What if you only worked 2 hours a day?
You don’t need to work the number of hours everyone else is doing or telling you to do. You need to work the hours that will work for you.
why I’m an ‘irresponsible’ coach
It would be irresponsible for me NOT TO coach the way I do. Here’s exactly how I do coach – and why.
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That time I literally couldn’t even shit in peace
A story about trying to shit in peace, throwing out expectations and setting down some stern boundaries.
What to do when things go wrong in your research
I promise – when things go wrong in your research, it’s NOT the end of the world. In fact, it could just be the very thing to make your research BETTER. Here’s how.
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You ≠ your fuck-ups
Instead of letting perfection define how you move, how can you get CURIOUS about it and let it move you forward?
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Why I keep telling you to do nothing
Here’s why I’m always trying to get you further and further away from the things we’ve been told to do our whole lives (hustle! grind! accomplish! progress!)
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Did you get everything done this week?
Just because everyone else is driving themselves hard, it doesn’t make it more okay for us to beat up harder on ourselves. It’s the opposite: it’s realising that it’s totally, forgivingly okay that we don’t do everything we set out to do.
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Sometimes, everything goes tits up…
if you’re looking for a sign, this blog post is your permission slip to treat yourself kindly. Take a break. Pause. Go slower. Give yourself what you need.
You’re making more progress in your PhD than you realise
The one thing that is fucking up your head and your own bloody brilliant, amazing, productive, successful progress is this default setting that all our tricksy brains have that insists on comparing.
“I’m a shy person and I don’t like talking to strangers”
You might understand how deeply uncomfortable it can feel to be catapulted into spaces where you feel you have to be ‘on display’ or ‘performing’ a personality that just doesn’t feel good. BUT… how about if we just didn’t respond to those bullshit confidence imperatives?