This time management video introduces the ‘rocks of time’ idea that will help you to recognise how you spend packages of time throughout the day and to reflect on whether you are viewing and ordering your tasks in the most efficient and strategic way. 

“It is very easy to spend your day chasing reassuring small wins, often associated with administration, and to put off the bigger, harder tasks. For a while, I stopped writing grants without deadlines because they felt like something “for me”, and therefore easier to postpone. I now schedule grant writing time robustly in my diary. If I move it, I reschedule it. Otherwise, only I lose out.”

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