let's see if I can hit the ground running tomorrow...

[kareina]

In my meeting with my thesis supervisor the other day I commented that one of my problems is that I get really into what I am doing with my data processing, and then I stay up till 02:00 working on it, and then I make myself go to work on time the next morning, and then the next afternoon I am too tired for more data processing. She suggested a brilliant solution: Hit the Ground Running. A technique she says that psychologists teach writers as a way to overcome writer's block. Instead of continuing to work long enough to "just finish this part", take a few notes about what you are doing that is so interesting, and where you want to go, and put it down for the night. Then, the next day you will be excited to start again. My "do yoga, go to bed alarm" went off at 21:00. It took a little while thereafter to remember this good advice, but now I have taken those quick notes, and am ready to hop back in the middle of this sample tomorrow. Hopefully, this trick works!

Comments

[katerit]

That sounds like a good plan.

[fjorlief]

I like that idea

[beanolc]

Oooh, I like that plan. I hope it works!