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Planning, or Juggling 101

book cover The Principles of JugglingMy approach to planning focuses on 3 key elements: Priorities, Boundaries, Slack. I have also elaborated these in my book The Principles of Juggling, illustrated by Amy Crook.

If you have come here because you are overwhelmed start with the Emergency Planning Technique. Once you've got things calmed down, you can then consider making a plan to keep things from getting out of control.

Are things getting worse? Or is dystopia the new normal?

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Jo VanEvery

"You got this" is written in chalk capitals on a tarmac/asphalt road covered in autumnal leaves.

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Is dystopia the new normal? Things were already bad. You were already more tired than usual before the break. Maybe you'd just started getting your head around how to keep going in a pandemic, even if you didn't like it much. The readers of this newsletter … [Read more...] about Are things getting worse? Or is dystopia the new normal?

Filed Under: Developing a Practice, Planning, Self-care Tagged With: boundaries, burnout, dystopian times, energy, Juggling, movement, priorities, rest, saying no, self-care, sleep, stretch, yoga

Are you dropping the “eating well” ball?

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Jo VanEvery 9 Comments

A tightly packed wooden bowl of mixed chopped veg and meat is on a wooden tray with a little wooden spoon ready to eat, fuel and nourish the consumer.

During my planning classes I have participants note which juggling balls typically get dropped for them during term time. When I asked how many people noticed that they ate less well or didn’t sleep enough several people on the call responded affirmatively. Good nutrition is a foundational … [Read more...] about Are you dropping the “eating well” ball?

Filed Under: Developing a Practice, Planning, Self-care Tagged With: balance, control, decision fatigue, decision making, decisions, effort, expectations, food, habits, health, meals, mental health, planning, plans, preparation, responsibility, rest, self-care, taking responsibility

Email overwhelm as a collective problem

Posted on November 6, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

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Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Email Overwhelm as a Collective Problem This post was prompted by the renowned classicist, Mary Beard, stoking up the embers of email stress recently over on Twitter. https://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/1321555620105986049?s=20 However, this post isn't … [Read more...] about Email overwhelm as a collective problem

Filed Under: Academic Context, Administrivia, Developing a Practice, Planning, Self-care, Self-confidence Tagged With: autonomy, boundaries, communication, email, perfectionism, priorities, procrastination, saying no

Asynchronous teaching and setting boundaries

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

An empty lecture theatre on a university campus, while campus is closed. A change of working routine and adjusting to new boundaries is implied in the use of this image with the post.

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Asynchronous teaching and setting boundaries I've noticed in various conversations on Twitter that there are some issues with setting boundaries in the context of pandemic teaching conditions. In this post I address a particular issue with asynchronous … [Read more...] about Asynchronous teaching and setting boundaries

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Planning, Teaching Tagged With: audio, audio version available, boundaries, COVID19, email, support, teaching

Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars: making reasonable plans

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

Night-time camping scene with a dark blue sky full of stars and the only light coming from an orange tent to the left. A lone silhouetted star-gazer looks up to the stars with a bright headtorch beaming towards the sky. A glowing campfire is on the right.

 Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars I’ve written before about juggling as a metaphor for planning out your workload. Consider all of the things you want and need to do, at work and outside of work, as the box of things a juggler could be … [Read more...] about Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars: making reasonable plans

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Career Planning, Developing a Practice, Finding Your Way, Planning, Research, Self-confidence Tagged With: audio, audio version available, autonomy, boundaries, goals, perfectionism, priorities, rest, saying no, vision, writing

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