planning

Do less, achieve more

Are you getting more and more busy? Do less! That’s the advice of Laura Stack, author of ‘What to do when there’s too much to do’.  If you put in overtime as a rule – as a lot of academics do – whilst you are already busy, you are on the…

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Spring cleaning in your head

Does this happen to you as well? That you have so much on your mind that you get lost. That you feel like you can’t focus anymore? Then it is time for a spring clean! Not only the physical one, but also in your head. A research from 2008, published in…

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How to not get lost in your text

For a lot of PhD students, it is difficult to keep an overview of all the texts they are writing for their thesis or articles. You have many different versions of your text, comments, in-between versions, draft versions, documents with notes and remarks, summaries, references… In short: enough to get…

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planning

How to become more effective

Your daily schedule has a big influence on your productivity and effectiveness. Probably this isn’t new for you. And the interesting question is of course how to plan your day in such a way that you are as effective as possible and don’t get stressed out. Especially after the holidays,…

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writing

The secrets of revising

Good writers make sure they divide their writing into different phases, because of efficiency and effectiveness. Without going into all the different phases of the writing process (I will do that in another blog article, or if you can read Dutch, you will find information about that here), you might…

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