[ SECRET POST #3997 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3997 ⌋

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[Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2]


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[Neil Gaiman, Good Omens]


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[Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan / I, Tonya]


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Comments

Stress

[(Anonymous)]

So, I have to complete my thesis by June. Which is a lot of time, I suppose, but just looking at the breakdown of tasks and months available makes has me full of panic, full of doubt, I want to run in circles, scream and shout. A few months ago, I tried to distract myself from the main horror of IMPENDING DEADLINE OMG with smaller projects, but this has lead to OTHER horrors (I have to present at a conference soon! I've scheduled two job interviews!) instead of less overall horror.

...... stress reduction tips? time management tips? ..... .... beuler?

Re: Stress

[(Anonymous)]

Make a list of everything you need to do. Organize it by importance and when due. Break down the really important stuff into smaller parts. Create deadlines. Get rid of distractions. Make a reward system to make your work less horrible.

Re: Stress

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you :)

Re: Stress

[(Anonymous)]

This is going to echo what the other anon said, but: at least for me, the biggest thing that creates anxiety is letting a project exist as this sort of massive, formless, structureless terror that all you can do is avoid. It leads directly to catastrophizing and anxiety. The best way to approach it - like anything else - is to define the project, to understand all the parts of what you need to do, to break the whole thing down into discrete tasks, and then to start working on it. Nothing is better - for me at least - than understanding that actually the project isn't some kind of nameless terror, it's a task that I know how to do, and then making actual headway on it and starting to knock it on the head and tear bloody chunks out of it.

Re: Stress

[(Anonymous)]

and thank you, too :)

It's good to know that other people feel the same way and have similar strategies for dealing with things like this. It's just really overwhelming sometimes, and the culture at the department is all pretty much "pretend all your work just appears with no effort" so it's hard to find people to talk to.

Re: Stress

[(Anonymous)]

THIS. I get the same way about big projects. They just seem so intimidating and hopeless that I end up psyching myself out before I've even begun. I depend upon lists not just for organization, but to define what I need to do so it's less scary and more approachable.

Re: Stress

[(Anonymous)]

make it part of your daily routine and have someone hold you accountable starting out. working in a location just for work like a library helps me.

Re: Stress

[(Anonymous)]

When it comes to the actual writing, maybe you have your own system, but personally I find it helpful to start (and continue) wherever I feel most ready and enthusiastic about saying something, even if it's just a random paragraph in the middle of a section. Maybe it's because I've been rolling around my thoughts on that one part recently, or maybe I just had a discussion with someone about that part. Whatever the case, I go for the low-hanging fruit first, i.e. the parts where I feel most eager to say something. Whenever I get bored with what I'm writing, I jump to another part of the project. That way, I'm never sitting in front of a computer, staring at the screen, because I'm supposed to be writing a particular thing first and I can't figure out what to say.