hi folk
any help how to do time mamangemt regard your phd project ..meaninh how can youget your way till you finish your thesis written.. when you work alone not get help, you dont know how many how you should expend in your work lab and read ( how many articles you spend per week..ect ..i fell lost in my work ..dnt know how to organose my work and enjoy any help how to do time management
regard your phd project ..meaning how can you get your way till you finish your
thesis written.. when you work alone not get help, you don't know how many how
you should expend in your work lab and read ( how many articles you spend per
week. ect ..i fell lost in my work ..dnt know how to organise my work and enjoy
me self ..need help really frustration.
:-x

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Hi Deb,

One practice I find really helpful is to treat my PhD like a job. I come into university Monday to Friday and work 8 am to 5 pm.
This ensures that I work every day on the PhD and do not get distracted doing things at home.
My university has as a guide of 150 hours per month on the PhD. this works out as a 40 hour week with 7 weeks holiday per year.

If I am finding it hard to work then I set myself half hour challenges: write notes on project for half an hour, or read some papers for half an hour.

There is no rule on how many papers you should read or how much time you should spend in the lab, but I always have at least one day per week where I do 'lab things' and often Friday afternoon (when I feel sleepy and lazy) I do a literature search. I print off any interesting papers I find to read over the weekend.

It can really help to break your work down into small chunks:
For example: Today I will write for an hour on my thesis introduction.
Or: Today I will spend the afternoon sorting out my data and making some graphs that show my results.

Sometimes it is hard to manage time because we see the PhD thesis as a huge lump of work, rather than lots of little chunks of time. Do a little bit at a time. Vary your work so you are working on different things throughout the day.
Even if only writing up you can work on different chapters, or work on images and graphs to get the variety that will help you to keep working hard.