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Building Balance

Welcome to Building Balance! I’m an early-career physics professor and advocate for work-life balance and mental health. I learned the hard way in graduate school that if I didn’t create my own boundaries and find balance in my life, the world would take advantage of that. Now, I pass those lessons on to other knowledge workers who feel besieged by our era of constant connectivity and proscriptive passion.

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I also offer workshops on work-life balance for knowledge workers.

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Review: Zen to Done

9/29/2022

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Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts that highlight some of the books and other resources that I've found helpful in learning to manage my time and energy. This one was recommended to me by my sister-in-law, and I've decided to highlight it first because I think it's an amazing place to start if you're feeling overwhelmed.

Zen to Done is written by Leo Babauta, who is well-known in the world of minimalism, but you don't have to be a hardline minimalist to appreciate this book. As described on Babauta's website, Zen To Done, or ZTD, is a response to the Getting Things Done productivity method, with a more streamlined approach.

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Wait, what was I doing? Combating time fragmentation and attention residue.

9/2/2021

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Over the last few weeks, I have been packing up everything I own to move to a new town. The process of moving is always stressful (though it can be exciting as well!), and a bit part of the stress is the way all the little tasks of moving show up as constant distractions. There are boxes everywhere reminding you that you meant to pack that book you finished last night, the morning mail arrival makes you realize you need to start forwarding the mail, and then there's the actual process of moving, which never comes at a convenient time.

For the last few weeks, I've had my time divided up into smaller and smaller slices every day, and even though I'm still working roughly the same hours, it feels like I haven't made anywhere near as much progress is usual. The first few times this happened to me (I have moved many times in the last few years), I was frustrated. I was still working as much as I had planned, squeezing in 15 minutes here and 20 there on projects. So if I was putting in the same time, why was I not getting the same results?

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Time sprinting

7/1/2021

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Batching your time for better focus and reducing procrastination.
One of the biggest barriers to our work-life balance is the amount of time we spend neither working nor playing.

​You know the time I mean. It’s when you’re sitting at your desk, dreading some task that feels boring or intimidating or even impossible. You don’t want to start the task, either because you fear you can’t accomplish it in the end or because you just don’t want to do it. So you haven’t started. But instead of using the time not spent on that task to do some other important task or to rest and recover, you spend it worrying, your attention divided between whatever it is you tell yourself you’re focusing on and your dread.


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