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 [...]
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Writers Can Change Their Perspective by Practicing Gratitude
Posted in anxiety, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, positive psychology, self-care, top strengths, tagged change perspective, gratitude as strength, gratitude eases writer's anxiety, lens of gratitude on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mental Toughness, Discipline, and Planning—Essentials for Taking on a Beastly Dissertation
Posted in academic, anxiety, brave, courage, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, mental toughness, planning, procrastination, re-group, re-start, self-deception, self-sabotage, writing, tagged academics self-sabotage, catastrophizing adds anxiety, dissertation coach, mental toughness takes a plan, use past successes as motivation, work ethic on August 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The people I coach are terrific, bright, accomplished. Each is writing a book, a dissertation, or a thesis. Many are published writers. Many have won awards for their college-level teaching. Their intellect and accomplishments amaze me. But . . . (yes, there’s a “but” here) . . . they are struggling with their dissertation. With [...]
Like Writing, Exercise Needs to be a Habit: Nine Benefits for Writers
Posted in anxiety, coaching, creativity, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, exercise, getting started, happiness, inertia, isolated, planning, productivity, restart writing, running, self-care, start writing, time, time management, write more easily, writing, tagged exercise enhances mood, exercising is an aid to writing, plan schedule around exercise on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“How would I rate my self-care this week, particularly in the area of exercise?” is one of the questions I ask my clients to think about before we have our coaching call. Since many of my coaching clients are writers, and many of those writers are trying to find time to write a dissertation, I [...]
Drama in Your Life? How Do You Refocus and Get Back to Producing Text?
Posted in academic, anxiety, dissertation coach, distractions, focus, life, re-group, re-start, regrouping, restart writing, restarting, setbacks, using your strengths, tagged distractions, emotional responses, life getting in the way of writing, setbacks, small problems, using your strengths on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are you negotiating some of life’s bits and pieces today in order to write your dissertation? Has something gotten to you today or this week? It happens. We’re knocked about every day, but we keep going, even with pressures about fitting everything into our schedules, uncertainties about jobs, and, if you commute to work, traffic. [...]
How to Re-start Your Dissertation after a Vacation, Part I
Posted in academic, anxiety, coaching, commitment, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, getting started, planning, re-start, restarting, time management, write more easily, writing, tagged plan ahead for returning to the dissertation, returning from vacation, starting to write after a vacation on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Re-entry into most any job after a vacation is hard, but sometimes coming back to your diss can be particularly punishing. Your mind is still in that faraway (or close by) place, and you’re feeling not only unsettled, but more than a little resistant to the writing. Next time—plan for your return. If you’re taking [...]
Just about Anything Feels Better than Writing Your Dissertation
Posted in anxiety, distractions, fears, Lizard Brain, reasons for not writing, self-deception, self-sabotage, time theft, You Tube, tagged anxiety, behaviors that protect you, distractions, fear on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How was your Sunday? Productive? Or another day with only good intentions? If you don’t have much to show for the day, would you say that anxiety did you in? You know the signs of anxiety. You know when you’re getting high-jacked by a fear of one kind or another commonly associated with writing. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What if Dissertation Writers Had the Focus of Tiger Woods?
Posted in academic, anxiety, brave, coaching, courage, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, focus, getting started, mental toughness, momentum, re-group, re-start, self-sabotage, struggling, top strengths, using your strengths, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged flow, mental toughness, self-regulation, self-sabotage on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I’m in line at the grocery, I read the latest celeb magazines. If there’s an article about Tiger Woods, I’ll read about his wife and his yacht and, of course, his relationship with his father, but I’ve never been interested enough to take the time to see what are golf’s and Tiger Woods’s hold [...]
