Dissertation + 7 Other Life Facets

Over the holidays, I discovered a great guide to fitting the dissertation process into one's life:  Dissertation and Research Success (2013) by Robin Buckley (PhD) and Timothy Delicath (PhD).  First things first...you focus on the dissertation as just one facet of your life.  It stresses that you need balance.  This is proving to be quite difficult, but I get it.

I put together a bit of a plan...a list of "to do's" for each day, each week, each month.  Following that plan is another story altogether.  But I'm trying.  

One of the facets is health.  Since the first of the year, we've run two half-marathons and are scheduled to do a third on April 13th.  Weather and workload have hindered the training schedule quite a bit.  Oh well, if I have to walk the thing in two weeks, I'll walk it.  I sure hate seeing the sag wagon, but that's small potatoes.