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How I Avoid Writing: Procrastinating on the Dissertation
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....
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What if Dissertation Writers Had the Focus of Tiger Woods?
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,...
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Caught up in Fearing Failure, Avoiding Risks, Watching Time Slip Away?
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...
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Do You Use the All-or-Nothing Distortion?
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...
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Use Humor to Re-group and Start Your Dissertation Writing Session: Practice...
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...
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Writing a Dissertation? Don’t Try This at Home
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...
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Assess Your Dissertation Writing Habits and Make Some Changes: Time for...
Change is happening in the Washington DC area, not just in Congress, but here in my backyard. Spring is here. Tulips are pushing their way above ground. The trees are dropping all sorts of little...
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Is Your Dissertation One of Your Big Rocks?
August can be a time of scrambling A friend who was taking her family on a trip to Europe was rushing to get everything done. She said, “All I have to do is just get to the plane.” I know what she...
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Perfectionism be damned!
Perfectionism gives you a perfect excuse never to write. Perfectionism not only slows productivity, but it also makes sure that your dissertation will never meet your expectations. Put up with the...
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