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When I trained my own Ph.D. students, I always urged them to create a 5-year plan. Some did it as a list, and some as a grid. Either way, the plan laid out a month-by-month schedule of plans and goals and deadlines for the next five years.

Why You Need a 5-Year Plan

Collaborate with Colleagues Using Google+ with Extras

This past summer I wrote about staying connected with family using video chat software .

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25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer

When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview , Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” T oday, writing well is more important than ever.

http://lifehacker.com/270404/how-to-make-your-to+do-list-doable

The art of the doable to-do list

There's no better feeling than checking something off your to-do list. Done! Finished!

Writers' Boot Camp: Tip Roundup Edition

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The Rule of 200 - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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The Writing Date - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Write or Die by Dr Wicked

7 Mindfulness Tips to Energize Your Writing

29 Steps, 1078 Hours - Destination Dissertation

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We're big fans of making the dissertation into a series of small, concrete steps. That way, the dissertation seems doable, and you always know exactly what you have to do on it.

How to study a book before you have it | TheUniversityBlog

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The wait for a crucial book to become available in the library is frustrating.

The Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps

Stever Robbins , aka the Get-It-Done Guy , is the creator of a series of popular productivity podcasts, the host of productive "action days" for his online community, and now the author of a new book Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More . One of Robbins's distinctive qualities as a productivity expert is his engaging sense of humor and straightforward approach to solving problems. Rather than fill his pages with lengthy theories or case studies about why we procrastinate or fail to set clear goals, Robbins assumes that as human beings we are all prone to make similar kinds of mistakes, and quickly moves on to offering solutions.

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