How to Say No to the Urgent But Not Important
The urgent and unimportant easily consumes more time than it should. But 5 strategies can help you say the “no” that your “yes” really needs.
The urgent and unimportant easily consumes more time than it should. But 5 strategies can help you say the “no” that your “yes” really needs.
You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But even publishing should involve shipping for feedback.
You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But even as you ship for distribution, you should still ship for feedback.
You can’t know your research is publishable unless you ship it. But you can improve your odds by shipping it for feedback.
To know if your research is publishable, you need to ship it. But if you’re a student, you also might need to wait before you ship.
Sometimes, it can be hard to know whether your research is actually publishable. There are two steps to find out.
You can have two problems creating purple research. Black or brown research might look purple. Or purple research might look black or brown.
Determining whether research is publishable is essentially the same action as seeing whether a cow is purple.
Faith communities can be perfectly valid audiences for your research. And like any audience, that who will naturally shape your what.
Once you know who your research is for, you can then determine what it means to create publishable research for them.
If you’re a student, your research isn’t just for your professor because your assignment likely imitates something outside your class.
To start cutting through the clamor of the urgent and discern whether something is actually important, you need to ask these 4 questions.
Clearly understanding what you want in your research is important. Still more foundational, though, is grasping who it’s for.
Your research is worth protecting. Nobody will ever have more incentive to keep it safe than you do. So be sure you have a robust backup plan.
A lot goes into writing in biblical studies.1 And any number of tools can help you marshal your research into strong prose. For instance, Logos can give you access to hundreds of shelves’ worth of resources, Zotero can help you manage and cite this literature, and Word can give you a place to craft your arguments. But there’s another application that’s vastly more important than all of these combined. ...
Macrium Reflect is a wonderful backup tool. It does have a missing feature, but thankfully, a comparable solution is available.
The sooner something matters, the greater its urgency. The greater the urgency, the more whatever situation will press upon you.
Deciding what gets priority can be tricky. But a classic decision matrix can bring clarity and guide the kinds of actions you take.
If you never make time for your research, your project will go nowhere. But making time starts with deciding when you won’t do research.
School, work, and life are complex. You need a way of managing your commitments. If you’re looking for this, Todoist might be the tool for you.
You need to scale up your research timeline because of inaccuracies in small samples, differences between projects, and the planning fallacy.
You can better understand how long your research project may take if you track your progress, set your scope, and scale your timeline.
Your research question can be known or unknown by your audience. But they need to have the question before you can answer it.
Purple, or remarkable, research shares some common elements. But it can also have different shades depending on who it’s for.