When you schedule it in, keep the appointment.

The corollary to yesterday’s posting- that you should schedule time to work on your dissertation and put it into your appointment book- is that you need to keep the appointment you’ve scheduled. Yes, some weeks, life will intrude and your best laid plans won’t work out at all like you thought. Unless you live in perpetual crisis mode (and hopefully you don’t) there will be weeks where you have the time to work- and only need to follow through on your commitment to yourself and actually sit down and do the work. For better or worse, only you can finish the dissertation, and it won’t get done if you keep breaking appointments with yourself to work on it.

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