Life/Science: 2022 began, ....we reap what we sow.

 It's been one week since winter break was over and work resumed. This week was spent mostly for writing a manuscript in office.

If I want to publish the manuscript by or around a conference on April, I got to complete the manuscript and send it out by February or earlier.

There will be a couple of conferences on early April (4/1-3 and 4/8-13). Judging from current covid situation (omicron is surging here in the US and it will likely continue on January), they will likely be online. That means preparation will be needed on March. 

Also on March there will be some due date for project report. For that, the data should come out and analysis should be completed by mid-Feb. 

For the data to come, we need to send samples by mid-January. For that,.....

Just like that, future events dictate what I should do now. Such is work, and it is somewhat like farming or gardening.

This kind of thinking allows us to have some sense of self-control. "We can choose the future."

So plant the seeds now. We reap what we sow.

[University of Oklahoma (OU) seal "the seed sower"]

"The Seed Sower… a reminder of the importance of sowing the seeds of knowledge, to bear fruit in the future. The face of the Seed Sower on our university seal was rendered to resemble the first president of the university, David Ross Boyd, who took half of his first year’s salary and personally bought, planted and even watered the very first trees on the then-barren OU campus." (from OU webpage)