Tip #15: Sleep The brain needs sleep. Getting enough sleep is critical for executive functioning. Typical adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep a night. Children and adolescents do best ...
To maximize your executive functioning–exercise! We all know that exercise is good for your body, but it’s also crucial for brain health. Setting a goal to exercise more is often on people’s ...
Women have a lot on their plates and, as we age, demands on time management only increase. It is easy to be stretched thin between work, family, friends, and community. Personal goals ...
Our brain, the center of our executive functioning, requires fuel. It takes energy to power our brain and that energy originates in food. That’s why I include planning menus as part of ...
I always tell clients that they won’t to use their time-management tools if they aren’t planning the space and time to do things that are fun, that restore your energy, your spirit, ...
Folks challenged by the executive functioning skill of time management really struggle with estimating how long tasks take. Since their brain doesn’t register the passage of time, they are often guilty of ...
My time management tip for today isn’t exactly about time, it’s about the “stuff” in our lives. I firmly believe that the things we own, both in our home and work environment, ...
As we all know, January is the traditional time to make a list of resolutions to improve our behavior. For those with executive functioning challenges, it may be a time to make ...
For me, paper organization was the last skill I mastered as I got control of my executive functioning deficits. I found my inspiration in David Allen’s Getting Things Done. His best advice: ...
A participant in my recent workshop to teach professionals to teach executive functioning skills using my Seeing My Time program e-mailed me a good question. She has a family with two children ...
October 23, 2010 Association of Educational Therapists 32nd Annual Conference, Berkeley, California Title: Teaching Executive Functioning Skills: Time Management Tools for Students Time: 90 minutes Goal: Learn how to teach externalize time ...
Do your students struggle to keep track of their assignments? Is your house a maze of piles? Do you hustle and hustle and always end up late? During the Seeing My Time ...
When dedicated professionals dream big, even the sky can’t slow us down. Professionals in the education field are already propelling Seeing My Time in a multitude of directions – thriving private practices, ...
The other day at about 2:15 in the afternoon, my twenty-year-old client’s head was drooping lower and lower to the table. He yawned and apologized, saying “I’m just so tired.” Our session ...
Lately I’ve been impressed by some split families who’ve come to my table to rally around their struggling child. It is inspiring to have these parents set aside their differences for the seven ...