Do you find yourself making promises to your supervisor or your co-authors to send the paper by a certain date and then “missing your own deadline”? When we promise to deliver the data analysis or the paper draft to someone, and then we forget about it and miss the deadline, we feel really bad about ourselves for not keeping promises, which in turns affects our self-esteem and ability to do good work. Also, we might be promising more than we can realistically accomplish in this amount of time with all other things going on in our work and life.
In today’s video I discuss this phenomenon of making promises and give you two strategies to help you deal with it.
Watch this video to learn how to make it easier for yourself to communicate with your supervisor and co-authors and how to create more realistic and doable deadlines.
In the comments below please share if you also have this habit of making the promises and how is it affecting your mood and feeling overwhelmed. Also share how are the strategies that I’ve shared in the video are helping you to deal with your writing in a more productive way.
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