Vlog 207 - How to set up your life to write

[@kamilazdybal]

5:25 Have a plan, have a whiteboard 8:04 Pick your priority 9:38 Create the opportunity for good behavior 11:07 Make sure that the desk is clean 12:29 Each week construct seven writing priorities 13:28 Structurally stopping all distractions 13:51 Take breaks 15:16 Think about the people with whom you spend time 16:52 Consider your relationship with sound 18:17 Say no a lot 19:26 Address your dependencies 21:03 Make sure that you improve something every day 23:00 Stop the gothic self-talk 25:26 If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist 27:10 Pick your rabbit 28:55 Change your attitude to failure 30:08 Have the courage to be different 31:07 Schedule writing 32:01 Control what you can control

[@willlowyoung677]

I want to imprint every single word of this vlog in my brain! Thank you Prof. Tara!!

[@a.e.5075]

Amazing vlog, dear professor Tara! Thank you so much for these amazing bits of advice. I find them extremely helpful and strengthening. I`m in my final year of PhD(the 6th) and I`ve wasted the past three years complaining, avoiding, in denial and in self-denigration. Hopefully, with your help, I will be able to overcome my fear of writing and finish to a PhD standard. God bless you!

[@ohsochuck1875]

I absolutely adore your personality. Thank you for sharing your content and perspectives.

[@bupemwanza1872]

My virtual mentor in academia. Thanks Prof and wish you the very best.

[@MsOm2006]

I'm very impressed that a professor takes part of her time to give thise invaluable advice

[@IndayMarikit]

I'm watching now nice sharing

[@bigdogontheprowl6957]

This is great information. I’m an undergraduate trying to get into academic writing to boost my finance career and my writing career. Thank you for the blessing.

[@charuniwijerathne2810]

I love your vlogs! Can't thank you enough

[@anjalyb6935]

perfect timing ...i'm writing my thesis. Thank you so much.

[@drstevenluwagga]

This is exactly what my small ears wanted to hear.i can't thank you enough prof. May God bless you abundantly.

[@annagustavsson9969]

Why didn' t I found Your vlog sooner!? 1 year to go... Thanks for all the great talks and best wishes from Sweden!

[@Live_life_with_no_regrets]

Love your inspirational energy... that's what I needed to hear. Please talk about the pain and pressure when you do your studies in a foreign language and your supervisor needs you to write native-like

[@claireh5661]

Great video for ECRs as well - Thanks Tara!

[@ma.roxannefernandez9050]

I want to say thank you, I’m taking my PhD and your insights helps me a lot.

[@annadinneen3794]

Watching this for about the fourth time. Brilliant!

[@nerdpoindexter]

Really helpful, going to have to watch a few times!

[@umeshkumargupta7619]

女士， 您讲得很不错！谢谢您. Thanks ma'am. You really explain beautifully!

[@peterbunonge5832]

Hi Prof. very fabulous here! Amazing work you are doing inspiring and motivating lots and lots of people out here. Always looking forward to hearing your new talk. Indeed you have helped clean my desk.

[@MrCritiqueish]

its like you are in my head.. Slow Writing, Fast Writing and now this.. THANK YOU so much!!

[@oneLife1life]

This is so wonderful to watch, love to the professor :)

[@samkumar2045]

Great vlog! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful information ! You are fabulous !!

[@GrandmaLychee]

Thank you Tara, this is fantastic! Not just tips for writing, but some good life advice as well!

[@doloreskearney2534]

Thank you so much. You're my honorary supervisor!!

[@hananebouslahi1433]

Thank you so much. you tackled every spot of life basically, you are brilliant.

[@sarahpotts3253]

Going to listen to some of these on my headphones while I'm out walking :) thanks

[@samuelfrimpong1305]

Thank you Tara. Very practical suggestions offered.

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Thank you Samuel - you let me know how I can help if there are areas I have missed txxx

[@Musika1321]

Have told everyone who could benefit about your broadcasts! Thanks so much for sharing your incredibly helpful experience.

[@meenakharatmal6575]

Very useful and motivational.. As I am now writing my chapters for PhD thesis....

[@ShazWag]

I like this woman. Thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@sara_bc]

this is a great video!! Unfortunately, due to the Pandemic, I got stranded at my parents house since March. So what had to be a quick visit has turned into half a year living with my parents (yay!). It has been beyond hard to get anything done. It is extremely difficult to make my family understand that I need a schedule, that I need quiet space, that I am not just "studying" (like for an exam)... ugh! This has been the least productive stage of my PhD and I've become more and more frustrated. I must learn to say NO often!! Thanks for all your wonderful tips and for sharing your knowledge with us!!!

[@mathewtoll6780]

This is great - I'm sure i'll watch this again

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Glad it may be of use Mathew - and let me kwow what else I can do to help. Txxx

[@rongenzhang7910]

Awesome! Thank you, Tara!

[@ahsanqureshi3467]

Amazing discussions and Vlogs. I am doing a part time PhD student at University of Salford. Tha mnks for the help.

[@TheMKabari]

Brilliant points of advice there...totally brilliant.

[@joybaker9164]

This is just what I needed. Thank you for a great vlog as usual.

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Thank you wonderful Joy. txxx

[@wiercik9348]

This lady is fantastic.

[@henrydaquipel8700]

perfect timing! thank you Prof. Tara. ♥️

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Wonderful Henry - always lovely to hear from you! txxx

[@student786]

Thank you for a very educative talk. Stay blessed.

[@070707SAM]

Brilliant ❤

[@KuNurasyiqinKuAmir]

very timely, thanks Tara!

[@TheTnaidu]

Loved this vlog so much... really useful tips especially about the silence 💕 and saying no.

[@DarijaWhispers]

Amazing vlogs as always. Best salutations from Morocco.

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Thank you so much, Otmane - you are wonderful. Biggest wave back to Morocco! txxx

[@CiruGithinji]

This is an awesome video. Thank you!

[@rinucart2603]

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[@chrisogonas]

Handy! Thanks Tara!

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Big hi Chrisogonas! txxx

[@nickybaker317]

Great timing in a week of global mayhem - make order of the disorder and pick your rabbit! Thank you!

[@yheuken4766]

Thank you Maestra!

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Big wave Yheu! txxx

[@bccgsg]

thank you Tara！

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Thanks you BCCGSG txxx

[@jjohn1388]

really love your vlog!

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Thank you John - biggest hug :) txxx

[@ElectricityTaster]

What you said at 11:08 caused emotional damage to your desk.

[@TheAARSAA]

Thanks, there are too many people in my lab, I cannot concentrate................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... and these small sounds i cannot bear them

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Good morning TheAARSAA - I am so sorry you are going through this. What I'd advise is work out an alternative space for any work that is not lab-based. We have wonderful engineers who come to our quiet zone once a day to write up their daily results. See if that is possible... You are fabulous - hang in there. txxx

[@ycz1931]

hi Tara, Thank you for another informative video. can you make one about how to deal with institutional microaggression for minority PhD students in a hyper hegemonic masculine university...

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Violeta - that is a powerful idea. I'll work on how to make that one work for you. And please - take care of yourself. Txxx

[@ycz1931]

@@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent Hi Tara, thanks for the attention, I am wondering whether I should leave my wonderful amazing experienced caring supervisor & somewhat racist uni, to another university with a doubled percentage of international PhDs & admin staff and a recently graduated supervisor who is also caring and kind...here is my email if you need case studies ([e-mail]), I also know 3 previous PhDs who have left for the same reason. My department hasn't had a none caucasian PhD graduate since 1997, now I know why, at least partially...

[@MrAitorSJ]

Gurl what works for you won't necessarily work for everyone/anyone else. Some people write better in a busy cafe. Some people need to alternate between the two...

[@TaraBrabazonLegacyContent]

Greetings wonderful S - you are absolutely right. That's why I've talked about managing the soundscape. If you want silence - you've got to construct that. If you want sonic life around you - you've got to construct that. And yes - the dream is always to create alternate spaces for different types of drafting. The point that worries me is that - in the contemporary universities - the spaces for these 'choices' are shrinking. So the time we have - we have to use. And so many of us are battling to find a fab five minutes for coffee :). But you are absolutely right - construct sonic spaces that enable your best writing self. Biggest hug to ya, S. txxx

[@nicolehunt326]

Awesome! Thank you, Tara!