Career Services: Workshop Habit Management - 2024 I

A PhD is a marathon, not a sprint. To master this long-term project, you need to set goals and make plans. Knowing what you want to achieve and when to do what, will give you a grip on the process. Yet, goalsetting and planning can become a deceiving source of procrastination. To make progress you ultimately need behaviour and a behaviour is something you can do, right now. And if you repeat behaviour regularly, it can become a habit. For better or worse.  

In this workshop, you will reflect on your daily habits and routines in work and life. You will learn more about how habits are formed by looking at the so-called habit loop. This loop consists of four stages, namely: cue, craving, routine and result. You will discover how to break bad habits and how to build good ones. For each stage in the loop, you can create interventions to either cease or cultivate a habit. By familiarizing yourself with the Tiny Habits Method, you will learn more about formulating behavioral options, taking small steps and celebrating success. This will help you to internalize new behaviours.  
 
After this workshop, you will be more aware of your own habits and know better how to stop, start or change them. As a result, you will be more reflective and effective in executing your goals and plans.

Who is it for

PhDs of all graduate schools, regardless of your type of contract or the year of your PhD-project

Trainer
Rutger-Jan Scholtens

Free entrance

Our no-show policy
We are happy to offer workshops for free to all Utrecht University students. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Our activities tend to be fully booked well in advance. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint students who would have liked to attend. This is how we work: 

• Once you have signed up for a workshop, we expect you to attend;
• If you need to cancel your registration, do so at the earliest possible moment, at least 24 hours before the workshop;
• Not showing up without notice will mean you cannot participate in any Career Services activity for 8 weeks. Two no-shows mean you cannot participate for the remainder of the academic year.

Questions?
Please send an email to careerservices@uu.nl.