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 in the air, in your head, in your body. Use that challenge to your advantage.
Channel it into your dissertation.
You hear the call to join dissertation groups, to buddy-up, to hire a coach. If you were ever going to sign up for a dissertation boot camp, now could be the time.
A new dissertation coaching client, who long ago stopped taking graduate classes, but, alas, still pays tuition, has decided that she’s in a no-kidding, no-fooling mode. She paid her tuition for the current winter term. But that’s the last time. She has decided that she will defend in April.
Another new dissertation coaching client who for a year had been knocked off her stride by a negative reaction to a proposal has now jumped back into the race.
Use the January fever as a resource. Make your move now.
If you’re interested in dissertation groups or boot camps, I’d like to hear from you. What do you need? What would you do if something were available?
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You’re in my thoughts.
Until next time,
Nancy
Your International Dissertation Coach and Academic Career Coach
nancy @ nancywhichard.com http://www.nancywhichard.com
I see the point. In super-busy periods external help is vital.
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Like the client you mentioned in your post, I’m in my 8th year of the Ph.D and am determined to defend in April, if not sooner. I’ve continued to write since I defended my proposal 3 1/2 years ago but I have yet to produce a chapter that I could call finished. I’ve finally worked my way to an argument that makes sense and intend to marathon it to produce a completed draft by end-Feb/early March. I think it is doable even though I’m teaching 2 new preps this spring – I would really like to be part of a dissertation group or bootcamp that will help me stay accountable and get it done.
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Good idea to organize coaching! Still, lots of guys will simply go to online resources, where they can order ready dissertations written by somebody else. So, they’ll get the burden off their backs. I even know one, where they hire English speaking people to be their writers http://www.academic-research.com. These pay up to USD6 for a page. No wonder why the majority of authors come from third-world countries. Sorry if off the topic!
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