Celebrating Our Executive Functions

Executive Functioning Success in its 8th year, and if I have learned anything, it is that running a business requires a LOT of strong executive function skills! Last week during our staff meeting, where

Who Do You Want to Grow Up to Be?

I will be 65 this summer, and I want to grow up to be my mother-in-law, Selma. I have just returned from a family gathering to honor her 90th birthday. Just about the whole Sklar clan came together for

Special Announcement! Join Our New Executive Function Challenge, Seeing My Time in Action

I’d like to ask a quick question. Can you name some nagging thing that you want or need to get done but you just can’t start it? I think the real question is who can’t name such a task? For

Getting Past Fear

I just returned from presenting at the LDA national conference. Dr. Jerome Schultz, a clinical neuropsychologist at Harvard, gave a keynote with the title: Conquering the Fear Factor: Helping Kids with

The Danger of Labels

People often find me and my work because of a label they have been given. Typically it is “executive function deficits.” Testing or evaluations were sought out to explain “why” a certain

How to Embrace the Future: Creating a Yearly Plan

Ready for my toast to 2018? Raise a glass, or a cup of tea, and say with me: To planning! The ability to plan for the future, and then take the actions required to accomplish those plans, requires the

Winter Courses Are Open!

Have you been interested in taking a course from us in the past? Winter is a great time to do this. Our professional courses are hosted online, and our family group course is held in Portland, Oregon.

Two Tips to Lower Holiday Stress

Have you been feeling stressed with the holiday season approaching? I have just returned from Texas and the conference for the Association of Educational Service Agencies. The keynote speaker was Eric

In celebration the release of our upcoming Seeing My Time® planner this Sunday, November 12th, I created a free webinar called How to Choose the Right Planner for You. The goal of this webinar is to help

Adults Need Help Too | Some Big News!

I got into this whole world of executive functions because of my own brain’s challenges. The origins of Seeing My Time started with developing a different way to think about the relationship between