The smart but scattered guide to success

how to use your brain's executive skills to keep up, stay calm, and get organized at work and at home

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The smart but scattered guide to success

how to use your brain's executive skills to keep up, stay calm, and get organized at work and at home

  • 21 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading

"Meeting a huge demand, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (authors of the bestselling Smart but Scattered books focusing on kids and teens) now provide a state of the art resource specifically geared to adults. Drs. Dawson and Guare offer expert guidance for boosting executive skills--the core brain based abilities needed to get more done with less stress. Readers will be drawn in by realistic examples, self quizzes, and science based tools for strengthening time management, organization, emotional control, and more. And what you can't change, you can work around! The book is packed with simple yet effective strategies for maintaining focus, conquering clutter, staying on top of work demands, and taming the chaos of family life. Numerous worksheets and forms (which purchasers can download and print in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size) help readers customize the strategies to fit their needs.

Dawson and Guare offer guidance for boosting executive skills-- the core brain based abilities needed to get more done with less stress. They provide simple yet effective strategies for maintaining focus, conquering clutter, staying on top of work demands, and taming the chaos of family life.

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English
Pages
294

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: I. Understanding the Executive in Your Brain
1. Are You Smart, Scattered, and Stressed?
2. Your Executive Skills Profile
3. Managing Executive Skills by Modifying the Environment
4. Improving Your Executive Skills
II. Understanding the Impact of Executive Skills in Your Daily Life
5. Executive Skills in the Workplace
6. Executive Skills in the Home
7. Executive Skills in Relationships
III. Strategies for Individual Executive Skills
8. Controlling Impulses: Response Inhibition
9. Keeping Track of It All: Working Memory
10. Being Cool: Emotional Control
11. Avoiding Procrastination: Task Initiation
12. Staying Focused: Sustained Attention
13. Defining a Path: Planning/Prioritizing
14. Clearing Clutter: Organization
15. Sticking to the Schedule: Time Management
16. Shifting Gears: Flexibility
17. Learning from Experience: Metacognition
18. Reaching the Finish Line: Goal-Directed Persistence
19. Rolling with the Punches: Stress Tolerance
IV. Looking Ahead
20. Aging without Losing Your Edge: A Prescription for Preserving Executive Skills
Resources.
Understanding the executive in your brain
Understanding the impact of executive skills in your daily life
Strategies for individual executive skills
Looking ahead.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and index.

Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
158.1
Library of Congress
BF637.S4 D389 2016, BF637.S8

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 294 pages
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27200251M
Internet Archive
smartbutscattere0000daws_z9c8
ISBN 10
1462516963, 1462522793
ISBN 13
9781462516964, 9781462522798
LCCN
2015044846
OCLC/WorldCat
907965893

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