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Be kind to others and to yourself. Do what you can do. Make small daily goals. Be realistic. Celebrate every victory. \u00a0Don\u2019t be hard on yourself. These are extraordinary times.<\/em>\u00a0These are the messages that I and a lot of others have been spreading during lockdown.<\/p>\n

And I stand by those sentiments. However, seven weeks in and I have some looming deadlines. They aren\u2019t yet of the everything-due-tomorrow kind. But I can\u2019t put them off. I can see that I need to take myself in hand. Regardless of whether I feel up to it or not, I am now at the stage where I have to make more progress than I have been.<\/p>\n

I am sure I am not the only one in this position. Most academic staff are still working to meet funding and publishing deadlines, as well as to support students to meet their course timelines, not all of which have been modified. While some of our work can be put off, some can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

For this first time since lockdown, this week I summoned up the courage to look at my own deadlines. And made a list.\u00a0The list is when it gets serious. When you\u2019ve written down what needs to be done and put all-the-things onto a calendar, it really just gets real.<\/p>\n

So it turns out that I have some writing to do for my own annual review process. I\u2019m involved in five research funding bids, one of which I\u2019m leading on. These bids are all due before the end of the month. ( Side note, yes I\u2019m not expecting to get all of them, you never do, but innit to winnit. One or two of them would be good.) I have several reviews to do \u2013 two book proposals, four research council bids and three journal articles. And a bit of editing work along the way.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all. There\u2019s two new papers to be done by the end of May plus a new post-pandemic prologue for the book I thought I\u2019d done with. There\u2019s also a book due at the end of June.<\/p>\n

While some of this is begun, and it\u2019s by no means all my own work, there\u2019s still a lot to do. I certainly don\u2019t want to let my colleagues down. I can see that there is now little choice but to be less kind to myself and there\u2019s much more need to summon up whatever willpower I can and just crack on. I can\u2019t afford to be envious of those people who seem to be able to see the current situation as an extended writing retreat. That\u2019s not me, but I somehow need to make things head a little more in that direction.<\/p>\n

Some PhDers may well find themselves in a similar situation. While some doc researchers in their final stages have been given extensions by their funder and\/or their universities, not everyone has. Some people are still writing towards a fixed end point. And while there has been a relaxation of some timelines other fixed dates, often those concerned with audit, remain. And it appears that some universities and faculties are less inclined\u00a0than others to\u00a0be flexible about extensions. I\u2019ve heard a few horror stories recently so I do know that a few institutions are very rule-bound and punitive.<\/p>\n

If, like me, you are now in the situation where you have to get more productive or get into trouble, then I\/you need to summon up and use all of the tricks that have worked for us in the past.<\/p>\n

Meeting the deadlines certainly isn\u2019t stopping exercising and taking breaks in order to get things done.\u00a0But it might be using timed free writing periods to generate a lot of words. It might be working back from deadlines to set a target for each day, allowing just a little time for slippage and catch up. It might be getting back into an old routine \u2013 morning writing for me, but it might be night-time or afternoon time for you. It might mean joining an online writing retreat or Shut Up and Write sessions. It might mean giving yourself rewards when you meet a daily\/project\/wordcount\/time milestone.<\/p>\n

But it also might mean having some serious negotiations with other family members. It might be saying no to any new requests from now on. It might be refusing to wait till the last moment, and asking for an extension now.<\/p>\n

And there are less attractive options too. Hard decisions. Because of things out of your control. You might have to put some things on hold \u2013 the PhD itself, a funding bid. You might need to stop some things altogether and just cross them permanently off the list.<\/p>\n

But. But it is still important \u2013 whether I\/you are putting the pressure on to get things completed, or giving some things up \u2013 that we are still kind to ourselves. I think some new things needed to be added to the messages I started with.<\/p>\n

Even if I have to stop doing this now, I\u2019ve done really well in extraordinary circumstances. Even if I didn\u2019t do this quite as well as I wanted to, I got it done. Done is miles better than undone. How amazing am I that I managed to get this far in not normal times. If I can meet this deadline now, then just think what I can do when things change for the better.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll certainly be saying these things to myself in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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