Not too long ago, when my adult son mentioned how busy his work and life have become, my husband was reminded of an annual planning session he had attended at which a facilitator presented a workshop on how to organize your time. As my husband drew a diagram from that workshop, I realized that he [...]
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How to Meet Your Writing Goals
Posted in academic, accountability, advisor, children, choice, deadline, demands, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, exercise, family, finishing the dissertation, focus, getting started, goals, grading, habit, perfectionism, perseverance, planning, productivity, reasons for not writing, relationships, research, restart writing, restarting, self-care, showing up, strategies, success, take charge, time management, time theft, writing schedule, writing to a deadline, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation coach, dissertation writing, make time to write, meeting a deadline, meeting goals, planning to write, planning writing session, protect your time, schedule, showing up, Stephen Covey, time management, what's important in your writing life on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Recording TV shows is a hazard to your writing
Posted in academic, accountability, anxiety, choice, coaching, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, habit, Internet, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, productivity, self-care, self-deception, self-discipline, self-sabotage, strategies, television, time management, time theft, write more easily, writing models, writing, dissertation, tagged digital stress, recording tv shows, tv torpor, watching tv instead of writing on November 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A dissertation coaching client said that she stopped watching TV and picked up her writing pace in order to meet a deadline. Now that she has met the deadline, she worries that she will be sucked into watching all of the TV shows that she recorded during her heavy-duty period of writing. Do you record TV shows? It’s [...]
FutureMe–The one who met her dissertation deadlines
Posted in academic, accountability, coaching, commitment, deadline, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, finishing the dissertation, focus, following through, Lizard Brain, perseverance, planning, resources, self-discipline, self-sabotage, tagged accountability, check up on yourself, dissertation and accountability, do what you said you would do, focus, praise, support on October 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How do you keep focused on your writing goal? Our Lizard Brains can make it all too easy to let a goal slip, and with each deadline or marker you miss, it’s that much longer before you finish your dissertation. FutureMe at www.futureme.org is a helpful tool for accountability as you write your dissertation. You can [...]
Be of Good Cheer on a Snowy Writing Day: 10 Tips for Holiday Eating
Posted in email, family, fun, happiness, joy, laugh, writing, writing breaks, tagged poking fun at holiday eating, snow days and goofy emails, snow days and writing on December 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here on the East Coast of the U.S., it is snowing and snowing and blowing. There’s no sign of snow removal on my cul-de-sac, so it’s time to write. How about you? I hope you’re having a good writing day. It’s also a time for goofy emails. A relative who can always make me laugh [...]
How to Re-start Your Dissertation after a Vacation, Part I
Posted in academic, anxiety, coaching, commitment, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, getting started, planning, re-start, restarting, time management, write more easily, writing, tagged plan ahead for returning to the dissertation, returning from vacation, starting to write after a vacation on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Re-entry into most any job after a vacation is hard, but sometimes coming back to your diss can be particularly punishing. Your mind is still in that faraway (or close by) place, and you’re feeling not only unsettled, but more than a little resistant to the writing. Next time—plan for your return. If you’re taking [...]
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 [...]
Is Email Sucking the Life Out of You and Robbing You of Writing Time?
Posted in academic, boundaries, coaching, commitment, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, getting started, planning, productivity, Smart Tips, start writing, writing, tagged avoiding email, emailing all day, getting started each morning, writing each morning on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dissertation writers, professional writers and editors, bloggers–we all fight the good fight against email. Seth Godin, famous marketing blogger, asks, “Do you spend your day responding and reacting to incoming all day… until the list is empty? “ He says that unlike the days when he could sort his mail in minutes the “old-fashioned way,” [...]
How to Finish Your Dissertation: Don’t Let Complacency Sabotage You
Posted in academic, coaching, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, email, gremlin, mental toughness, momentum, perseverance, procrastination, productivity, self-deception, self-sabotage, Smart Tips, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged complacency, dissertation sabotage, fear of success, overly confident, perseverance, procrastination on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Three Quick Fixes to Jolt You into Action on Your Dissertation
Posted in academic, coaching, deadline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, email, goals, mental toughness, planning, regret, self-sabotage, Smart Tips, 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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
