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 »
Friendship Boosts Productivity
Posted in academic, alliances, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, isolated, isolation, motivation, positive psychology, reasons for not writing, resilience, top strengths, using your strengths, write more easily, tagged dissertation, dissertation coaching, isolation, positive psychology, productivity, relationships, strengths, writing on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When you’re writing a dissertation, it’s likely that you’ll feel isolated. Many dissertators say how much they long to be back at the university where they could talk with their peers about their ideas and their writing. Too often the isolated dissertation writer feels less than excited about the writing. And productivity suffers. Talking with [...]
To Keep Your Writing Going, Put Your Energy Around What You Want
Posted in academic, boundaries, demands, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, family, momentum, relationships, self-care, Smart Tips, take stock, writing, dissertation, tagged communication, demands, dissertation, focus on what you want, hard choices, keep the writing going, positive focus, reframing, relationships, self-care, writing on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you put your energy around what you want, that’s what you’ll get. One client told me that she had been ambivalent about all of the questions her dad had about her dissertation. But she decided to make a positive out of the parental interest. She saw that her dissertation could be a bridge in [...]
Deprivation Doesn’t Work for Dieting and It Doesn’t Work for Dissertation Writing
Posted in academic, coaching, commitment, creativity, deprivation, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, goals, isolation, life, planning, realistic goals, self-care, time, writing, tagged balance work and fun, dissertation process, isolation, nurture, plan, relationships, self-care, talk through plans, write down plans on November 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of us in the U.S. turned back our clocks this morning, giving us one extra hour. Now you may think I’ll say that everyone writing a dissertation had one extra hour today to write. Not me. Not this time. As I read the Washington Post this morning, a little earlier than I usually do [...]
