, and then shutting the door to hide the disorder and feign a clean home. Looking back, I’m not sure that libra...
by thetendingyear | Apr 9, 2019 | Mindfulness, Productivity, Project Management
This method has quickly become one of my faves. In fact, I’d rate it up there alongside the Must-Do Method, which I use on the daily. I heard about the “brick by brick” method in motivational speaker Mel Robbins’s Audible original, Take Control...
by thetendingyear | Apr 2, 2019 | Productivity, Project Management, Time Management, Values
Reflection shouldn’t be limited to December. If you’re on The Tending Letter mailing list , you learned in yesterday’s letter that I am theming April the “Month of No.” I decided on this theme after I reflected on the ways I overcommitted...
