Life of E's

See if this question sounds like something you might ask: I have decided that if I am going to keep doing my job (I work at a local college), I need to get some additional help – and it needs to be more than just a student worker who I have to train each semester. [...]

Tags: assistant, college, grant writing, Professors, teachers

College and graduate school wasn’t a place where you learned how to network, unless you had a really great advisor who helped mentor you in that way. Whether you learned it then or have never learned to network, start considering the “truths” in this article. See if they are true for you–and maybe ask someone [...]

Tags: networking, Professors, Speaking, Teaching

As a trainer and speaker, particularly if you work with teachers, administrators, librarians, or other school district personnel, you may have the same question that was posted on my blog recently: For those of us who work primarily with schools, what are some options we have for making money during the summer months? Especially if [...]

Tags: money, presentation, speakers, Speaking

You want your classroom to be a place where you can teach and your students can learn, of course. Establishing particular practices will help make sure that such a classroom exists. Civility. Many of have written about the loss of civility in today’s society and certainly, there is no question about the need to remind and [...]

Tags: peace of mind, Professors, school, stress, students, Teaching

Writing has many phases. Thus, capturing your ideas, both the good and the not-so-good ones, is part of the process. Here are three ideas to get and keep your flow going so that you postpone your procrastination. There’s always time for that later… 1. Open a document. Whether it is a document on your computer [...]

Tags: procrastination, Productivity, tips, writing

Some semesters end – but don’t really feel as if they have ended. We have vestiges of them still lying around our physical and mental space. Here are 5 tips to help you really close out your semester so you can focus on whatever is coming next for you. Newsflash: Let’s say it’s the end [...]

Tags: Productivity, Professors, students, teachers, Teaching, tips

The phone is a wonderful invention, and it’s supposed to be a tool. Too much time spent on the phone can easily divert you from tasks at hand. This is true at work and at home. To help you manage your time productively, implement one or more of the following: 1. Keep a phone log [...]

Tags: calls, distractions, energy, focus, Productivity, Professors, saving time, teachers, Teaching, telephones, time, tips

We all need to calm down! Can you say an “Amen!” to that? You might be reading this during the holiday season–or you might be reading it at any other time of the year, and it will still apply. This article will use the acronym “CALM” to structure the suggestions and to help you remember [...]

Tags: calm, clutter, frantic, procrastination, Productivity, stress

Writing is a recursive process. That is, you think, you write, you fix your writing, you think some more, you do a little research, you write more words, you edit, you get a good idea, and on it goes. Back and forth and around and around. There are times when you can just float around [...]

Tags: articles, Books, editing, Productivity, revising, revisions, writers, writing

When people first started receiving email, it was exciting!  On any day when you got an email you thought, “Oh, I got an email!” Then, when you got about five emails a day you could still be pretty darn thrilled. But now that you’re at the point of receiving 100 to 150 emails a day or [...]

Tags: distraction, email, inbox, overwhelm, procrastinate, stress