Do You Struggle With Procrastination in Graduate School? As a 2nd year student in graduate school I felt like a fraud in a conference room filled with PhDs from academia and industry. My thesis supervisor had just agreed to present our research to our collaborators in industry to demonstrate how we had used their funding. […]
Perfectionism Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Thesis or PhD
Perfectionism In Your Thesis Writing Is the Enemy of Progress “I can’t stop doing literature search!” said Claire while we were eating lunch, just a month before her thesis deadline. “I want to start writing, but I always feel like I need more articles,” she sighed. Claire was not alone in her struggle to finish the literature […]
The Time Paradox of Dissertation Writing
Why Is It So Hard To Write Your Dissertation When You Have “All Day”? “I was writing more when I was stealing time from my research!” my student, Petra confessed. She was getting her PhD in Biology, and struggling to pull her data into a cohesive Dissertation. In hopes of finishing by the end of […]
A Simple Tool to Get 500+ Words On the Page Even If You Have Writer’s Block
Why Traditional Advice For Dissertation Writing Doesn’t Work I had a dollar for every time someone had told me to “glue my butt to the chair” until I got a certain word count in my Dissertation, I would be flying on a private jet to Fiji right now! The sad reality was that gluing my […]
5 Steps to Stop Distractions From Derailing Your Thesis Writing
How Do You Deal With Distractions During Thesis Writing? Distractions can make your life seem out of control. Even if you lock yourself in a room to focus on your thesis writing, distractions in your mind will always be there. Thoughts pop into your head about your career, the bills, your family, and that thing […]
5 Steps to Crush Your Thesis Deadlines When You’re Superbusy
You Can Finish Your Thesis Even When You Are Spread Really Thin… Boom! Everything went black for a few seconds… What happened? When I opened my eyes I was lying on my back on top of a fresh pile of snow. It was almost 9 pm and I must have slipped and fell on an ice […]