Have you given yourself until, say, tonight or tomorrow to write and then your plan is to take a break, send the thing off, go on a holiday? Time to take stock. Stop and breathe. Where are you in the process? You’ve put in time, you’ve written some, and you have a bit more to [...]
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Take Stock, Refuel via Gratitude and Hope, and Prepare for One More Push
Posted in academic, brave, coaching, commitment, courage, deadline, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, goals, grateful, gratitude, hope, motivation, perseverance, re-group, re-start, restart writing, take stock, using your strengths, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged courage, deadline, finishing, gratitude, hope, Taking stock in writing process on December 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Set Your Own Hard Deadline
Posted in academic, choice, coaching, commitment, deadline, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, goals, motivation, planning, re-start, realistic goals, regrouping, start writing, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged deadline, dissertation, holiday, responsibility, start writing on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t wait on others to set your deadline. When someone tells you that if you don’t act now your chance will be gone forever, you will want to act. If you know that you have a hard deadline for submitting writing, you will want to act. You may resist doing the work, but you will want [...]
“Nothing motivates like a hard deadline. . .”
Posted in academic, choice, coaching, commitment, deadline, determination, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, following through, goals, momentum, motivation, start writing, writing, dissertation, tagged deadline, dissertation, momentum, motivation, reaching a goal before a deadline, writing, writing before the holidays on December 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Maybe you have received ads, as I have, proclaiming that “this is your final courtesy reminder about tomorrow night’s teleconference.” Final reminder? Wow! I take note of that, even if I hadn’t thought about going to the teleconference at all. One client who had set this Saturday night before her family’s Christmas as a deadline [...]
