I've recently identified one strategy that has been helping me keep up with my masters thesis research. Sometimes "breaking the seal" of a task is the hardest part for me. This is especially true with reading. If I think that I need to find the perfect focus opportunity to begin my reading it will simply never happen. Additionally, I spend a lot of time commuting bc I live in NYC and go to school in a different borough than where I live. So I've started reading on the train. This is obviously just about the worst environment you could imagine for focused attention, and its true that sometimes I simply can't manage it. But for some reason, even if I only get a few paragraphs or pages into a reading it makes it easier to dive back into it later. So its not so much that I am trying to get as much done as possible by trying to make my commute productive, rather I'm just setting myself up to be able to get back into the reading later on. Thanks for your posts, Kate!
Yess yoga in Minneapolis does almost all of their classes hybrid, so you can join virtually! I moved out of Minneapolis in 2019 but still do yoga with Lucia & others there because I love them so much.
Excellent advice here! I’m at the point of the semester where my grading pile is taking over, I have so many other committee responsibilities, and I’m just overwhelmed. I’ve train brain dumps, but they don’t seem to alleviate ALL THE THINGS constantly swirling in my brain. It’s exhausting.
I've recently identified one strategy that has been helping me keep up with my masters thesis research. Sometimes "breaking the seal" of a task is the hardest part for me. This is especially true with reading. If I think that I need to find the perfect focus opportunity to begin my reading it will simply never happen. Additionally, I spend a lot of time commuting bc I live in NYC and go to school in a different borough than where I live. So I've started reading on the train. This is obviously just about the worst environment you could imagine for focused attention, and its true that sometimes I simply can't manage it. But for some reason, even if I only get a few paragraphs or pages into a reading it makes it easier to dive back into it later. So its not so much that I am trying to get as much done as possible by trying to make my commute productive, rather I'm just setting myself up to be able to get back into the reading later on. Thanks for your posts, Kate!
Yess yoga in Minneapolis does almost all of their classes hybrid, so you can join virtually! I moved out of Minneapolis in 2019 but still do yoga with Lucia & others there because I love them so much.
Excellent advice here! I’m at the point of the semester where my grading pile is taking over, I have so many other committee responsibilities, and I’m just overwhelmed. I’ve train brain dumps, but they don’t seem to alleviate ALL THE THINGS constantly swirling in my brain. It’s exhausting.