strategies to overcome obstacles to writing IV
This will be the last time that I will revisit this question of "how do I overcome the obstacles that I make and have to academic writing."
One thing that I haven't put down his perhaps the biggest thing that might be a strategy to overcome obstacles to writing. Ultimately, it's rather simple to conceive, although it may prove to be difficult to execute. Writing success, actual publication, regular rather than intermittent publication seems to me like it would prove to be more of an "obstacle breaker" than perhaps anything else I could conceive of in terms of rules or strategies. I am starting.
Before I go into the actual writing tasks that are unrelated to this philosophical writing task, I will look back over the rules that I've made in previous three posts and see how I'm doing on those regulations. I feel like I've been doing okay, but let me pause and look to see how I'm doing
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On the first day I decided to promise to regulate my "starting rituals." I seem to be doing okay with that, but it still quite hard – I remember my father describing -- after quitting smoking -- how he was still reaching in his shirt pocket for a pack of cigarettes 10 years after "kicking the habit." I wonder if those "procrastination habits" will be something like that. Will they be like the shape of the whiskey bottle to an alcoholic? [Forgive me for the inappropriate metaphor]
On the second day, I was hoping to meditate before I started writing. I didn't work out nearly as well as I had hoped it would. Too late now for today, but I will do my best tomorrow to start in the right emotional and psychological state of mind in order to clear my head of all the other crap. But I did do it on one day, it seemed to help make things work better. Today, however, Monday morning, it's a madhouse here, and I find myself walking around with my headset on dictating into the computer everybody gets ready for coming week. Perhaps this time block will not always work…
Finally, I am hoping to get to bed early, or at least on time… Unfortunately, I haven't done very well at that at all. Last night was okay, but the night before was miserable in terms of staying up late and not getting to sleep… However, actually did a decent job writing yesterday, although it wasn't on the schedule :-(.
Looking back on today's writing, a lot of words fell out on the page in less time. That is certainly one of the goals of this project.
It was 25 minutes today. This is last day; so I am going to add one last rule – continuing adding minutes, but breaking those minutes into the Pomodoro until I can be working on the order of two hours every day.
This will be the last time that I will revisit this question of "how do I overcome the obstacles that I make and have to academic writing."
One thing that I haven't put down his perhaps the biggest thing that might be a strategy to overcome obstacles to writing. Ultimately, it's rather simple to conceive, although it may prove to be difficult to execute. Writing success, actual publication, regular rather than intermittent publication seems to me like it would prove to be more of an "obstacle breaker" than perhaps anything else I could conceive of in terms of rules or strategies. I am starting.
Before I go into the actual writing tasks that are unrelated to this philosophical writing task, I will look back over the rules that I've made in previous three posts and see how I'm doing on those regulations. I feel like I've been doing okay, but let me pause and look to see how I'm doing
.
.
.
On the first day I decided to promise to regulate my "starting rituals." I seem to be doing okay with that, but it still quite hard – I remember my father describing -- after quitting smoking -- how he was still reaching in his shirt pocket for a pack of cigarettes 10 years after "kicking the habit." I wonder if those "procrastination habits" will be something like that. Will they be like the shape of the whiskey bottle to an alcoholic? [Forgive me for the inappropriate metaphor]
On the second day, I was hoping to meditate before I started writing. I didn't work out nearly as well as I had hoped it would. Too late now for today, but I will do my best tomorrow to start in the right emotional and psychological state of mind in order to clear my head of all the other crap. But I did do it on one day, it seemed to help make things work better. Today, however, Monday morning, it's a madhouse here, and I find myself walking around with my headset on dictating into the computer everybody gets ready for coming week. Perhaps this time block will not always work…
Finally, I am hoping to get to bed early, or at least on time… Unfortunately, I haven't done very well at that at all. Last night was okay, but the night before was miserable in terms of staying up late and not getting to sleep… However, actually did a decent job writing yesterday, although it wasn't on the schedule :-(.
Looking back on today's writing, a lot of words fell out on the page in less time. That is certainly one of the goals of this project.
It was 25 minutes today. This is last day; so I am going to add one last rule – continuing adding minutes, but breaking those minutes into the Pomodoro until I can be working on the order of two hours every day.
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