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Identify Your Five Weekly Wins Every Week – TUB-Thump 020

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Do you feel overwhelmed with the number of tasks on your list each week?

Do you struggle to work out what the most important issue is in each area of your life?

On today’s TUB-Thump, I talk about finding five weekly go-to points so you can easily identify your big wins.

Whether it’s the academic, the social, the personal, the career, or anything else, you can target what’s important to you, each and every week.

Ready to dive in?

Here are the show notes for the 7-min episode:

  • 01:10 – One academic win. The most important focus-point for each week. Sure, there’s plenty of work to be done, but this will ground you. Sometimes that’s all you need to stop procrastinating on the thing that’s actually so crucial to your academic week.
  • 01:50 – One social woo. If you can’t fit any other fun in your schedule, make sure you have at least one event to look forward to.
  • 02:40 – One personal upgrade. Around the home, to do with a hobby, improving a personal skill…When you specify a single area to make progress in, you commit to pushing further than the minimum expected of you. Go on, do it for yourself!
  • 03:20 – One career boost. No matter how big or small, with 52 weeks in the year, that’s 52 different steps in the right direction. Reach out to someone, write a blog post, do some job research…it all helps. And it doesn’t have to take up a lot of your time in the week.
  • 04:20 – One wonderful wildcard. What is important for you? Add this one thing to the mix each week. Be creative, be methodic, be however you wish to be with this wildcard. As with the other schedule pointers, this helps to ground you in scheduling actions each week, and can also help you develop habits.
  • 05:30 – This method also assists in avoiding overwhelm. Instead of a huge list of tasks, you have your five big wins for each week.

Music for TUB-Thump is Life, by Tobu, which is released under a Creative Commons license. Check out more of Tobu’s great sounds on Soundcloud, YouTube, and his official site.

TUB-Thump is part of the Learning Always Network.

Keep being awesome!

Make Unique Lecture Notes With Pen & Paper – TUB-Thump 019

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Happy New Year to you!

Now it’s around the time of return to the academic side of life, it’s time for another TUB-Thump.

And what better way to celebrate than to look at how to engage with your lecture notes?

Okay, there may be better ways…But hey, this’ll come in useful. Don’t sass me. 😉

Today’s episode tells you to forget the laptop and the tablet. Pen and paper notes rule.

Why? Because unique notes and personal viewpoints are better than getting it down verbatim.

Get the lowdown below.

Here are the show notes for the 5-min episode:

  • 00:40 – Why pen and paper rules compared to typing notes on a laptop/tablet/phone.
  • 01:30 – Why it’s better NOT to have every word of a lecture written down.
  • 02:30 – Episode 002 of TUB-Thump: Take Lecture Notes Using These Two Rules
  • 03:15 – Why is it so difficult to engage with the lecture content in your notes when you’ve not put your own take on things?

Music for TUB-Thump is Life, by Tobu, which is released under a Creative Commons license. Check out more of Tobu’s great sounds on Soundcloud, YouTube, and his official site.

TUB-Thump is part of the Learning Always Network.

Keep being awesome!

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5 Useful Things You Can Do During the Christmas Break – TUB-Thump 018

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It’s the final TUB-Thump of 2016.

That means you’ve either finished, or you’re just about to hit campus for the last time before the holidays.

Today’s episode looks at 5 things you can do over the break, so you can hit campus in 2017 with confidence.

No matter how crazy or quiet the next few weeks are set to be, let’s get set for what’s coming next.

Here are the show notes for the 10-min episode:

  • 01:50 – 1. Take Stock: Step back and think about where you are at the moment. (1st years 02:30, 2nd years 02:55, final years 03:25)
  • 04:20 – 2. Plan: What do you want to do over the rest of the year?
  • 05:10 – 3. Relax: University encapsulates everything. Instead of feeling the anti-climax of stepping away from everything, let now be a time to recharge. Get back in the New Year with a bang.
  • 06:30 – 4. Revise: Short bursts of work will bring you up to speed and help you feel more confident for your return.
  • 07:50 – 5. Tidy Up: You start university with loads of stuff. You collect more stuff. Now it’s time to work out what you *really* need.
  • 09:20 – TUB-Thump returns on Monday, January 9 2017. You know, so long as my computer doesn’t blow up again…!

Have a fantastic break. I hope your New Year celebration is full of the winningest win.

Music for TUB-Thump is Life, by Tobu, which is released under a Creative Commons license. Check out more of Tobu’s great sounds on Soundcloud, YouTube, and his official site.

TUB-Thump is part of the Learning Always Network.

Keep being awesome!

My Computer Blew Up – TUB-Thump 017

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The past week or so hasn’t been business as usual for me. Long story short, my computer went up in smoke and my schedule has looked rather different.

I recorded two episodes of TUB-Thump in catch-up mode (Episode 018 is coming up right after this one).

I had every intention of getting them published on Thursday, but fate had other plans for that too…

I have something called “two-step authentication” set up on some of my accounts, including my WordPress account. Yesterday, I just happened not to have my phone on me. As I logged in to WordPress to publish these, I wasn’t able to type in my extra code, which is texted to my phone!

Usually, you have some backup codes, but I didn’t have access to those either, because they were on the old, blown up computer.

Yes, I’ve backed up, but I didn’t have time to go through all the malarkey to find backup codes too.

So don’t mind me talking about the awesomeness of getting the show out on Thursday, when I’m another day late. These things happen. Bizarre events, but that’s how it played out.

The good news is, things are back up to speed now.

And because I was reminded of the need to back up and keep copies in case of disaster, that’s what this episode is all about.

If you want to read along, it’s from my past TUB piece, Press Save.

Episode 018 up in a moment too. Then we’re back up to speed. Yay!

Music for TUB-Thump is Life, by Tobu, which is released under a Creative Commons license. Check out more of Tobu’s great sounds on Soundcloud, YouTube, and his official site.

TUB-Thump is part of the Learning Always Network.

Keep being awesome!