1. What is the key to perseverance?
Getting started is the key.
The first step is the hardest. Sit down and then stay there.
2. What is sending you right over the edge?
You are– Catastrophizing only raises your blood pressure.
Who needs the drama?
Remember: Catastrophizing is just another form of procrastination.
3. Who could work at a desk stacked so [...]
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The Top 7 Tips to Help You Re- Start Writing Your Dissertation
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, choice, creativity, decluttering, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, following through, getting started, grateful, gratitude, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, procrastination, re-group, re-start, regret, regrouping, restart writing, restarting, self-sabotage, top strengths, writing, writing breaks, writing, dissertation, tagged bad attitude, catastrophizing, creativity, decluttering, gratitude, momentum, perseverance, procrastination, re-start dissertation, regret, Smart Tips, successful writing on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
During Your Dissertation Daze, Bravely Isolate the Unimportant
Posted in academic, brave, choice, cleaning, coaching, commitment, courage, decluttering, demands, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, housecleaning, planning, self-care, teaching writing, time theft, tagged choose family, compartmentalize, cutting corners on teaching, decide what is important, dissertation writing, housekeeping chores, let go of the unimportant, speed clean on December 9, 2007 | No Comments »
When I was writing my dissertation, I tried my best to let go of all that was unimportant.
I always wanted more time to be with my kids and to do that I had to let go of all but the essential aspects of my teaching. I wasn’t perfect. Even though I tried to compartmentalize, class [...]
How I Regrouped and Re-Started the Writing Even When Life Encroached
Posted in choice, coaching, decluttering, dissertation coach, getting started, re-start, regrouping, resilience, restarting, trusting yourself, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged coming back from vacation, making choices, re-start writing, resilience, self-awareness, trust yourself on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been on a trip, away from my writing projects and away from other job-related commitments. It’s hard to come back.
I enjoy writing my blog. I also have another writing project that is new and important to me, but re-starting takes effort.
Coming back to most writing tasks requires more of us than just doing it.
1) [...]
Procrastinating On Your Dissertation? Look Around, Where Else Are You Procrastinating?
Posted in choice, coaching, decluttering, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, procrastination, writing, writing, dissertation on August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
If you find you cannot put two sentences together in your dissertation, or you cannot decide how to move your argument forward, then maybe it’s time to take action on some other front. Where might that be, you ask?
Well, if you feel stuck and you’re not moving forward on your argument, you may be procrastinating. So [...]
