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		<title>New timewasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just this week, I held a &#8220;summer mini-course&#8221; for incoming students where we went over the basics of Time Management, Reading, Note-taking, Memory and Concentration. (For any new students from our university looking to sign up for the next round in late August, you can do so here.) I asked students what their favourite timewasters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=46&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cure for procrastination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What, did you think I&#8217;d have a magic answer? No, as far as I can tell, the only cure for procrastination is still plain old action.  But one of the things you need to think about before you can come up with ways to take action is that we all have different reasons for procrastinating. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=45&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking tips from one of the greats&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; ladies and gentlemen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and three lessons for productivity. CG<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=44&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Favourite Time Savers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[daydreaming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I got a little feedback from that five favourite timewaster&#8217;s post. Basically it went like this: okay smart guy, anyone can list what makes them waste time. What do you do that actually works? Or do you just sit around all day trying to think of what to put up on the blog? (Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=41&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can poetry be productive procrastination?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[haiku]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An haiku.   CG<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=38&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five favourite time-wasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the exercises we sometimes use in workshops is to identify your favourite time-wasters. So, in the interests of participant observation, here are mine, in no particular order: 1. TV &#8211; I know, it&#8217;s so uncool, and sometimes it&#8217;s just me channel-surfing, but as a time-waster, it&#8217;s still the king. 2. YouTube &#8211; It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=33&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whittle down that list!</title>
		<link>http://learningskills.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/whittle-down-that-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To-do lists can be a lifesaver, but the problem is that there&#8217;s always something else to do. So you keep adding to it. And adding. And the next thing you know, no matter how hard you work, no matter how many things you cross off the list, it just seems to get longer and longer. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=31&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter author on the F-word</title>
		<link>http://learningskills.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/harry-potter-author-on-the-f-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>learningskills</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Procrastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procrastination:Fear & Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, not that f-word: &#8220;Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=24&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Minutes A Day or Some Other Way?</title>
		<link>http://learningskills.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/15-minutes-a-day-or-some-other-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Procrastination and Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procrastination: Grad School]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thesis Writing Strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great recommendation on the “Phinished” website to try rotating ways of working.  15 minutes a day is great for a while. Then it’s often helpful to switch to, say, a goal of 2 pages a day for a while, and so on.  See “Erika’s post”: &#8220;The 40 minute system and research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=23&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Minutes, Part II</title>
		<link>http://learningskills.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/15-minutes-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and for those doctoral students out there, you might be interested in the fabulous book, Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker. CG<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=learningskills.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3774181&amp;post=20&amp;subd=learningskills&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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