Pursuing a PhD 15: Planning the Next Trimester
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
I want to end this series by talking about how I'm planning for the next trimester and beyond and what is different now than what I was living with before I started this journey.
The beginning of this journey started with trying to get naps in, still working a bit on days that I planned to do school, but it has moved to no naps and no work on Mondays and Thursdays. Looking at my past trimester will help me to better plan my next trimester.
This has been such a joy being able to verbally process this change with you. Whenever you take on something new, you are changing your identity, adding to the person you already are and the person you are going to become.
I have recently gotten to the point where I identify as a PhD student and that I am thinking what it will be like when I am actually Dr. Woodruff. That was the first time I said that out loud!
Join me thinking about what it is going to be like when I finish this PhD journey. What journey are you on that you can imagine where you will be at the completion of that journey?
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| 0:00.0 | school is in session. Well, it is for me anyway. I know you may not be on a higher education |
| 0:12.4 | journey, but you are planning for or are in the midst of a shift in how you plan and spend |
| 0:20.0 | your time. I know this because you are an organized 365 podcast listener. Collectively, |
| 0:28.0 | we are all lifelong learners, pursuing the best version of ourselves and putting into action |
| 0:34.6 | the complete organization cycle. Over the next four years, I will share week by week |
| 0:41.4 | what I am continually decluttering to free up my time and space. How I am organizing my |
| 0:47.6 | days, my responsibilities, and my work both seen and unseen as I take captive every minute |
| 0:55.1 | at my discretion to increase my capacity and productivity and pursuit of a PhD in psychology, |
| 1:02.2 | so that I can have a seat at the academic table in the discussion of how we use our homes |
| 1:08.6 | and complete our housework and home organization tasks. Oh, there's the school bell. Let's |
| 1:17.8 | see what I learned this week. So this is the final episode that I'm going to post in this |
| 1:26.3 | PhD journey podcast. As I mentioned a few podcasts ago. One, I mean, I'm really how much more |
| 1:33.2 | can I possibly share about this? And two, that's really all you need. Like all we need is to actually |
| 1:39.0 | get started, iterate, and identify with whatever we are starting. So I now identify as a PhD candidate. |
| 1:47.2 | When I started this podcast, you probably heard a lot more hesitation in my voice and a lot |
| 1:52.0 | more confusion. And now I really feel clear about what we're doing and what this is going to look |
| 1:57.8 | like. I want to end this series by talking about how I'm planning for the next trimester and beyond |
| 2:05.9 | and what is different now than what I was living within December before I started this journey. |
| 2:13.9 | Before I started this journey, I had so much free time. I did not know what to do with it. And |
| 2:18.4 | actually Greg and I were both sleeping like on average nine hours a night. Like that's a lot of |
| 2:24.0 | sleep. And I was exhausted. Like I was going to bed at eight o'clock at night and sleeping nine hours |
| 2:29.2 | and 10 hours on the weekend. And so much time on my hands, I didn't know what to do with the time I |
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