This post contains templates for improving and/or reviewing academic productivity.
Category: College Success
The One-Minute Pitch
The One-Minute Pitch is about storytelling, to use stories to communicate your skills, values, and mindset to a potential employer. This blog explains how to construct the One-Minute Pitch.
Managing Time – The 168 Hours Experiment
Did you know that there were 168 hours in a week? I didn’t until I read Laura Vanderkam’s book ‘168 Hours.’ That doesn’t sound like a lot does it?! But Vanderkam points out that it […]
How to Focus at Work and Avoid Distractions – The Conscious Choice Method™
In this post, I share one of the most effective time management strategies that I have designed using the 168 hours experiment,modified from that designed by Laura Vanderkam. Read on if you’d like to learn how to increase focus and improve productivity at work.
7 Tips for College Success (Specially helpful tips for incoming college freshmen)
Wondering what to do in college to hit it out of the park from the get go? In other words, what are the characteristics of successful students? This post discusses some very simple and practical […]
Tips for College Success: How to Improve Study and Work Habits (or Any Habit, Really!)
Does it take 21 days to form a habit? Can you build or break a habit in 66 days? Are these popular notions of habit-building accurate? The short answer is…. It depends. In an article […]
The Productive PhD Ninja Blog 