Hi tractorgirl!! thanks for the messages you always make me feel so much better, I really appreciate your continuous support!! you are a star!

you are so right about realistic aims, and have a good relaxing weekend, i have a friend staying over at the weekend, so will do some work, and go out tommorow with her for abit as a break.

i think we should take it easy at the weekend, and then start afresh again on monday!! and lol at you not knowing where your week went either. i think the fairies took our week!!

here's to a productive week starting monday!! with the main goal, setting REALISTIC aims. the theme for next week will be to set realistic aims.

i hope you have a nice relaxing day off tommorow Tractorgirl, you totally deserve it !!

and good luck with job applications, and yes every interview is good experience, a rehearsal.

see you on monday

hurrah! finished aim 1. took the whole day! but i am glad it's done


i have a friend staying with me, and another coming for dinner later on tonight, so i think i will take the evening off now.

i will most probably do aim 2 tommorow morning.

have a good evening folks!

Hello everyone. Well I was up trying to be productive today but already had computer disasters and then my puppy decided to forget that he was house trained so Ive been cleaning up after him. The fun. Anyway aims for today are
1. Finially finish brazil book
2. write up notes on brazil

All the best with the aims today

hi celesmai, yeh i've been up since 9am, but just been cleaning the kitchen and phaffing around! i thought i would put in my aims to kick start me. i might have some breakie in abit though, feeling hungry.

aww you have a puppy, how cute. what breed is it?

my aims for today:
chapter 5 (sort out and complete result analysis)

1. pairwise comparison (figure out how to do it)
2. r cluster analysis: meth data
3. maximum parsimony analysis: meth data
4. r cluster of m/s data
5. maximum parsimony analysis of m/s data
6. compare meth and m/s data

i have a meeting with my 2nd supervisor on thursday. i am feeling very nervous about it. but am preparing myself for her to say my thesis is complete crap and needs ALOT of work. which i already know. i am thinking to myself that i only have 3 weeks left till sept 1st, so will try to complete it as much as i can, so than i have a few weeks to tidy up loose ends etc. Alot can be done in 3 weeks. just need to pace ourselves, and not overwork ourselves, because it's a marathon not a sprint. so regular breaks are essential, so we don't feel frustrated and tired.

i once read a quote something on the lines of, it's not the problems or the nature of the difficulty or adversary that matter, but how we respond to it...

TG i hope you had a relaxing weekend! I did too. I was feeling very tired, so took the day off on saturday, and then did a tiny bit on sunday (my friend showed me how to do a chi squared test using this free programe).

right it's monday, so away we go!

Hi,

I wrote a hugh message which for some reason has not sent!!!! Anyway i will try again later, but just to check in! Hope everyone is ok,
aims for today, chapter 1!!!

PS Message to follow.......

"The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

http://www.quotegarden.com/perseverance.html

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately I haven't been able to finish that chapter 2, but I did make some progress over the weekend and yesterday. I have two small sections to go and the wrap up. So my aim for the day is to finish it and hand it in to my supervisor for comments.

Good luck with your own writing

Hi everyone hows it going today? This new layout is strange!! Well last weeks aims are still going! This exhaustion is not good. But at least yesterday aim 1 was finished so aim 2 - typing up the notes is todays aim!! And washing lots of baby clothes!!!

WOW nice quote. thanks Olivia! :-)



and OMG!!! the layout, I was away from the PG forum for one day, and its all changed. i like the word count feature and the quote feature, although the colours and layout will take some getting used to it. but me likes. but yah it's very strange!!!

My general aims for today are to work on the results section of chapter 3, 4, and 5. i have a meeting with my 2nd supervisor tommorow, I am really nervous about that. as i feel like i haven't accomplished much this past month! and i dont know where the time flies..

i am not going to put down a list of aims, as i never ever meet them, so just putting a general aim to get as much done today. (up)

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http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/0910/
you_can_write_your_thesis_without_writing_lists/

copy it all together. i had to put in a gap otherwise didnt get posted in full.

nice little article about how if you're not the type of person that doesn't make lists and think linerarly, there is still hope you can finish your thesis!

Hi everyone,

How are things? I hope that people are making progress. It turns out that I did finish chapter 2 and handed it to my supervisor (up). I think it only happened because they cancelled football last night for lack of quorum, and I stayed in the office until I finished. Anyway you can not have it all :p

So, for today:

I'm going to bring chapter 3 out of hibernation,
figure out what's left to do in it,
put together notes and papers that need to go in,
and work out a plan to finish it this week.

Lara, thanks for that article and good luck in you meeting.
Celesmai, good luck with the notes and the baby clothes, just do not kill you self trying to stay on top of that (the baby, that is), it's impossible, I know
;-)

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You're welcome armendaf :) and well done on achieving your goal, that is great!

I just watched this amazing and inspiring lecture by Randy Pausch about time management. It's so tragic, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told he would only have 3-6 months of good health left, but still kept his humour and didn't complain. He sadly died in July of this year. He was full of life, and so productive with his time.

His main take home message is that TIME is valuable more so than money, because you can never get time back.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758

Miss Spacey gave me the link to the lecture. Thanks !!

it is well worth watching it, but watch it at the end of the day, when you are "free" i dont want it to disturb your productivity. but it is inspiring, and well worth it.

take home messages i took from the lecture:

have a time journal, where every 15-30minutes you log in what you actually did. so you can keep track where your time goes.
create artificial deadlines.
break everything down into smaller steps.
file everything away.
have a plan, even though later on you will change it, but start with a rough plan to begin with.

quotes:
""We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand...
* "How do you get people to help you? By telling the truth.
* "Apologise when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
* "Show gratitude.
* "Don't complain. Just work harder
"Find the best in everybody. You might have to wait a long time, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting, it will come out. And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity."