by Harold Taylor | Feb 8, 2016 | Executive Function Skills, Holistic Time Management
Do first things first; but not always priorities. Conventional wisdom tells us that we should not check email first thing in the morning. Instead we should start working on our priority tasks and ignore distractions as much as possible. I have passed this wisdom onto...
by Harold Taylor | Dec 28, 2015 | Executive Function Skills, Holistic Time Management, Procrastination, The Brain
You are not your brain You were going to clean out that cupboard today, but a TV program came on that you didn’t want to miss. And after all, if you miss this program it may never air again – and you can always clean the cupboard tomorrow. In the old days we used to...
by Harold Taylor | Nov 16, 2015 | Executive Function Skills, General Time Management, The Brain
Don’t be so quick to say yes. People who claim they can’t say no are actually saying no when they say yes; because they can’t do everything. There’s only so much time available. And every time they say yes to something, they’re saying no to something else. And that...
by Harold Taylor | Nov 3, 2014 | Executive Function Skills, Stress
Although stress can help us in times where extra strength or speed is needed we now live in a society where we are confronted with too much stress. Because of this we also now see the negative effects of stress on both our emotional and physical lives. Stress can...
by Harold Taylor | Oct 23, 2014 | Executive Function Skills
This is the last article in the series on strengthening your executive function skills, those brain-based skills required to execute tasks – that is, such things as getting organized, planning, initiating work, staying on task, controlling impulses, regulating...
by Harold Taylor | Oct 17, 2014 | Executive Function Skills, Stress
Chuck Martin, Richard Guare and Peggy Dawson, in their book Work Your Strengths, include stress tolerance as an executive skill. I would think that being strong in many of the other executive skills would help you to tolerate stressful situations, including emotional...
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