Is writing your dissertation a top priority for you? You may think that you are putting your writing project or dissertation first. At least you think about it or worry about it more time than you’d like. But what are you doing during your prime time, when you’re at your best? If there’s a deadline [...]
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What Can You Put Off so that Your Dissertation Comes First?
Posted in academic, choice, cleaning, deadline, discipline, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, getting started, housecleaning, time management, writing, tagged prioritize, put off everything you can, put your dissertation first on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Write Your Dissertation in August—If Not Now, When?
Posted in boundaries, choice, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, tagged draw boundaries, eliminate distractions, focus on your work on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
August, for many people writing dissertations, is the month of if-not-now-when? Other responsibilities are on the horizon, but what can you do to make use of the time August offers you? If you use the time you have now, you’ll very likely be controlling the space where you will be working and living later on. [...]
An Academic’s Well-Lived Life: Perseverance, Loyalty, Gratitude, Love
Posted in academic, advisor, brave, choice, coaching, courage, creativity, criticism, dissertation coach, following through, football, grateful, gratitude, perseverance, positive psychology, top strengths, using your strengths, tagged model for a professor, others matter, perseverence, teaching by example on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By now, you’ve probably heard that Randy Pausch died Friday at the age of 47. Though known in the field of computer science, he had gained world-wide fame from his wise, clever “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon in the fall of 2007. At that time he had been told that because of aggressive pancreatic cancer, he [...]
3 Success Tips to Help You Engage with Your Writing
Posted in Charlie Rose, choice, coaching, creativity, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, focus, goals, hope, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, planning, positive psychology, Smart Tips, writing, You Tube, tagged jumpstarting your writing, last resort, left brain, putting time in, resting the brain, right brain, scaring yourself into writing, threatening yourself on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past week two different people, both of whom are approximately 32, seemed surprised that I had heard of the singing group Coldplay. The frenetic marketing of Coldplay’s new record would make it hard not to have heard of them. To dig up a little more on Coldplay, I turned to YouTube. I found [...]
Keep Your Head in Your Dissertation This Summer
Posted in academic, brave, choice, cleaning, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, goals, memorable start, planning, restart writing, Smart Tips, strategies, take charge, writing, tagged priorities, summer writing, urgency on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You want to be at a good place with your writing at summer’s end? You can absolutely do that, especially if you approach the summer with a bit of urgency and heat. Get a picture of yourself in your mind’s eye of you taking charge. What would your taking charge look like? 1. See what’s [...]
Conflicting Demands: Family, Holidays, and Dissertations
Posted in advisor, choice, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, tagged hard choices on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I always look forward to Memorial Day week-end. As I enjoy the current Memorial Day holiday here in the U.S., I am thinking back to a Memorial Day week-end a few years ago when I had to choose my dissertation over the holiday week-end with my family. In my Washington, DC suburb, Memorial Day has always [...]
Whatever You Do, Don’t Open Your Email
Posted in choice, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, mental toughness, planning, restart writing, self-sabotage, Smart Tips, time management, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation, distractions, email on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been carrying a black L.L. Bean bag filled with writing projects. I keep thinking that I will surely have a moment here or there when I can dive into my bag. That write-now moment just does not jump out from my current what-the-heck-is-going-on-here life. So what do I do when I can hide out for [...]
Writing Matters and Others Matter—Prioritizing Fights Procrastination
Posted in academic, anxiety, brave, choice, coaching, commitment, courage, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, following through, getting started, goals, mental toughness, motivation, productivity, reasons for not writing, relationships, self-sabotage, Smart Tips, start writing, time, time management, using your strengths, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation coach, international coach, priorities, prioritizing, procrastination, responsibility to others, time management on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re like me, you don’t have uninterrupted time for writing. Maybe you work full time in a demanding job or work two demanding part-time jobs or you take care of your children. And when you get to the point when you do have time to write, you’re exhausted. Just brain dead. And that, of [...]
2 Huge Benefits to the 4-Step Plan for Greater Productivity
Posted in academic, accountability, choice, coaching, commitment, deadline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, exercise, focus, following through, goals, momentum, perseverance, planning, productivity, realistic goals, self-care, Smart Tips, time, writing, writing breaks, tagged calm, exercise, fulfilled, greater productivity, low-stress, meet deadlines, no anxiety, plan, stick to plan, write daily on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Want to feel calm, even fulfilled, while increasing your productivity? And meet a dissertation deadline? Read on. Recently, I blogged about how a client achieved greater productivity in her writing. She and I had collaborated over what steps would most likely yield success. Sticking to her plan gave her the success she wanted–she met her deadline [...]
