Chatting with one of my profs the other day, I realized that to finish my dissertation this year and do all the other things I want to do (i.e. teach, organize events, work on crrs website, committee work, go to the gym, socialize, learn Hebrew, etc), I’ll need to start getting up at 4 in the morning. I can see myself waking up that early and working only on my dissertation before the day begins. I’ll start with 5 am this coming week and see how it goes.
Recently read a classic book on dealing with procrastination (not to imply that you procrastinate… but Big Projects like dissertations cry out for procrastination). It’s “The Now Habit” by Neil Fiore. Fiore has done a lot of work with doctoral students in your situation. He’s got a whole chapter on one of them.
His perspective on why we procrastination and how to deal with the feelings of resistance and overwhelm was really helpful to me. Some major ahas! actually.
Write on!