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Developing A New Practice: Getting Started

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Do you want to be an academic who writes regularly? In December, 2014, I decided that I wanted to be someone who practices yoga regularly. I’ve done enough yoga to know that it is good for me to do it regularly. I have a teacher locally that I really like. But I had fallen out […]

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The value of experiments

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

There are better and worse ways of doing things, but there is rarely One Right Way that works for everyone. Whatever it is that you want to do, you need to decide the best way for you. Researching your options can help narrow things down, but there comes a point when you need to experiment. […]

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Small steps yield big results

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

Whether it’s the New Academic Year or the New (Calendar) Year, you probably have some New Year’s Resolutions! It is tempting to set big goals. However, every big goal is achieved by a set of very small steps. Small steps are much less overwhelming than big changes. A post from Peter Shankman on Why Inspirational Quotes […]

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Are deadlines helping or hurting?

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt In a coaching session, a client mentioned how she’d missed a bunch of deadlines for a co-authored paper and needed to set new ones. I sensed that the whooshing noise was not comforting for her so […]

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Be careful how you use the term “binge writing”

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

Short writing periods regularly don’t work for everybody. @jovanevery thank god. Every time I see someone tweet that I think why doesn’t it work for me. I write 6 hours straight. Can’t do short. — M.M. (@ProfessMoravec) March 7, 2013 Or Tony’s comment on my Pomodoro technique post in which he indicated he liked 2 […]

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15 minutes a day

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

Where do you start in your quest to keep your research active during the fall and winter? Start small. Could you find 15-30 minutes every weekday to devote to research? I bet you could. That’s not a lot of time. Research has shown that even that small amount of time, used well, can make a […]

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