Now that Halloween is over, it hasn’t taken long for me to eat all of the left-over chocolate-covered raisins that the trick-or-treaters rejected in favor of Snickers.
Having all of these tidy little packages of candy in my house once again reminds me of the dangers of home. It’s just tempting fate to stay in your [...]
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Writing a Dissertation? Don’t Try This at Home
Posted in discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, getting started, perseverance, planning, productivity, self-sabotage, start writing, strategies, tagged dissertation coaching, make deals with yourself, self-sabotage, write first before getting comfortable, write first each morning, writing the dissertation at home on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Use Humor to Re-group and Start Your Dissertation Writing Session: Practice Resiliency
Posted in coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, flow, getting started, laugh, momentum, re-group, re-start, regrouping, resilience, restart writing, restarting, self-sabotage, start writing, using your strengths, write more easily, tagged dissertation, dissertation coach, keep the writing going, keep your perspective, playfully firm self-discipline, practice resiliency, re-starting dissertation writing, Resiliency, self-sabotage, sense of humor, writing on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How was your writing today?
You couldn’t get a flow going today during your writing session?
Some writing sessions are like that–you start off more slowly, maybe because you’re tired, it’s the end of the week, or maybe because you didn’t prime the pump, didn’t try to induce a good mood, or didn’t practice resiliency before you [...]
Do You Use the All-or-Nothing Distortion?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, coaching, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, flow, getting started, gremlin, momentum, perfectionism, procrastination, re-start, reasons for not writing, restart writing, self-sabotage, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged ABD, acknowledging success, all-or-nothing distortion, distorting experience, flow, perfectionism, procrastination, self-sabotage on September 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Even though you may have a stated intention of working on your dissertation and making steady progress, you do everything and anything to sabotage yourself. Could this be you?
If this sounds familiar, read on.
A dissertation client is having great trouble moving forward. Every week when we talk, there’s been another obstacle which has kept her [...]
Caught up in Fearing Failure, Avoiding Risks, Watching Time Slip Away?
Posted in Smart Tips, academic, coaching, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, perfectionism, procrastination, writing, tagged dissertation, fear, fear of failure, mental toughness, perfectionism, perfectionist, procrastination as protection, self-sabotage, writing on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A dissertation client told me that that a couple of years ago her professor suggested they plan to publish together. But the graduate student could never get herself to devote even a day to work on this project. She kept putting it off. Now she feels like it will never happen. And why would the [...]
What if Dissertation Writers Had the Focus of Tiger Woods?
Posted in academic, anxiety, brave, coaching, courage, determination, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, fears, focus, getting started, mental toughness, momentum, re-group, re-start, self-sabotage, struggling, top strengths, using your strengths, writing, writing, dissertation, tagged flow, mental toughness, self-regulation, self-sabotage on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I’m in line at the grocery, I read the latest celeb magazines. If there’s an article about Tiger Woods, I’ll read about his wife and his yacht and, of course, his relationship with his father, but I’ve never been interested enough to take the time to see what are golf’s and Tiger Woods’s hold [...]
How I Avoid Writing: Procrastinating on the Dissertation
Posted in academic, coaching, discipline, dissertation coach, dissertation writing, distractions, following through, goals, mental toughness, perseverance, procrastination, re-group, restart writing, self-deception, self-sabotage, top strengths, writing, writing breaks, tagged dissertation, procrastination, self-regulation, self-sabotage, writing on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This morning as I was reading a paragraph here and there in Newsweek, I swear I saw the words “put off finishing his dissertation” rise off the page in 3-inch-tall block letters, or so it seemed.
Procrastinating on one’s dissertation isn’t unusual, but to get your name in Newsweek because what you’re doing to procrastinate is [...]
