Tag: calm productivity
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Head Space course discount during January
Head Space is offering a 25% discount on online courses this January, for new newsletter subscribers. The courses aim to provide health professions educators with practical strategies for establishing sustainable academic workflows.
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Head space visual refresh
Announcing an update to the Head Space project. A complete visual refresh, emphasising simplicity and focus.
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Academic productivity courses on sale
The Head space online courses will be on sale until the 31st of January. Sign up before then to get 25% off, and start 2024 with the gift of calm academic productivity. There are courses on: Each course explores the common challenges in these core areas of academic productivity, and describes the most effective strategies…
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Sale: Head space courses are 25% off until the end of January
Are you an academic who wants to work smarter, not harder? Do you want to improve your productivity, time management, and workflow without sacrificing your well-being and career goals? If so, you might be interested in the Head space online courses, designed for busy academics who want to get back to a sense of calm productivity.…
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Using Obsidian for academic writing and creativity
In this conversation with Dave Nicholls, I describe how I use Obsidian to support my academic writing and creative process, in response to Dave’s question: Is using Obsidian worth it? I explain how I’ve set up different vaults in Obsidian, depending on what it is that I’m trying to do, and use examples from my…
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Head space course on Calm Productivity
It’s been a while since I posted anything about the Calm Productivity course I created earlier this year, so I thought it’s time to give it another plug. The aim of the course is to provide a structure for busy academics to build new habits and routines around their workflow for a sustainable, high-impact academic…
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Calm Productivity course: Example lesson published
You may have noticed that I’ve mentioned a new online course I’ve been working on for a few months. The course is called Calm Productivity and I’ve created it in response to a growing concern about the frenetic pace of academic life, and the increased pressure on academics to keep doing more, with less. Don’t…
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Calm Productivity course goes live on 24 February
Over the past few months, I’ve been building an online course called Calm Productivity, as part of my Head space project. It’s taken way longer than I’d hoped it would, and required a lot more work than I’d anticipated. But I’m very happy with the outcome and can’t wait to release it in a couple…
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Using a weekly review to close open loops
In this video, I do a walk-through of the weekly review that I do every Friday afternoon. This weekly review is a sweep through my entire personal and professional life, where I try to wrap up everything that might cause me any worry after I leave work. My weekly review is basically a process of…
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Why publish-or-perish? Why not, publish-and-prosper?
It’s weird to think of some of the things we take for granted in higher education. Surely one of the worst is to be taken in by the publish-or-perish mindset; the idea that, unless you publish you have no future in academia. That you’ll be punished, or worse, that you’ll ‘perish’: To die or be destroyed, especially…
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Head space: Calm productivity for knowledge work
Head space is a programme for academics who want to establish new habits and routines aimed at cultivating a space for calm productivity. To escape the unproductive and frenetic activities that fill our days. And to create the head space we need to do the work we love. I’ve started A New Thing. It’s called Head space…