Even though you may have a stated intention of working on your dissertation and making steady progress, you do everything and anything to sabotage yourself. Could this be you?
If this sounds familiar, read on.
A dissertation client is having great trouble moving forward. Every week when we talk, there’s been another obstacle which has kept her [...]
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Do You Use the All-or-Nothing Distortion?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, coaching, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, flow, getting started, gremlin, momentum, procrastination, re-start, reasons for not writing, restart writing, self-sabotage, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged ABD, acknowledging success, all-or-nothing distortion, distorting experience, flow, procrastination, self-sabotage on September 21, 2008 | No Comments »
How to Finish Your Dissertation: Don’t Let Complacency Sabotage You
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, coaching, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, email, gremlin, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, procrastination, productivity, self-deception, self-sabotage, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged complacency, dissertation sabotage, fear of success, overly confident, perseverance, procrastination on August 3, 2008 | No Comments »
You’ve been working hard on your dissertation this summer, honing your process, becoming surer of your argument, and thinking about the end. And the end is definitely in sight. Yay!!
A couple of clients who have just gone through an unexpectedly bumpy patch right toward the end of their work made a suggestion to pass on. [...]
What Does It Take to Persevere? – A Snapshot and a Tip
Posted in Smart Tips, brave, coaching, courage, creativity, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, gratitude, mental toughness, perseverance, writing, tagged against the odds, obstacles, perseverance, relief from writing, visual game on July 31, 2008 | No Comments »
She is in the last big push toward her defense, but she has had to climb mountains to get here. She has persevered in spite of incredible obstacles. Now she is demanding a great deal of herself by working until far in the night. As a scientist, she often is trying to make sense of numbers on a page or screen. When the numbers start to blur for her, she looks for a moment of fun, a change.
3 Success Tips to Help You Engage with Your Writing
Posted in Charlie Rose, Smart Tips, You Tube, choice, coaching, creativity, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, focus, goals, hope, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, planning, positive psychology, writing, 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 | No Comments »
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 several [...]
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 mental toughness, self-regulation, self-sabotage, flow on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Morning Has Broken—Are You Writing?
Posted in You Tube, academic, anxiety, coaching, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, getting started, music, writing, tagged music to raise your mood, time to write, writing in the morning on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Get up early, no matter how much you think you think you need sleep, and write.
Writing a dissertation takes single-mindedness. It takes mental focus. It works best when you feel calm, when anxiety is low, stress is low, and you feel little or no ambivalence.
And how often do you feel this way?
Do you waste time [...]
How I Avoid Writing: Procrastinating on the Dissertation
Posted in academic, coaching, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, following through, goals, mental toughness, perseverance, procrastination, re-group, restart writing, self-deception, self-sabotage, top strengths, writing, writing breaks, tagged dissertation, procrastination, self-regulation, self-sabotage, writing on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
This morning as I was reading a paragraph here and there in Newsweek, I swear I saw the words “put off finishing his dissertation” rise off the page in 3-inch-tall block letters, or so it seemed.
Procrastinating on one’s dissertation isn’t unusual, but to get your name in Newsweek because what you’re doing to procrastinate is [...]
How Does Mental Toughness Affect Your Motivation to Write Your Dissertation?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, coaching, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, goals, perseverance, writing, tagged accomplishing something, discipline, dissertation, mental toughness, motivation on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the top 3 posts on my blog is “Motivation in Writing the Dissertation–It’s All about Mental Toughness and Discipline.” Day after day, it stays in the top 3 posts. As yesterday turned into today, the first two hits of this new day again were on “Motivation in Writing the Dissertation–It’s All about Mental [...]
Writing Matters and Others Matter—Prioritizing Fights Procrastination
Posted in Smart Tips, 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, 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 | No Comments »
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 course, is the [...]
3 Strategies to Thwart Writer’s Flight and Emotional Eating
Posted in Lizard Brain, Smart Tips, academic, anxiety, brave, coaching, courage, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, fears, following through, mental toughness, perseverance, procrastination, self-deception, self-sabotage, top strengths, using your strengths, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation, dissertation coach, emotional eating, fear of failure, fear of success, feeling anxious, flee, making progress, procrastination, writing on March 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When my writing starts to come together, I am relieved, but I’m also anxious about what comes next.
My first response to those feelings of relief and a fluttering of anxiety almost always is to flee and to eat.
Be grateful if you don’t feel these urges. Or pat yourself on the back if once you would [...]
