Let's Build Our Executive Function Toolbox for the New Year!

What do working memory, flexible thinking, emotional control, self-monitoring, time management, organizing, impulse control, initiating a task (getting started), planning and prioritizing have in common!!?  If you said these are all skills that we need to function from day to day, you are 100% correct! These are all of those executive function skills that can feel tricky for our busy brains sometimes! We don't all struggle with every skill, but I would love for you to highlight the skills above that may feel tricky for you to tackle from day to day!  In this episode, we are jumpstarting this conversation about tricky executive function skills that we need to build a customized toolbox for! These are skills that need to be exercised and trained to grow stronger! It will never be a one size fits all either. You must look at the challenge areas and build your toolbox based on trying different tools and strategies and discovering what works best for you personally!!  This series will help you begin your journey of discovering different tools and strategies in the different areas of struggle so you can begin to trial and error what works best for you from day to day! Practice make progress and it's super important to trial tools and strategies when you are regulated emotionally!  You will meet and hear from my newfound friend, Executive Function Coach, Carrie Bonnett. She shares ger expertise in this area as we get our series started! You can find Carrie at www.carriebonnett.com and discover all of the awesome resources/support she has to offer too!  Visit me at www.katelynmabry.com to share your thoughts on this series with me or if you'd like to share a personal audio clip on the show to share which executive function tools are helpful for you too!  Below is an executive funtion wheel created by another ADHD Coachin who lives in Europe (hense the spelling differences;) This is a great, simplified resource to see each skill and identify which of them you'd like to practice use tools and strategies to grow in!  Executive Function Wheel