Many people struggle with planning, the “thinking-ahead” executive function skill. Caught up in the demands of their daily lives, they start to feel like life is just endless work. It makes me both ...

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All Work and No Play? Sharpen the Executive Function Skill of Future Planning – for fun!

It is very typical for one parent in a family to be the Family Calendar Keeper, what I call the Executive Functioning Machine for the whole family. By the time that family ...

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The Family Meeting: Support Executive Functions

I see a lot of parents who seek help for their children’s executive function challenges. To be perfectly honest, sometimes I am more concerned about the parents than I am about the ...

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A Little Known Secret about Teaching Executive Functions

Typically people reach out to me because of specific executive function challenges connected to time management and planning. Those skills are just two pieces in a constellation of executive functions that work ...

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Reaching Your Personal Summit

Fall is just around the corner! We are now accepting registration for our upcoming courses. Our professional courses are hosted online, and are available for optional credit from Seattle Pacific University. We ...

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Fall 2018 Courses at EFS Now Open!

Those who struggle to create and execute planning (also known as future thinking) often have executive function deficits. Everyone has dreams, but without the ability to see, plan and actualize the required ...

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The Difference Between a Dream and a Plan

(Tip #6 of the series 15 Tips to Support Your Brain for Good Time Management, updated 2018) Just like we need an analog clock to see the future space of time, we ...

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Executive Funtioning Tip #6: View the Future, a Month at a Time

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 ...

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Celebrating Our Executive Functions

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 ...

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Who Do You Want to Grow Up to Be?

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 ...

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

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 LD ...

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Getting Past Fear

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 ...

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The Danger of Labels

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 ...

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How to Embrace the Future: Creating a Yearly Plan

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 ...

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Winter Courses Are Open!

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 Jensen, ...

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Two Tips to Lower Holiday Stress