The most important time-management habit (do this every day)
Do you ever find yourself sitting down at your computer but not knowing where to start?
If so, it's very easy to end up on autopilot, checking email and so on, letting your attention follow whatever pops up. Once you're in that loop, it can be quite difficult to get out again.
Your final PhD year: moving towards submission
The final year of your PhD is all about pushing towards submission of your thesis. In order to reach that point, you need to go through a process of consolidating and finalising the various aspects of your work.
Self-reliability
If you set goals for yourself but you don’t achieve them, you might think about how to improve your productivity, your time management or your motivation, but you’ll probably find that this doesn’t work because there are more fundamental skills you need to work on first.
One of those skills is self-reliability…