A Saturday alone is a gift. My husband is gone for the weekend, and I am writing. As a reward to writing first, I promised myself a bit of email-inbox decluttering. To see if I should read it or delete it, I clicked on Gretchen Rubin’s “5 Mistakes I Continue To Make in My Marriage.” [...]
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The cost of keeping score in a relationship
Posted in academic, boundaries, cleaning, decluttering, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, family, finishing the dissertation, happiness, housecleaning, tagged dissertation coaching, dissertation writing, email decluttering, family life, Gretchen Rubin, Jonathan Haidt, relationships, reward for writing, score-keeping, unconscious over-claiming, writers on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to Write? Put a Door between You and Your Kids
Posted in academic, accountability, boundaries, children, determination, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, family, productivity, self-sabotage, writing, tagged assuming control, dissertation writing, juggling writing and children, producing text, productivity, setting boundaries on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent blog, I sang the praises of writing whenever you are taking a plane somewhere. The quiet, distraction-free atmosphere makes flying perfect for writing, or so it seems to me. I heard from a dissenting reader. She said, “I’d love to be able to devote myself to writing while on a plane, but [...]
Mom’s in Maine – Marking Boundaries for Space to Write
Posted in boundaries, children, choice, commitment, determination, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, family, perseverance, planning, reasons for not writing, strategies, time management, writing, writing schedule, tagged assuming control, dissertation writing, juggling writing and children, Maine, making space for writing, producing text, productivity, setting boundaries, summer writing, work identity on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are your children home on vacation from school? And you’re trying to keep an eye on your children, as well as make headway on your writing project? How’s that working for you? During the school year, most academics teach and try to write. Both teaching and writing are critical for an academic’s success and are [...]
Careers outside of academia: The Versatile PhD
Posted in dissertation coach, dissertation writing, higher education, planning, realistic goals, teaching, tagged Academia, Career, careers outside of academia, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, Employment, versatile Ph.D., writing on May 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Are you interested in careers that might not be in academia? Have you found it hard to find people in the academic environment who know about other careers? Just a few days ago I learned from a dissertation coaching client of a great service that may interest you. The Versatile PhD is a free online service [...]
Change failure to success
Posted in academic, beliefs, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, perfectionism, self-criticism, setbacks, tagged change, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, failure, success, writing on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What do you do when you have a plan for a writing project in place, but it goes terribly wrong? What is your response? When you slip up, do those powerful feelings that you’re not allowed to make a mistake overwhelm you? If you tend to be a perfectionist, it can be hard to take [...]
Store Your Dissertation in the Cloud
Posted in academic, dissertation writing, productivity, Smart Tips, time management, write more easily, writing, tagged academic, access to your files, cloud computing, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, DropBox, Smart Tips for Writers, Washington Post, writing on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you work on multiple computers? How are you dealing with the need to make optimum use of your time and to make headway on your dissertation no matter at which one of those multiple computers you find yourself? Have you heard of cloud computing? “Cloud computing isn’t merely on the way; it’s already [...]
Be inspired to write
Posted in brave, courage, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, mental toughness, motivation, tagged bravery, courage to write, dissertation coaching, dissertation writing, inspired to write, motivation to write dissertation, Special Olympics, using quotations, writing on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What inspires you to action? What inspires you to believe? Are you inspired by random quotations? Does the unfamiliar or even familiar quotation give you the evidence you need to trust a writer? Or does it cause you to wonder? Successful writers know that a quotation doesn’t speak for itself. If you’re using a [...]
4 Reasons to Keep Writing Even if You’re Not Sure You’re Going in the Right Direction
Posted in academic, demands, discipline, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, following through, goals, hope, momentum, re-start, reasons for not writing, restart writing, showing up, Smart Tips, strategies, tagged dissertation writing, establishing hope, finishing the dissertation, fixing the writing habit, momentemum, setting goals on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dissertation writers occasionally come to an impasse, unsure of which way to go next. You’ve probably been in this position. You want to move forward, but it may seem prudent to wait—wait to see what your committee chair or mentor says, wait until you have a lot more time to read or go through your [...]
The Big 3: Goals to Pull You Out of Dissertation-Writing Limbo
Posted in academic, accountability, coaching, commitment, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, getting started, goals, motivation, procrastination, realistic goals, reasons for not writing, restart writing, Smart Tips, tagged dissertation writing, getting started, goals, procrastination, reasons for not writing on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can come up with a gazillion reasons for avoiding your dissertation —too tired, too busy, too stressed, too, too, too. And you are all of those things. However, any reason you come up with for not getting to work on your dissertation will seem paltry when put up against the Big 3 Goals: 1. [...]
