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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 [...]
How to Write a Dissertation Quickly
Posted in academic, accountability, coaching, commitment, deadline, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, finishing the dissertation, getting started, gremlin, mental toughness, perseverance, procrastination, re-group, re-start, restart writing, restarting, Smart Tips, start writing, top strengths, using your strengths, write more easily, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, finish the dissertation, how to do a dissertation quickly, how to start writing, learn from the dissertation process, write consistently, writing habit on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“How can I do a dissertation quickly,” asked a would-be dissertator. Quickly, relative to what? Relative to not doing it at all? Quickly in terms of jumping back into the process and finishing it up? How rigorous is your university? How demanding is your advisor? All of these questions are relevant, but first you have [...]
Are You Using Others to Shield You from Your Dissertation?
Posted in coaching, deadline, determination, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, finishing the dissertation, mental toughness, motivation, perseverance, procrastination, self-deception, self-sabotage, top strengths, using your strengths, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged ability to love, excuses, family as excuse, family obligations, juggling dissertation and family, others matter, what motivates me on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Putting others first is a strength, but using that strength casually and even irresponsibly can lead to procrastinating on your dissertation. If one of your top strengths is the ability to love and be loved, you can be assured that you won’t be lonely in your old age. Probably you won’t be lonely before you [...]
To Produce Writing, Toughen Your Resolve and Reign in Your Curiosity
Posted in academic, coaching, curiosity, deadline, determination, discipline, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, goals, mental toughness, perseverance, productivity, research, take charge, top strengths, using your strengths, writing, tagged curiosity, derail writing, love of learning, meet deadline, mental toughness takes strategic planning, produce text, signature strengths on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Writers, particularly dissertators, often share the character strengths of curiosity and love of learning. Do you have both of those strengths? If you’re writing a dissertation, I’ll bet you do. Many of my clients possess those two powerful strengths (I ask all of my coaching clients to take the VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire at www.authentichappiness.com,). [...]
To Make Writing Your Dissertation Easier, Move Quickly into Flow
Posted in coaching, deadline, dissertation coach, distractions, flow, Lizard Brain, productivity, Smart Tips, structures, time management, travel, urgency, write more easily, tagged build urgency, commuting, flow, make use of odd moments, make writing easy, Netbook, remove obstacles, visual reminders, write quickly on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Writing is easier for me when I’m in flow. That is, when I feel some challenge in expressing the content and producing text, but, even though challenged, I know that I have the skills that are needed. The tricky part is getting into flow. 1. To move into flow, write more quickly. Until I’m in flow, [...]
Be Your First Reader to Ask and Answer the Question “So What?”
Posted in academic, deadline, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, resources, strategies, take charge, take stock, tagged asking questions, clarity, concept, Critical approach, key terms, so what?, succinctness on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have you written a section or a chapter in your dissertation that during the writing you were engaged and even in flow, but later when you read it over, you aren’t particularly in awe? In fact, you realize you’re just recounting a narrative. Or basically writing description, and it isn’t even good description. It’s short. [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hard Deadlines: Are You Being Squeezed Out of Your Doctoral Program?
Posted in academic, advisor, coaching, deadline, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, Smart Tips, strategies, tagged finishing the dissertation, hard deadlines, working with advisor on June 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
