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Balancing Project Priorities – A Recipe
Four ingredients: Basics – Pay the rent. Plan – Expand portfolio. Fold into Basics and leave to set. Motivation – Sprinkle with expectations and nudging emails. Compulsion – Scratch brain-itching ideas onto paper. Makes fuel. Mix haphazardly.
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This Week I’m Researching … Nutrition and Shakespeare
I like finding out stuff so I’m always researching something. And I love learning. If there was such a job as a Professional Learner (outside the upper echelons of academia), I would be doing that. Imagine my glee when I discovered FutureLearn. This is an online education site, globally accessible, with free courses delivered by real universities. Currently, I’m learning about nutrition and Shakespeare (the two topics are unconnected … so far). I’m also currently behind schedule in both courses, as I’ve taken on too much – kind of like piling a load of lovely food onto your plate then discovering your eyes are bigger than your stomach (figuratively, of…