So many of us live in the past. We constantly bemoan the things that "happened to us" and blame them for why we are the way we are today. Let me say this clearly. I'm in no way minimizing some of the atrocities that many of us experience; what I must say however, is
We put a lot of weight on how we "feel" and we make decisions to do, or not to do something based on these feelings. But - do you know you have the power to change how you feel? Now - I'm not talking about a serious issue such as the loss of a loved
One of the biggest challenges a doctoral student face is the ability to balance the responsibility of their studies with the other responsibilities they already have. Most doctoral students already have families, work a full or part time job, among other responsibilities of managing a household and other social activities. My goal for this article,
As I drove to work today, I got to thinking about all the doctoral students that went through the program with me; and something struck me and I thought I'd share it with you. This is especially for those of you going through any kind of rigorous studies - however, for now I speak specifically about the PhD doctoral
Our thoughts are the architects of our destiny; what we think, we create; what we feel, we attract; what we imagine, we become. Therefore in order to make any change, we have to win in our minds before we can win in our lives. Most of us are totally unaware that what we think continuously
Many of us shrink from failure. The minute we fail, we want to give up. We find every reason to make excuses of why we shouldn't continue, shouldn't try anymore - until we just give up. And guess what? With each failure we convince ourselves that we just cannot do this... cannot do that... until
It's really a good feeling when you've completed collecting a lot of data and the temptation now, is to think that it's just a matter of assembling it. But remember, your data is of no real value by itself. The value lies only in how well it is able to answer your research question. It must also demonstrate the significance
The Methodology: How was your data obtained and analyzed? Readers need to know how the data was obtained because the method you chose affects the findings and, by extension, how you likely interpreted them. Unreliable method produces unreliable results and, as a consequence, undermines the value of your interpretations of the findings. There are a
The questions we ask ourselves determine what we focus on. If we are always asking ourselves, "Why does this always happen to me?" - "Why am I always the last to know?" - "Why is it that I never win anything?" - then, guess what? We will inevitable come up with the answers that will
No - I didn't mean to be so comfortable with failure that you stop trying. What I am saying though is that anything you aspire to will most definitely come with it's share of failure. The good thing though is that we learn so much more from failure, than we could ever hope to learn
