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Wake up quickly

Steve Pavlina from stevepavlina.com shares some nice tips on waking up in the morning quickly. This can be easily applied when you write your thesis project.

When your alarm wakes you up in the morning, is it hard for you to get up right away? Do you find yourself hitting the snooze button and going right back to sleep?

That used to be part of my daily awakening ritual too. When my alarm would blare its infernal noise, I’d turn the damned thing off right away. Then under the cloak of that early morning brain fog, I’d slowly ponder whether or not I should actually get up: Continue reading »

10 ways to motivate

Recently I’ve conducted a survey asking people what their most pressing question, issue or obstacle is when writing a master thesis. To my discovery, more than 25% of all the people surveyed have problems motivating themselves and focusing on their theses.

This is what just some of the people have said “to stay motivated to do a bit or work everyday”, “…keeping motivation for a long-term goal and avoiding procrastination”, and “procrastination is my killer”. Here is an interesting one: “I want to conduct a research however motivation goes down day by day. But I still like the topic. It just gets so tiring”. Continue reading »