An early start yesterday followed by a late night spelled disaster for my Wednesday morning. Despite my apparent failure to get into work early any morning this week, I do want to make clear that I still make it to school at a typical and reasonable start time (I just want to make sure I haven't turned away any readers with the appearance of sloth).
This week's experiment was to add extra time into my work day by getting into the lab an hour or so before my established start to the day. I did mention in my Sunday post that I am a night owl and after a couple days I have been thinking maybe it's just time to work later. While the plan is to tweak a couple more hours from the day this is also an opportunity to train myself into a new habit, which is ultimately a major goal of this blog. Along with nightly reflections on my progress towards submitting a thesis I also hope to identify what traits, habits and skill I can hone to become more productive overall. For the most part what makes a good PhD student also makes a good researcher, engineer, scientist or other professional worker. With that in mind, I still want to try for early mornings this week to see the challenge through.
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