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 [...]
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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 »
Be Inspired: Execute a Smoking-Hot Dissertation Boot Camp
Posted in acting as if, boot camp, coaching, commitment, courage, determination, discipline, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, goals, mental toughness, motivation, perseverance, showing up, using your strengths, tagged being in the zone, focusing, inspired by Winter Olympics, smoking-hot and smoking-fast athletes, smoking-hot Dissertation Boot Camp on February 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How inspired are you by watching the Winter Olympics? What a thrill to see the moguls skiers come down the slope so fast it seems as if the screen must be on fast-forward. Smoking fast, the commentator says. We figured, without hearing the commentator say it, that these skiers are “on the edge of out of [...]
A Timer Can Sharpen Your Focus and Increase Writing Productivity
Posted in discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, focus, getting started, planning, productivity, restart writing, restarting, self-sabotage, Smart Tips, structures, time management, write more easily, writing breaks, tagged efficient writing, make time to write, productivity, scheduling breaks, sharpen focus, time management, timers, writing tools on February 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Several of my dissertation coaching clients use timers on their computers to help them get started with a writing session, to stay focused, and to stick with their work. It also helps them to stop at a pre-determined time. In that way, they don’t stay at the writing too long and yet they stay long [...]
Time for Your Dissertation: Sometimes Less Is More
Posted in academic, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, focus, getting started, time, time management, Uncategorized, write more easily, writing habit, tagged dissertation coaching, Free-writing, less is more, making use of your time, Write First Thing on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another convert to “Write First Thing”–hurray! One of my coaching clients said that he tried the method of getting up half an hour earlier than usual and working first-thing on some dissertation free-writing. He said it worked great for him. He got a lot of work done, not in those half-hours per se, but in [...]
Drama in Your Life? How Do You Refocus and Get Back to Producing Text?
Posted in academic, anxiety, dissertation coach, distractions, focus, life, re-group, re-start, regrouping, restart writing, restarting, setbacks, using your strengths, tagged distractions, emotional responses, life getting in the way of writing, setbacks, small problems, using your strengths on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are you negotiating some of life’s bits and pieces today in order to write your dissertation? Has something gotten to you today or this week? It happens. We’re knocked about every day, but we keep going, even with pressures about fitting everything into our schedules, uncertainties about jobs, and, if you commute to work, traffic. [...]
