Recently I received an email from Joost and a Facebook message from Annette, both referred me to Tim Urban’s TEDTalk. He explains how the brain works of a person who procrastinates. Learn about monkeys and guardian angels and take your advantage! If the link doesn’t work, click here. Do you…
As you probably know, I run my own company. I love having my own business and I am very happy to be able to have one. It gives me the opportunity to do what I love most: help PhD students to finish their thesis successfully and in time. Unfortunately I…
A clear thinking process, it is not always easy. To make sure you take the right decisions and that you are critical towards your choices. Every day you have to make many decisions. Of course you can’t always take the perfect decision, however you can improve the chance of taking…
Writing is for most PhD students an issue. Maybe it is even the biggest obstacle and for many the main reason for delay. In my blogs you will find various tips about writing. Today I would like to show you an app that could help, it is questionable though if…
Communication is not always easy. Before you know it, there is confusion, misunderstanding of the other person’s reaction, frustration, in short: miscommunication. Some miscommunication now and then is not the end of the world, however too much of it might influence your relationships with the people surrounding you. Frequent miscommunication…
Power naps! For a long time I was convinced that a power nap is nonsense. Till I started to research the power nap a bit more. And I realised that a power nap is a sort of super efficient sleep, which has big results in a short time. And efficiency…
