By design, the marathon to earn a doctorate in accounting is probably different than your past
experiences. You should treat your doctoral program as your job. Your doctoral training is an
investment in your academic career; the more you put into it, the more you will benefit in the
future. This observation is not to imply that effort is more valuable than production, so keeping
your end-goals in mind is also important in evaluating how you spend your time. Being mindful
of the hierarchy of your responsibilities can be critical to your success, since the number of
seemingly good things that you can do will always exceed the amount of time that is available to
do them.