How to Set Goals and Stay Motivated in the Age of Covid by Mimi Okabe

2020 may have been a difficult year for some of us to attain our year-end goals. With unexpected lockdowns and having to socially distance ourselves from each other, some of us may have been feeling bogged down, unmotivated, and lonely. How many of us can say that we achieved everything we set out to achieve at the beginning of this year? If you did, give yourself a huge pat on the back and crack open a bottle of champagne! If you didn’t—that’s OK. I find that when you surround yourself with inspiring, strong, successful people, you unconsciously channel their positive energy and end up setting yourself up for success too. So if you couldn’t do everything to your heart’s content this year, remember there’s always next year!

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Work Smarter not Harder: My Tips on How to Stay Afloat in the "Publish-or-Perish-World" as a Former Ph.D. Student by Mimi Okabe

Last month, I was invited to give a guest talk at the University of Alberta on how I managed to publish while I was a Ph.D. student. This talk was for a grad seminar called “Academic and Professional Writing,” which is currently being taught by Dr. Micah True in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies.

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