by Cathy Mazak | Jun 24, 2019 | academic project management
How do you feel when you get to work in the morning? When you look at your to-do list, do you feel completely overwhelmed? Have you ever felt the beginnings of a panic attack when you think about the amount of stuff you have to do? For most of us, the answer is “yes.”...
by Cathy Mazak | Apr 25, 2019 | academic writing, mindset, publishing, time management
Are you making these three writing mistakes? Academic women are a diverse and electrifying group. I truly get so much energy from interacting with you all, both in and out of my own field of study. But the more academic women I get to know, the more I realize that...
by Cathy Mazak | Apr 18, 2019 | academic writing, mindset, publishing, time management
As you close your laptop on turning in grades, set up your email auto-responder so that students know you are unreachable and dream about all those projects that you’re going to finish over the break, it might be time for a little reality check. Let me guess: you have...
by Cathy Mazak | Apr 11, 2019 | academic project management
There are some things that really get on my nerves about academia. One of them is the assumption that we should all know how to do the job. I mean, we have Ph.D.s, right? How on earth does the process of getting a Ph.D. prepare you for managing #allthethings, getting...
by Cathy Mazak | Apr 2, 2019 | academic writing, time management
I asked academic women joining my I Should Be Writing! Facebook group: “What’s the biggest obstacle between you and writing more?” Here’s what you all said: “Time!” “Time management and my teaching load at a teaching intensive university” “Time and motivation”...
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