What if writing each day on your dissertation was a habit? What would you gain from that? Do you know the power of habit? Here are the top 5 reasons for developing a solid, robust, no-kidding daily writing habit: 1. You would not lose time and energy fighting the internal battles of whether you would [...]
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Make Getting Started on Your Writing Easier: Top 5 Reasons to Develop a No-Kidding, No-Fooling Daily Writing Habit
Posted in accountability, commitment, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, getting started, isolated, isolation, mental toughness, momentum, procrastination, research, self-deception, self-sabotage, Smart Tips, take charge, time management, tagged develop a writing habit, dissertation boot camp, fighting internal battles, replace distraction, replace self-deception, write daily on dissertation on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How to Motivate Yourself toward Successful Writing
Posted in academic, anxiety, getting started, motivation, planning, Smart Tips, start writing, success, trusting yourself, tagged calm, dissertation boot camp, prepare to write, trusting on December 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What is successful writing? And how can motivation play a part in your achieving successful writing? You, along with many people, may be celebrating holidays this week. It’s probably been next to impossible for you to do the writing that you had promised yourself you would do. It may also have been quite some time [...]
Find Motivation in a Dissertation Boot Camp with its Elements of a Hard Deadline
Posted in academic, children, commitment, deadline, demands, dissertation writing, family, getting started, mental toughness, perseverance, structures, time management, writing, dissertation, tagged dissertation boot camp, Getting ready for Christmas, hard deadline on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas with the intensity of family, gifts, and travel can blot out everything else. Just Sending Cards can balloon into a fast-paced skit that ends with husband driving wife to the Post Office while wife continues to stamp, apply return label, and seal the final 15 cards that could possibly arrive before Christmas. Christmas is [...]
Dissertation Boot Camp? Use All that January Offers for Your Dissertation Surge
Posted in academic, coaching, commitment, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, New Year's Resolution, re-group, re-start, resources, tagged dissertation boot camp, dissertation coaching, energy, January, marketing, motivation, writing on January 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
January is the time for take-charge measures. Weight loss organizations market heavily in January. Gyms offer great deals. E-newsletters multiply, magazines bulge with tips to make this year different, and Oprah offers all of us a way to control our weight. It makes sense to take advantage of the season, the urge, the energy [...]
Dissertation Boot Camps, Writing Buddies, Dissertation Coaching– The More Support, the Better
Posted in academic, choice, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, isolation, structures, writing, dissertation, tagged coaching, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, support during dissertation process, university awareness, writing, writing buddy, writing group on November 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Whether living hundreds of miles from campus or sitting at a table in the university library, many ABD’s feel isolated from their schools. They voice concerns that their schools rarely reach out to them, other than when tuition is due. The feeling that universities give little or no help to doctoral students during the dissertation [...]
