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Executive Functioning Skills for ADDults

What is Executive Functioning?

Executive Functioning is an ability which enables a person to see a situation, task, or challenge and figure out what steps are necessary to deal with the situation effectively, complete the task completely and excellently, and rise to the challenge and resolve the issues presented.

For a working man, this means knowing that it is a work day, waking on time, knowing how to dress appropriately for the job, timing breakfast, leaving home in time to fill up the gas tank, and arriving at work looking sharp and ready to start work on time. He knows that he has 2 days to complete the computer model for Project A and 5 days to complete the computer model for Project B. He needs to work on Model A before he can work on Model B because Model A needs to be completed first. He needed the data for Model A and had to interact with Employee D in order to get such data two weeks before Model A was due.

For a working mom (whether you work outside the home or in, you are all working moms), it means knowing how early she must rise in the morning in order to get herself and her children ready for the day. She must consider meals for her children, possibly make lunch, ensure that all homework is completed, backpacks are filled with homework and lunch, knowing what time she must leave to get her children to school and so on. Making lunch means she must have the necessary food items already purchased, allow herself 20 minutes to make lunches, and lunch boxes should have been washed the night before.

Executive functioning in a nutshell is the ability to know what to do throughout the day to complete each task set before you, which tasks need to be done when, what tools are needed for each task, where to find them, and which steps to take to complete each task, when to take those steps in which order, and when the task needs to be completed. Executive functioning is all about details and the ability to see clearly which are important to the task at hand and which are not.

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