Description
Book SynopsisThis book is your own personal PhD coach. Itâs not just about surviving your PhD, itâs about thriving in the experience. Taking a unique self-coaching approach, this book will enable you to understand how to navigate your way through the various challenges posed by PhD study with resilience, self-sufficiency, and the determination to succeed.
Each chapter contains self-coaching challenges so that you can discover what works for you and generate fresh ideas to enable you to move forwards, banish self-doubt, bust procrastination, and realise your full potential to make the most of your PhD experience.
Your PhD Coach will enable you to:
- Build resilience and self-leadership
- Challenge yourself to be focused and achieve aspiring goals
- Find the right balance and nurture stronger relationships
- Develop your confidence, creativity and motivation
Using a coaching philosophy that helps you realize your own solutions and develop your own strategies to move f
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Setting firm foundations: say ‘Yes!’ to the perfect PhD day
Chapter 1: Introduction to Part One and… How are you today?
Chapter 2: Throwing rocks before your PhD: Learning to manage your inner critic
Chapter 3: What’s the point of this path? Finding value in your perfect PhD
Chapter 4: Where is the pathway heading? Tapping into your bigger picture
Chapter 5: Bringing it all together: Saying ‘Yes!’ to the perfect PhD day
Part 2: Core themes in the PhD experience
Chapter 6: Out of control? In pursuit of better balance
Chapter 7: When self-doubt creeps in… How to find the superhero within
Chapter 8: Overwhelmed or underwhelmed? Finding enjoyment through your goals
Chapter 9: Stuck in a rut? Being creative
Chapter 10: Distracted? Giving yourself permission to re-find your focus
Chapter 11: On your own? Building better relationships
Chapter 12: Too many knockbacks and brick walls? Building your PhD resilience
Chapter 13: The leader in you? Finding the authenticity to write your own story
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