Time Management
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This is a 101 collection of classic time management tools. It helps you
to become more productive or more relaxed (which in turn will make you
more productive).

I wrote everything here with the needs of PhD students and postdocs in
life science laboratories in mind. You may find it useful if you work in
a different field, although you may find the biologists’ humour hard to
understand.

I hope the time you spend reading this ebook will be time well spent ;-)

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Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   quotes_time.md
   problems.md
   activity_log.md
   smart_goals.md
   covey_matrix.md
   five_options.md
   ten_ways_to_say_no.md
   pomodoro.md
   kanban.md
   burndown.md
   gears.md
   the_best_goal_is_no_goal.md
   time_fairy.md
   time_management_tools.md

Trainers Guide
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   trainers_guide/instructions_for_trainers.md
   trainers_guide/overview.md
   trainers_guide/icebreaker_trainer_instructions.md
   trainers_guide/preparations.md
   trainers_guide/warmup.md
   trainers_guide/managing_tasks.md
   trainers_guide/poster_session.md
   trainers_guide/wrapup.md

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.. topic:: Sources

   The sources of this document, all images and material for exercises can
   be found on https://github.com/krother/time_management.

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.. topic:: Acknowledgements

   I would like to thank Jörn Manz for sparking my interest in Time
   Management, the PhD students Kasprzak J, Milanowska K, Musielak M,
   Philips A and Puton T for helping me field-test, Toastmasters
   International for many hours of practical expertise as a trainer and
   Wojciech Potrzebowski for the opportunity to present this content before
   a large audience.

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.. topic:: License

   © 2023 Dr. Kristian Rother (`kristian.rother@posteo.de`)

   Distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution
   Share-alike License 4.0. See creativecommons.org for details.
   
   You are allowed to modify and share this material, or even use it in a
   commercial setting, given that you attribute the author. 
   *So ideally you get rich, both of us get famous and everybody else gets their work done :-)*