PhD Coaching Blog — Future Direction

This is the time to wish all graduate and doctoral students a very happy and successful time in 2025! Most of you have been working away at your dissertations for many years, and so if you're near the end, I hope this is the year you will finish your program and graduate.  However, if you're not at the end of the journey yet, I hope that 2025 is a year of great progress and positive results.    I haven't posted for a while because, frankly, the last six months of 2024 has been very stressful for me  personally, with a...

I keep this little statue on my book shelf, and as you can see she's looking out at the world in which I live.  I bought her many decades ago when I was making changes in my life and it suited my mood at the time. Contemplative. Today, I was looking at it again and realized that it's just as relevant now as it was earlier in my life and career.  So I moved it from a lower shelf to give it pride of place on the top shelf to help me focus on what I'm going to do next.  ...