{"id":28687,"date":"2019-12-24T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T03:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/?p=28687"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T03:54:45","slug":"strategies-for-busy-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/2019\/12\/24\/strategies-for-busy-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies for busy researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try out a few balance scales for yourself. Where would you place the following items on your balance scale?<br \/>\n\u25cfWork<br \/>\n\u25cf Home<br \/>\n\u25cf Administration<br \/>\n\u25cfWork you want to do<br \/>\n\u25cfWork you have to do<br \/>\n\u25cf Teaching<br \/>\n\u25cf Research<br \/>\n\u25cf Health<br \/>\n\u25cf Career progression<br \/>\n\u25cf External demands<br \/>\n\u25cf Me time<br \/>\n\u25cf Family\/friends<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some signs of imbalance:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 increased stress<br \/>\n\u2022 worry and frustration<br \/>\n\u2022 fatigue and health problems<br \/>\n\u2022 loss of interests and motivation<br \/>\n\u2022 isolation<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ten strategies for keeping your work in balance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Make a plan<\/li>\n<li>Pick the right things<\/li>\n<li>Make time for research<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to say NO<\/li>\n<li>Delegate<\/li>\n<li>Set realistic standards<\/li>\n<li>Write regularly (and then submit it!)<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t check your email first thing in the morning<\/li>\n<li>Use the 3 Ds of paperwork (and email)<\/li>\n<li>Deal with distractions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try out a few balance scales for yourself. Where would you place the following items on your balance scale? \u25cfWork \u25cf Home \u25cf Administration \u25cfWork you want to do \u25cfWork you have to do \u25cf Teaching \u25cf Research \u25cf Health \u25cf Career progression \u25cf External demands \u25cf Me time \u25cf Family\/friends &nbsp; Here are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28688,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28687\/revisions\/28688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/nurazaliah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}