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Category Archives: Get things done

Get Your Writing Done by Christmas!

Get Your Writing Done by Christmas!

Do you have a writing project that you need to get done by the end of the year? Would you like to enjoy the Christmas holidays without the weight of it hanging over your head? Me too!!! There are just 11 weeks to go until Christmas! …Are you up for the challenge? Let’s get ourContinue Reading

Video 3: How to Think About Your Writing

Video 3: How to Think About Your Writing

Worrying and feeling anxious about our writing can really slow us down or even paralyse us completely. Learn here how to deal with the negative thoughts about your writing, how to disentangle yourself from them and how to make progress despite of them. If you are feeling disheartened about your paper or thesis, if you have lostContinue Reading

Strategy to help with your deadline #3

Strategy to help with your deadline #3

When you finally manage to sit down to work on your deadline removing all the distractions and interruptions, you might discover with surprise that there is something else that stands between you and your work… Something that slows you down or even paralyses you. These are your negative thoughts about your deadline: I don’t knowContinue Reading

5 ways to make your 2019 more intentional

5 ways to make your 2019 more intentional

If you want to achieve more of what is important to you, if you want to feel more on track and in charge of your year, here are FIVE ways to make your 2019 more intentional! Don’t end up in December 2019 feeling like you’ve “just been busy” the whole year. Make a plan nowContinue Reading

Overwhelmed this December? Here is what to do!

Overwhelmed this December? Here is what to do!

With the end of the year in sight, we tend to pile up more and more work on our plate “to be completed by the end of the year”. In additional to the deadlines that would have been there anyway we also promise ourselves and others to complete things “by the end of December”. ThisContinue Reading