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Writing

 

In addition to my academic publications, I’ve been a contributing writer for ProfHacker since August 2009, where I mostly write about productivity, pedagogy, and work/life balance.

Productivity and Time Management

  • An Everyday Essential:the Timer
  • What’s Working?
  • Where Does Your Time Go?
  • Is Email Checking You?
  • Delegate to Yourself
  • Too Much Self Doubt? Try Thinking Like a Creator
  • Try a Mind-Sweep
  • Myers-Briggs: or how to learn to get along
  • The Now Habit
  • Discover Your Personal Organizational Style
  • The Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps

Work/Life Balance

  • Are You Spending Time on What Matters To You?
  • 3×3
  • Where’s the Fun in Funambulism?
  • GTD Contexts and Academic Work

Teaching

  • Syllabus: Extreme Makeover
  • The Catch-Up Day
  • Learning Student Names
  • Assigning Students to Small Groups
  • Breathing and Pedagogy
  • Organizing Your Teaching Materials
  • In Case of Emergency
  • Paperless Grading with GradeMark

Wellness

  • Got A Minute? Relax.
  • Got A Minute? Get Your Energy Flowing.
  • Got A Minute? Count Backwards.
  • A Little Fitness for Your Hands
  • Add Exercise to Your Conference Schedule

Software

  • How to Back Up Your Cloud
  • All Things Google: Tasks
  • The Forgotten Attachment Detector

Research

  • Improve Your Use of Google Books with Mirlyn and Hathi Trust
  • Using LOC Subject Headings

The Academic Profession

  • Creating and Maintaining Your CV
  • The Salt Mines. Really??

I'm a personal productivity coach and an Associate Professor of English.

nmh@nmhouston.com

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Recent posts on productivity

  • How to Have More Good Ideas
  • It’s Still the New Year
  • Pumpkins, Apples, and Your To-Do List
  • Balancing Priorities with Urgent Tasks — a Productivity Chat
  • The Power of Practice

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