Did you think you had much of your shopping done for the holidays, but now you can’t find key presents? Are you wondering where that stocking- stuffer stuff is? In the multiple piles of boxes that you have around your bedroom and basement? Did you really buy them…or maybe not? Did you schedule your holiday gathering [...]
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What was I thinking?
Posted in academic, anxiety, demands, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, family, goals, planning, re-group, realistic goals, relationships, teaching, time management, writing, writing schedule, tagged calendar, daily goals during holiday, dissertation, end of semester overwhelm, family conflict, holiday stress, insensitive relative, perfect person, plan, schedule on December 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Bad Commute and Your Writing
Posted in anxiety, distractions, family, focus, following through, getting started, mental toughness, perseverance, planning, re-group, re-start, reasons for not writing, resilience, self-discipline, setbacks, using your strengths, write more easily, writing schedule, writing, dissertation, tagged coaching, commute, dissertation, Downton Abbey, Rush hour traffic, writing on December 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
If your goal is to work on your dissertation or your article, what gets in your way and eats up your time and energy? Every writer can find a million more important things to do, such as watching all the episodes of the first season of Downton Abbey in one day. But what else derails [...]
Manage your fears and write
Posted in academic, anxiety, basketball, beliefs, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, getting started, goals, gremlin, mental toughness, perseverance, self-discipline, student athletes, tagged Butler University, dissertation coach, Doctorate, high-stakes writing, manage your fears, manage your goals, performance, recurring nightmare, writing on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Most people I know speak of a recurring nightmare: –Having to take a test you haven’t studied for –Having to give a talk, but being unprepared –Not being able to get to the location where your talk or test is to be given –Feeling under great tension and wearing yourself out trying to accomplish something [...]
Bonjour Mars! What do you really, really want to have written by the end of March?
Posted in anxiety, boundaries, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, goals, self-care, strategies, structures, write more easily, tagged Lizard Brain, Research, results first, thesis, Writer, Writers Resources, writing, Writing Exercises, writing vs research on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
March is a long month – 4 ½ weeks. And for some people, there’s a week of Spring Vacation thrown in! Whoopy! What kind of plan for writing do you want for March? Days you are going to work, the amount of time you will work, or how much you will get done? Results [...]
Recording TV shows is a hazard to your writing
Posted in academic, accountability, anxiety, choice, coaching, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, habit, Internet, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, productivity, self-care, self-deception, self-discipline, self-sabotage, strategies, television, time management, time theft, write more easily, writing models, writing, dissertation, tagged digital stress, recording tv shows, tv torpor, watching tv instead of writing on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A dissertation coaching client said that she stopped watching TV and picked up her writing pace in order to meet a deadline. Now that she has met the deadline, she worries that she will be sucked into watching all of the TV shows that she recorded during her heavy-duty period of writing. Do you record TV shows? It’s [...]
Start Writing by Lowering the Stakes
Posted in anxiety, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, exercise, fun, getting started, momentum, play, re-group, re-start, resources, restart writing, restarting, start writing, strategies, struggling, write more easily, tagged 750words.com, exercise, improve your mood, lower resistance to writing, restart your writing, to write lower the stakes on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Feeling stuck? Feeling as if your well has gone dry? What’s a writer to do? At such times when nothing seems to be coming together for you in your writing and when you feel more resistance toward your dissertation than usual, what can you do to stir things up a bit and to start writing? [...]
7 Tips to Increase Writing Productivity Before the Holidays
Posted in academic, accountability, anxiety, boundaries, coaching, commitment, deadline, demands, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, getting started, goals, planning, productivity, realistic goals, showing up, start writing, time management, writing breaks, tagged hiring a dissertation coach, meeting a deadline, taking responsibility for your writing, writing productivity on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to finish a dissertation draft or an article or a chunk of writing before the holidays? Also trying to keep on top of your daily job or finish your grading? And don’t even mention that you have kids. Did you mention that you’re sleep-challenged? And struggling with the real need to eat sweets just [...]
Writers Can Change Their Perspective by Practicing Gratitude
Posted in coaching, self-care, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, positive psychology, top strengths, anxiety, tagged lens of gratitude, change perspective, gratitude eases writer's anxiety, gratitude as strength on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I’ve asked a dissertation coaching client if he or she would look at a problem through a lens of gratitude, I am first of all surprised at what I had just blurted out and I wonder what the client will say. Secondly, I’m surprised at how almost immediately the client slows down, lets go [...]
