Head Space

Calm productivity for academics

Tag: routines

  • Use research projects to build academic skills

    Design small research projects, structured around the features of deliberate practice, to help build academic skills.

  • Set up your environment to make it harder to work from home

    What would you do if you couldn’t work from home? One of the biggest benefits of being an academic is that you can work anywhere, any time. And one of the biggest problems with being an academic, is that you end up working everywhere, all the time. But imagine getting home in the evening and…

  • Strategy drives outcomes

    If you want your productivity output to change, then your habits, routines, and workflow need to change. Strategy drives outcomes.

  • Sustainable academic productivity

    Sustainable academic productivity isn’t about working harder, but creating effortless systems. Rather than pushing yourself to exhaustion, learn how to build low-effort habits and routines that maintain productivity even on low-energy days. Transform your workflow by focusing on small, incremental steps that lead to lasting success.

  • Use small routines to build good habits

    Building good habits when you’re short on time means that you reduce the scope of what you want to do, but stick to the schedule. James Clear (2018). Atomic Habits. Building a habit means that you integrate the activity into your daily routine, even if you can’t do the activity at the scale you’d like.…