Making goals for an entire year seems to me to be self-sabotaging.
Are we talking about making a big change that you’ll be so disciplined that you’ll do that action you’re contemplating every single day for the next year? That’s too much time to deal with.
Chunk it down.
If you decide where you want to be in [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Where Do You Want to be on Your Dissertation in 3 Months?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, alliances, choice, coaching, commitment, discipline, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, following through, getting started, goals, momentum, perseverance, planning, productivity, re-start, realistic goals, resources, restart writing, self-sabotage, strategies, tagged 3-month goals, alliances, goals, plan, resolutions, resources, short-term, support, write it down on December 30, 2007 | No Comments »
The Top 7 Tips to Help You Re- Start Writing Your Dissertation
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, choice, creativity, decluttering, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, following through, getting started, grateful, gratitude, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, procrastination, re-group, re-start, regret, regrouping, restart writing, restarting, self-sabotage, top strengths, writing, writing breaks, writing, dissertation, tagged bad attitude, catastrophizing, creativity, decluttering, gratitude, momentum, perseverance, procrastination, re-start dissertation, regret, Smart Tips, successful writing on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
1. What is the key to perseverance?
Getting started is the key.
The first step is the hardest. Sit down and then stay there.
2. What is sending you right over the edge?
You are– Catastrophizing only raises your blood pressure.
Who needs the drama?
Remember: Catastrophizing is just another form of procrastination.
3. Who could work at a desk stacked so [...]
Good Luck at the MLA
Posted in You Tube, academic, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fun, travel, writing, tagged dissertation writers, dressage, encouragement, fun, MLA interviewing, suppport, Youtube on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
As many of you know, the MLA meetings begin on Dec. 27th in Chicago.
I’ll be thinking of those of you who are having interviews.
For good luck and for some fun, click on the link below to see a spectacular performance—it’s just amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQgTiqhPbw
Do well! And safe journeys,
Nancy
www.nwcoaching.com
http://www.mentorcoach.com/training-team.html#whichard
Let It Snow!
Posted in coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fun, joy, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation writers, snow, snow on blog, thanks to readers, writing on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Do you notice the snow falling here on my blog? I guess it isn’t sticking, but in my part of the US, we don’t get a lot of snow.
Thanks to all of you who have read my blog this past year.
Keep reading and let me know how I can be of help.
Also, I have [...]
Merry Christmas–and a “movie” gift for you writers
Posted in coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, writing, writing breaks, tagged disseration writers, Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, movie clip, writing on December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Dear Dissertation Writing friends and other friends, too–
How are you feeling tonight after making it through another Christmas? Are you as exhausted as I am?
I’m not quite ready to take stock, but I want to give myself a pat on the back for doing o.k.
Tonight I have a gift for you—actually, it’s one that Ben Dean, my [...]
Finding Time to Write—Give A Gift to Yourself
Posted in coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, family, time, writing, tagged carving time, writing during the holiday, writing for a few minutes on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
For those of you who are celebrating holidays this week, it means you can’t be absolutely sure of anything, not of one day to the next, particularly if you have children home from school (pre-school through college) or adult offspring visiting for a few days.
I’m taking time off from coaching to be with my family [...]
Take Stock, Refuel via Gratitude and Hope, and Prepare for One More Push
Posted in academic, brave, coaching, commitment, courage, deadline, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, goals, grateful, gratitude, hope, motivation, perseverance, re-group, re-start, restart writing, take stock, using your strengths, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged courage, deadline, finishing, gratitude, hope, Taking stock in writing process on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Have you given yourself until, say, tonight or tomorrow to write and then your plan is to take a break, send the thing off, go on a holiday?
Time to take stock.
Stop and breathe.
Where are you in the process? You’ve put in time, you’ve written some, and you have a bit more to do.
This isn’t the [...]
Set Your Own Hard Deadline
Posted in academic, choice, coaching, commitment, deadline, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, goals, motivation, planning, re-start, realistic goals, regrouping, start writing, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged deadline, dissertation, holiday, responsibility, start writing on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Don’t wait on others to set your deadline.
When someone tells you that if you don’t act now your chance will be gone forever, you will want to act.
If you know that you have a hard deadline for submitting writing, you will want to act. You may resist doing the work, but you will want to act.
What [...]
“Nothing motivates like a hard deadline. . .”
Posted in academic, choice, coaching, commitment, deadline, determination, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, following through, goals, momentum, motivation, start writing, writing, dissertation, tagged deadline, dissertation, momentum, motivation, reaching a goal before a deadline, writing, writing before the holidays on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Maybe you have received ads, as I have, proclaiming that “this is your final courtesy reminder about tomorrow night’s teleconference.” Final reminder? Wow! I take note of that, even if I hadn’t thought about going to the teleconference at all.
One client who had set this Saturday night before her family’s Christmas as a deadline for [...]
Value-Added Gratitude Helps You to Control Negative Emotions and Stay on Track with Your Writing
Posted in academic, choice, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, getting started, grateful, gratitude, happiness, life, re-start, regrouping, resilience, resources, restart writing, restarting, start writing, time, time theft, tagged choice, cultivate gratitude, feeling grateful helps with writing, grateful on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Running late. Seasonal distractions. Time-starved. I don’t like these feelings,
but everywhere I go, there they are.
This morning I was buying chocolate Santas at a German gourmet bakery. And,
as usual, I was running late. Distracted. Way late in all that I needed
to do for my work and for the holiday.
As my stuff was being tallied, out [...]
