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Time Management Articles:
Holistic Time Management
The Best Things in Life are Free from Technology: A case for holistic time management. A heading of an article in the May 17, 2012 issue of the Toronto Star caught my attention – “Outsourcing Life.” It's true. We're outsourcing all the enjoyable, time-consuming things...
Goal-Directed Persistence
Goal-directed persistence is another important executive function skill. It is the ability to have a goal and follow through until its completion. If you are strong in this skill, you have a good record of achieving goals that you set. You are steady, persistent and...
Do You Have Time for Time Management?
Time management and organization are usually treated as two separate skills, but they are so closely related I will discuss them both together. Organization is the ability to arrange according to a system. If you are neat, detailed and orderly, generally have a place...
How to Get the Important Things Done
If you're trying to figure out how to get the important things done you may have to look at the brain. The Planning/prioritization executive function skill is the ability to determine what is important and what is not, and to create a road map or step by step plan to...
A new way of looking at procrastination
A new way of looking at procrastination is from the perspective of an executive function skill - task initiation. Task initiation is the ability to begin tasks without undue procrastination. If you have no problem digging right into a task at the scheduled time,...
Is your attention span decreasing?
Sustained attention is the capacity to focus on a task despite fatigue or boredom – to be able to maintain attention and not be easily distracted or sidetracked. You are strong in this executive skill if you are able to screen out distractions and complete a task...
People who can’t control their anger really make me mad.
Emotional control, the next executive skill that we’ll discuss, is the ability to manage emotions in order to achieve goals. If you are strong in this skill you are relatively unemotional and cool under pressure. You're not easily sidetracked, resist temptation, don't...
How Memory Effects Our Ability to be Effective
Working memory is the ability to hold information in memory while performing complex tasks such as language comprehension, learning and reasoning. In the middle of a hectic day when you're going from one crisis to another and you still remember that you were supposed...
Think before you act
Understanding response inhibition It would be great if we were all strong in the executive skills listed in last week's blog; but unfortunately few of us are. I have never met anyone who didn't struggle at times with self-control, patience, focus, time management or...