Is your university enforcing hard deadlines for finishing dissertations? Are you getting any signals from your university about what might be ahead for you? Has your advisor become more critical of your work?
Every day I talk with dissertation clients who are trying hard to finish their doctoral degree. This week several people sounded a similarly unsettling [...]
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Hard Deadlines: Are You Being Squeezed Out of Your Doctoral Program?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, advisor, coaching, deadline, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, strategies, tagged finishing the dissertation, hard deadlines, working with advisor on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Three Quick Fixes to Jolt You into Action on Your Dissertation
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, coaching, deadline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, goals, mental toughness, planning, regret, self-sabotage, take charge, television, time management, time theft, writing, writing breaks, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation, quick fixes, small changes, Smart Tips, take charge, writing on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Are you writing at a snail’s pace? Are you stopping short of making your deadlines? Are you still not meeting your goals? What’s it going to take at the end of the day to have completed what you said you were going to do?
Try a fast, easy adjustment — making a small change can sometimes [...]
2 Huge Benefits to the 4-Step Plan for Greater Productivity
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, accountability, choice, coaching, commitment, deadline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, exercise, focus, following through, goals, momentum, perseverance, planning, productivity, realistic goals, self-care, 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 | No Comments »
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 by increasing her [...]
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 [...]
