This is what your day can feel like when you use a not so good to do list. Make better to do lists. me trying to take control over my life pic.twitter.com/qe5JykOof8 — Animal Vines (@TheAnimalVines) April 18, 2017
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Thoughts, pictures, musings, and ramblings about the academic life.
Steven Pressfield has had a fascinating literary career. He persevered through odd jobs, personal and professional setbacks, and voluminous rejection slips before finally pubishing his first novel The Legend of Bagger Vance when he was 50 years old. The same year the novel was published, it was made into a movie. Pressfield has learned a […]
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Distractions are hiding everywhere, ready to pounce at a peak productive moment. They are one of the biggest obstacles to doing meaningful work. Below are the some of the most common distractions and tips for how to minimize them. E-Mail Anyone remember when e-mail was hailed as a great invention that revolutionized the way we […]
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The Internet and social media are filled with posts, memes, and images about “the grind.” This belief system that doing more is the minimum and doing less is unforgivable only leads to burnout with not a lot to show for all that doing. This program is not about the grind. Instead, it will focus on […]
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I was in the office of a member of my doctoral committee one day when I noticed tacked up on a wall next to each other were two to do lists. One was dated 2004, and the other was dated 2005. It was December 2010. Even sadder, not everything on the lists had been completed. […]
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Routines are powerful tools for productivity. Not all parts of our day require us to be fully present or mindful. We can use a routine to help make the mundane things we have to do easier to accomplish. By using a routine, we can conserve energy and save it for when we need to do […]
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Social media is awash in quotes, images, and memes about “the grind.” The grind is what busy people – those people who spend 2-3 hours a day in the gym, have a full-time job, and seemingly start a new side hustle every week – praise as the key to their life and work ethic. The […]
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February was a short but good month. I followed my new workout schedule and even switched it up mid-month to do a week of kettlebell workouts. Nothing makes you feel more like a Russian circus strongman than a kettlebell workout. Unfortunately, right at the end of the month my right wrist became very sore, so […]
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This is the third e-book I published. I decided to write a haiku a day for each day of 2016. The result is this book. A lot of work went into this book. Not to mention a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. Buy it here.
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Here is the second of the three e-books I published. April’s Cruelty contains the haikus I wrote daily for April 2013 and 2015. Buy it here.
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