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

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

Peg Dawson

Book - 2016

"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. Numero...us worksheets and forms (which purchasers can download and print in a convenient 8.

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Subjects
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Time management.
Success.
Published
New York : The Guilford Press [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
Peg Dawson (author)
Other Authors
Richard Guare (author)
Physical Description
vii, 294 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and index.
ISBN
9781462516964
  • Authors' Note
  • Part 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
  • Part 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 and Relationships
  • Part 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
  • Part IV. Looking Ahead
  • 20. Aging without Losing Your Edge: A Prescription for Preserving Executive Skills
  • Resources
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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