Executive Functioning
This page is dedicated to strategies to help you with your executive functioning. We include a range of apps, frameworks, and even memes so that you can picture your bad decision next time you have the chance to avoid it.
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Notetaking, Meetings, Lectures
Time Management
Motion AI-generated schedules inform when to do your task based on the deadlines and urgency you set per task. It also learns when you tend to check off your tasks to make more realistic schedules.
Calendly has less buggy meeting management functions compared to the embedded invites in Motion. It can help you cut down on the energy you use for back-and-forth emails.
With the premium version of Calendly you can make more events, so you can send your friend a link with separate hours.
It also allows your friends who struggle with executive functioning to cancel as many times as they like and be able to reschedule plans themselves!
Attention and Impulse Control
- Mantra: “Repeat or evolve”
Remembering To…
Stay Hydrated This is actually typically a sensory issue rather than executive functioning. If regular water is not stimulating enough, you might not drink it. Add a sensory effect by:
- Getting a water carbonation machine (discount Soda Stream)
- Making sure you always have cold water in the fridge
Take Meds Try Timer Caps.
Low On Spoons
- Scheduling a meal kit service when you expect to have less spoons (during finals).
Communication and Executive Dysfunction
- Thank others for their patience, but do not apologize.
- “I can complete tasks on time and with neurotypical standards/formats. However, I cannot do everything on time by neurotypical standards.”
Think of This When…
Avoid These
- Just be aware that cannabis use has been shown to have an adverse impact on long run executive functioning, especially for those who began using it as a teenager before one’s brain has finished developing.