How This Book Will Help You 7
I. Specific Challenges in Academic Life-Institutional Factors 11
II. Specific Challenges-Individual Factors 23
1. Knowing myself: Individual behaviour style 23
2. My goals, roles, and values: Basis for my orientation 34
3. Career planning, balance, and integration in my life 46
III. Managing Personal Energy-From Distress to Flow 61
1. Distress and eustress 61
2. Allocating, using, and strengthening my energies 75
IV. Effective Planning and Evaluation Methods 93
1. Principles 93
2. Task management 100
3. Priorities 108
4. Achieving goals 114
5. Planning top-down to organise the next day 124
6. Mastering my time thieves 140
7. Evaluation 148
8. Systems for time management 155
V. Order 163
1. Information and communication 163
2. Workplace and archives 171
VI. Time Management for the Main Fields of Academic Activity 179
1. Research 179
2. Teaching, supervision, and mentoring of students 204
3. Administrative and leadership tasks 213
4. Networking, external exchange, service, and transfer 223
Further Support and Literature 229
The Authors 239
