Executive Functioning Skills

Figuring out the most relevant information, deciding what to do first.

• Working Memory

• Organization and Planning

• Flexible Thinking

• Task Initiation

Shifting from one idea to another and moving from one task to another.

• Working Memory

• Task Initiation

• Organization and Planning

• Flexible Thinking

The ability to hold on and remember information while manipulating information in our minds.

• Working Memory

• Flexible Thinking

• Task Initiaton

• Organization and Planning

Our capacity to tolerate, understand and manage our feelings in a way that feels healthy and productive.

• Self-Monitoring

• Impulse Control

• Emotion Regulation

• Organization and Planning

Reviewing and Thinking about our actions to figure out how we're doing.

• Self-Monitoring

• Organization and Planning

• Task Initiation

• Flexible Thinking

The ability to stop ourselves from acting on instinct.

• Working Memory

• Flexible Thinking

• Impulse Control

• Task Initiation

Getting started on tasks, particularly ones we don't want to do.

• Impulse Control

• Emotion Regulation

• Flexible Thinking

• Task Initiation

People often tell me I need to chill out or let things go.

• Flexible Thinking

• Emotion Regulation

• Working Memory

• Impulse Control

I have trouble telling how big a deal things are.

• Impulse Control

• Emotion Regulation

• Flexible Thinking

• Organization and Planning

I often forget what step I'm on when doing large projects.

• Task Initiation

• Working Memory

• Impulse Control

• Organization and Planning.