Good luck with the motivation, MissPiggy! I quite often have days when the work piles up and I struggle to even get started. But my supervisor says so much of a PhD is about the psychology to get yourself through the work, so I'm trying to work on my motivation and trying not to let myself get paralysed by guilt at what I haven't yet achieved.

Anyway, I had a long lie-in this morning because I was absolutely exhausted, so I'm only just sitting down to work now. Feel refreshed though. Today I am going to make progress on my data analysis - I have a plan for the analysis, so it's just a case of starting at the top of my list of tests to run and seeing how far I get.

Good luck with the work everyone!

Good to see you around, Sneaks.

All my goals are achieved for the day so I feel very happy and like I've earned the beer I'm going to have when I meet up with a friend tonight. Beer on a school night! Whatever next...

Hi Skig, good to see someone using this thread again!

Just had a supervision meeting where my main supervisor moved the goalposts yet again - why do they do that?! And they told me to take 2 weeks off at Christmas but now want me to give them 2 chapters to read on 10 January - not entirely sure how I'll manage to write those and also take the time off! Oh well, I do need to knuckle down!

Goals for today:
1.) Write up notes from supervision meeting and email to supervisors
2.) Finish poster design and submit to conference organiser
3.) Spend remaining time going through journal alerts

I'm INTJ too. And yes, some of the description is just so spot-on! But that gives me some confidence that maybe I have found my natural home in academia!

Good luck with it, Skig. Have you got a date for the viva?

Today I slept in, I've got a cold and it's getting worse so I'm going to give myself an easy day. I have a poster to design, and there are some admin-type jobs I need to do, and then I'll start my weekend early and hope I feel better by Monday!

Hello everyone, if anyone else is around!

Today I'm working on describing my sample, and thinking about the tests I need to run to test the effects of various demographics in my data. That's the plan, anyway. I may lose the will to live at some point though, and when I do I'll go back to designing my poster!

Yay, finished my first two goals, and while working on my data analysis plan I had a blinding revelation about a section I'd missed out which I really need to start on first, so now I'm all enthusiastic about how I will go about that tomorrow.

For the rest of today, though, I'm going to work on my poster design. A nice end-of-day job.

Good luck everyone!

Oh cool. I considered going to my local public sector demonstration today, but I have a bad cold (lost my voice almost completely) so I think staying in in the warm will do me more good!

Good luck with finishing the draft off!

Is nobody else around at the moment? Oh well, I'll keep talking to myself!

Today, I intend to
1.) Update my work plan for the year, as suggested by my supervisor
2.) Finish my data analysis plan
3.) Design poster for upcoming conference

Had a useful meeting with one of my supervisors this morning, and am ready to get back on track with the work now. He doesn't seem concerned about me dropping behind schedule, though he also seems to think I can write up my thesis in three months flat, as if!! Anyway, I can get on with things now so feel okay about it all!

I have a meeting this afternoon so won't get much else done. But, goals for today:
1.) Finish writing up notes from meeting and email to supervisors
2.) Sort booking and payment for training course accommodation and travel
3.) Spend whatever time is left going through journal alerts and downloading interesting articles

No, I have no access either, sorry.

I can get it. Send me your email in a personal message and I'll forward it to you.

Done. Good luck with the study!

Heh, sorry MissPiggy, been trying not to get distracted by internet. Not that I achieved a huge amount anyway (hence only being about to finish for the day now!) I really do need to stop my procrastinating. Will work on that tomorrow!

I didn't exactly achieve my goals, because I realised there was something more pressing to work on which would make the goals more worthwhile once it was done. So I have made some progress at least. Meeting supervisor in the morning - dreading it really, I know he'll be very nice but the fact is I am falling behind. Oh well, I'll get there. And what's the worst that could happen - overrunning the three years a little? Financially problematic but not the end of the world if it happens!

Morning everyone.

MissPiggy - I so totally relate to feeling like I'm a million miles from achieving everything I need to. It's getting a little paralysing when I look at how muhc there is to do - forcing myself to focus on the small steps and keep chipping away at it!

I was in hospital last Monday, all fine now but it's taken me a few days to recover so I haven't even thought about the PhD since then. I'm a little scared by how much I need to get done and how far behind schedule I now am. So, time to set some sensible and realistic goals!

Today's goals:
1.) Write up the hypotheses that have already come out of my initial data analysis
2.) Brainstorm the other hypotheses/areas I know I need to test
3.) Make further progress on analysis of frequencies/descriptive stats (finishing it would be great but possibly too much for today)