{"id":74,"date":"2011-02-21T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/?p=74"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:31:59","slug":"i-choose-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/2011\/02\/21\/i-choose-all\/","title":{"rendered":"I choose: All."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten days after my anxious last post<\/a>, and I’m still feeling good. In fact, I think I’m feeling even better.<\/p>\n

I feel this great because I’m still in the positive feedback cycle of awesomeness! I was even forced out of it for a few days – as I was skilled enough to re-sprain my ankle – and happily climbed back in my hamster wheel once my physiotherapist-determined healing time had passed.<\/p>\n

Things I have learned in the last ten days:<\/p>\n

-Don’t clean the shower from within the shower. You will re-injure your injuries.<\/p>\n

-Working hard on weekends feels amazing; is worth it<\/p>\n

-Working hard all the time feels even better<\/p>\n

-The recumbent bike feels like a cop out work out.<\/p>\n

Well, those are the hamster-wheel-related things I’ve learned. The middle two points refer to a major success that came together just this past weekend. Nearly two weeks ago now, I had a really motivating Skype date with my supervisor, after which I recovered from here<\/a>. We decided during that meeting that I would create a shortish (~6 pages) thesis outline containing all the meat – i.e. my data results and discussion points for each of my chapters. At the time, I said something along the lines of ‘will have it done in a matter of days’, which wasn’t what happened exactly. One week passed and I had only started working on the Intro Chapter by that point, so I decided to determine a deadline.<\/p>\n

Now, I give myself deadlines all the time but then I let time fly by and deal with feeling guilty after. This time, I decided to experiment by telling my supervisor that I was going to send her my outline by Sunday. Now that<\/em> lit a fire under my butt. And it worked really well.<\/p>\n

Today I feel great. I achieved this (albeit, second attempt) deadline and worked hard at it. I hadn’t worked quite so hard on a weekend for a while and it actually felt really good, when usually the thought of doing so leads to feeling overwhelmed. What’s better is that a\u00a0sizeable chunk of the time I spent sitting in my wee office was devoted to my data\/graphs – I actually furthered my analysis of some data. I wasn’t just passively writing it up. Scientific [good] times had by all!<\/p>\n

Anyway, the purpose of this tale is to say: I tried something new, a little more ridged, and it worked. Well! Now I sit here and wait for her read through and response…and by sit here I mean continue to work hard so that I can continue this positive feedback cycle. I’ll let myself do some fun tasks for today as a reward, though. Teaching Dossier here I come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten days after my anxious last post, and I’m still feeling good. In fact, I think I’m feeling even better. I feel this great because I’m still in the positive feedback cycle of awesomeness! I was even forced out of it for a few days – as I was skilled enough to re-sprain my ankle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,124523],"tags":[720,124533,124531,1806,37],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing","category-sciencing","tag-analysis","tag-attitude","tag-data-data-data","tag-goals","tag-ubc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rebeccataylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}