When the end of your dissertation is in sight, what will you do? If you’re struggling just to get started on your dissertation, the question “What will you do when the end is in sight” must sound rhetorical at best and silly at worst. Nevertheless, I’ve learned from my clients that minefields await writers when [...]
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Road Blocks to Finishing Your Dissertation: Slacking off, Celebrating too Soon, Determined to be Perfect
Posted in academic, advisor, coaching, discipline, dissertation advisors, dissertation boot camp, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, finishing the dissertation, following through, getting started, mental toughness, perseverance, productivity, reasons for not writing, resilience, restart writing, self-deception, self-sabotage, setbacks, using your strengths, tagged challenges, completing, distractions, finishing the dissertation, letting your strength get you in trouble, messing up, momentum, overwhelm, paralyzed, perfectionist, slacking off, slowing down on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How Are You Doing with Your Summer Writing?
Posted in academic, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, following through, getting started, goals, planning, re-start, resilience, restart writing, structures, tagged finishing the dissertation, making it easier to write, moving into writing, planning ahead on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been teaching this past year, isn’t it a joy not to have to work on lectures or grading? Maybe you have the house/apartment/office to yourself. So–how are you doing on your summer writing? If you are almost ready to get started, but not quite there yet, perhaps you had a project dumped on [...]
Hard Deadlines: Are You Being Squeezed Out of Your Doctoral Program?
Posted in academic, advisor, coaching, deadline, dissertation advisors, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, Smart Tips, strategies, tagged finishing the dissertation, hard deadlines, working with advisor on June 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Is your university enforcing hard deadlines for finishing dissertations? Are you getting any signals from your university about what might be ahead for you? Has your advisor become more critical of your work? Every day I talk with dissertation clients who are trying hard to finish their doctoral degree. This week several people sounded a similarly [...]
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 [...]
