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Author: Astrid Schmölzer

Time-blocking III – what to do with massive interruptions

Time-blocking part III – how to get into a new system Time-blocking is still one of the leading productivity hashtags out there – vlogs, blogs, books, coaches – everyone talks about time-blocking, amongst all the other strategies to establish functional routines. To repeat: Timeblocking or time blocking (also known as…

Time-blocking III – what to do with massive interruptions

Time-blocking part III – how to get into a new system Time-blocking is still one of the leading productivity hashtags out there – vlogs, blogs, books, coaches – everyone talks about time-blocking, amongst all the other strategies to establish functional routines. To repeat: Timeblocking or time blocking (also known as…

Time blocking II – the essentials to get you started

It seems like ages since I wrote my first part of this time-blocking series (it was back in May 2023). Initially, I wanted to do a follow-up post on my planning routine, but then I thought, no, I should start with the basics first, like how to use digital and…

Relaxed New Year’s Head Start for Academics

Welcome, 2025! So this is it: a new year, a new beginning, new resolutions, new goals, etc. Well, I guess your online feeds are full of that kind of content. In Academia, at least when you are located in the German-speaking parts, we face the last 3 to 6 weeks…

Academic New Year Blues- still the same unfinished tasks to do!?

Happy New Year, everyone! Wherever you are, I hope you came good into this 2023. May it be a healthy, successful and marvellous year for all of you! So… a new beginning. Well, that’s big. Every year just the same procedure, new year, new me, new tasks, new adventures –…

#AcWriMo2022 – Re-establishing a writing routine

This post is basically my academic writing walk of shame, because – really, guys, I am embarrassed to tell you this – but, okay… I must confess: I have a summer writing to-do-list, like every year. But this year, I am actually just crossing out the word “summer”and rename the…

Academic Writing III – What “writing” can be

What actions are meant by the term “academic writing”? Just the actual writing aka you hit the keyboard fiercely and the whole thing sounds like machine-gun fire? Or is it reading, lit review, crying over Citavi or Zotero not working or – and I know you all have been crying…

Weird habits for productive work – part II

Sarah started this chain of thought, when writing about her weird habits to start off a productive work session. You can read about it here. We all spent a long time in our homes now, being at our so-called homeoffice – and still, the pandemic goes on and our reality…

Academic Writing II – Training Dragons

We all know about its existence. We fear it. We are called to arms against all the odds never in our favor, when it comes to Peer Review and facing the comments of our reviewers. So, what is this all about? Some say it is sheer dumb legend, others tell…

How to… – Academic Writing I

I have to apologize, because I totally forgot to post this entry yesterday. I am on holiday right now and during the weekend I tried to relax and chill. I was really good at relaxing and chilling, I actually forgot about this blogpost and I was right half through my…

How to teach #coronastyle

This is going to be a short post and I shall give you a glimpse of my first feedback on my distance teaching. This semester, I am giving a course on epigraphy at the University at Innsbruck and one course on iconography of Roman provincial deities at the University of…

Distance learning/distance teaching AF

So, folks, I am recently with a new job and for more than a month I have been struggling with all the great insecurities caused by Corona. One of the big new things: distance learning. So, what is distance learning? Well, of course, distance means that you sit at your…

100 Days – Summary of a motivational experiment

So, I did it. I finished my challenge of 100 days of dissertation on Friday. I wrote about the idea for this challenge here in this post. You can see all my steps on my instagram account – I have to admit that there are not a lot of pics,…

How to believe in yourself – facing a job interview

You may have seen our recent posts and you may have noticed our emphasis on all the stuff of academia that can scare the hell out of us – failing, how to get a good job, how to prepare for it and so on. For example have a look at…

100 Days of Dissertation – a motivational experiment

Today I want to talk about motivation and the last long days of corrections, revisions and re-writing of your thesis or dissertation. When I first stumbled on the #100daysofdissertationchallenge on Instagram, I thought about it as a very good idea, but I could not quite stick to it. When I…

Saxa Loquuntur – How to understand the tales of stones

As I told you last week, I was on my way to Italy – and now, I am back here in Austria, sitting in my appartment, enjoyed a wunderful silent and easy Sunday without people and with a lot of reading and a lot of movies. And no, I did…