Today I’ve had an ‘off’ day at work in that i didn’t get much done, mainly due to lack of motivation and distraction on my part. This is not a good thing to continue so I have to make strategies to prevent it. Besides that I feel pretty neutral about it. Yeah, off days happen and not getting work done is a bad thing and it’s my fault, but my feelings seem more aligned with ‘how can i fix it?’ than with ‘this is terrible, I’m a bad person’. No I’m not a bad person. I didn’t go well at work today. Why?
- I didn’t decide early in the day what I was planning on doing today
- Helen’s not in and the office is pretty quiet, making it easier to be distracted
- No particular urgent tasks or deadlines (less motivating)
- distraction - reading articles from the web
How I plan to help:
- Use my to-do list to get an overview of the goals and projects I’m involved in
- Chunk projects into parts and develop a time frame for them
- Investigate if I can schedule reviews of progress and time-frames with Helen and/or Nick (since he’ll be supervising my uni project next year)
- Use the timer when on the web to help keep on task
- Use my daily calendar to work out ideas of what to do each day, what I'm going to work on
- possibly a daily goal like ‘Checking this subset of data’ or ‘this regression analysis’ or ‘ten paragraphs of the paper’ or something like that.
These all seem pretty doable and good.
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