What do you want more of in 2009? Greater productivity in your writing? Much more motivation to help you start writing your dissertation? How about Perseverance? Or physical endurance? Are you ready to launch your 2009 Self-Improvement Package? How about joining a Dissertation Boot Camp? From Oprah to gyms to decluttering gurus, we’re being given [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Dissertation Boot Camp and Self-Improvement Gurus—Using the Power of Habit in the New Year
Posted in academic, accountability, coaching, decluttering, determination, discipline, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, following through, getting started, mental toughness, momentum, motivation, perseverance, planning, re-start, restart writing, start writing, take charge, take stock, tagged dissertation boot camp, good writing habits, power of habit, what I want more of in 2009 on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Make Getting Started on Your Writing Easier: Top 5 Reasons to Develop a No-Kidding, No-Fooling Daily Writing Habit
Posted in accountability, commitment, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, getting started, isolated, isolation, mental toughness, momentum, procrastination, research, self-deception, self-sabotage, Smart Tips, take charge, time management, tagged develop a writing habit, dissertation boot camp, fighting internal battles, replace distraction, replace self-deception, write daily on dissertation on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What if writing each day on your dissertation was a habit? What would you gain from that? Do you know the power of habit? Here are the top 5 reasons for developing a solid, robust, no-kidding daily writing habit: 1. You would not lose time and energy fighting the internal battles of whether you would [...]
Write Like a Pro: Set Goals and Add Some Intensity to Your Dissertation Writing
Posted in commitment, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, mental toughness, planning, tagged how important is talent, setting specific daily goals about your writing process, writing with intensity on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large of Fortune, says that talent is overrated, and from the attention his ideas are receiving, it appears that his writing is convincing a wide audience. He first wrote on the topic in a Fortune cover story and has since published a book. He argues that to become accomplished, one [...]
What Do You Do When You Can’t Write Your Dissertation? How Do You Shake Things Up?
Posted in boundaries, brave, courage, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, getting started, motivation, planning, re-start, restart writing, Smart Tips, start writing, tagged can't write dissertation, change your physical space, motivate yourself on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hear many people say that they can’t write their dissertation. Is that you? Has it been too long since you have written anything? Or too long since you contacted your advisor? How about shaking things up a bit? Where can you make a small change or even take a bold step? Many of my [...]
How to Motivate Yourself toward Successful Writing
Posted in academic, anxiety, getting started, motivation, planning, Smart Tips, start writing, success, trusting yourself, tagged calm, dissertation boot camp, prepare to write, trusting on December 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What is successful writing? And how can motivation play a part in your achieving successful writing? You, along with many people, may be celebrating holidays this week. It’s probably been next to impossible for you to do the writing that you had promised yourself you would do. It may also have been quite some time [...]
Find Motivation in a Dissertation Boot Camp with its Elements of a Hard Deadline
Posted in academic, children, commitment, deadline, demands, dissertation writing, family, getting started, mental toughness, perseverance, structures, time management, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation boot camp, Getting ready for Christmas, hard deadline on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas with the intensity of family, gifts, and travel can blot out everything else. Just Sending Cards can balloon into a fast-paced skit that ends with husband driving wife to the Post Office while wife continues to stamp, apply return label, and seal the final 15 cards that could possibly arrive before Christmas. Christmas is [...]
8 Tips for Writing Your Dissertation More Easily before the Holidays
Posted in academic, anxiety, boundaries, coaching, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, family, focus, getting started, planning, procrastination, re-start, restart writing, restarting, time management, tagged carve out work for each day, draw boundaries, focus, using time to write, write, write when you're freshest on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have been teaching this past semester and also trying to find the energy to write even the piddliest amount, then seeing the semester coming to an end must seem heaven-sent. Just when you thought you couldn’t keep going, here suddenly are days with no classes and no students. Now what? When I ask [...]
When Will You Start Writing Your Dissertation? How About Never?
Posted in academic, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, procrastination, restart writing, restarting, Smart Tips, writing, tagged never getting started writing, procrastination, putting the dissertation second on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Are you the person in the cartoon who in setting a date for a committee meeting says, “How about never? Would that work for you?” Is that the attitude you have toward your dissertation? When you have a big project—whether it’s writing a dissertation or a book or planning a big event—do you throw all [...]
