Been a while

 It has been a while since I wrote a blog.  I am using this as a reflection to process and improve on my development.

 

I sat down to do data analysis and none of it is making sense, any sense.

 

I had a nice long brisk walk with my supervisor, and I made a pact ... that I will read 10 abstracts a day.  First thing in the morning and I shall monitor my progress.

First of all, I need to monitor how long does this take and then read and write.  I am thinking it will take me max 30 minutes.  Prior to that I need to have the ten articles ready.  So that would take me another 10 minutes - key words, data base - Scopus, Web of science, EBSCO, and Google Scholar - separate them into reviews and relevance.  All up max an hour.  may be ten minutes to write up a summary.  I know if I monitor this weekly, I will get somewhere - this would have covered 70 articles in seven days.  Yes, I don’t' plan to have any days OFF especially for readying.  

I also need to work out backwards fromt eh date of thesis submission to now.  

I want to accomplish one journal article by the end of this year and two next year.

I want to present at a conference.

Finish my experiments too.

I feel all energised and when I actually get to work, feels overwhelming and I SHRINK.  I need to apply all the tools and hacks of motivating myself - incluing actions builds motivations and that builds confidence and not in the opposite way of confidence to motivation to action.