Strategies for dealing with Executive Dysfunction

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Anyone got any?

Always have a notepad with you, use it and check it regularly. Also, a PDA or smartphone is highly useeful for organizing time.

... and for photographing absolutely everything - things you need to remember to do, colleagues, reminders of places you have been, what you eat (if you are dieting etc), sections of maps.

I recently had to check which book titles in one place were correctly listed in another and just photographed the bookcase - there was enough detail in the image to find / correct all the missing titles. I had to make one installation of a computer program behave like another, and photographed the settings dialogue screen.

I'm worst than ever at the moment. I think it may need goals, or passion for something that drives you.

If something takes my fancy you need to hold me back, otherwise I hate even having to consider the chore or mundane activity.

3 tactics I use:
1) Tablet PC: Plan everything out well in advance in a calendar; keep everything on schedule; analyze the results and alter future plans based on success rates of predictions made in the past.
2) Spy Cam: Take quick audio notes or record any food plate; enter the notes into your calendar; review the plates to count calories, etc.
3) Sticky notes & pen: For when the two above don't work; keep in pocket at all times; if needing to write down info during a conversations, make a joke about how you're brain's full from a full day of work, etc.

This isn't perfect, and I still forget information/plans about 20% of the time, but it's wound up being a lot of improvement from before.

I use ye old post-its and a calender program in microsoft outlook and my cell phone.

nope thats why i came to this post because i thought there were some listed here

Also very important, do not lose previously mentioned organizational tools.

You and I are in luck because some people listed some.

Thanks everyone.

...oh, and I absolutely love Google Calendar Sync: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/ ... swer=89955

Sometimes I send e-mails to myself remembring of things to do,

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Last edited by Willard on 01 Sep 2010, 11:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i try a notebook but i hate having things in my pockets if i can avoid it so i rarely take it with me. If i have to go out and do certyain things i often find it best to write it on a scrap of paper. I tend to write down ideas and things i need to do and the list becomes larger and larger and less useful for any one thing. I used to put my ical callenders on my ipod nano for specific times like lectures etc.

To my mind, EF is the reverse: analyzing, simulating, and flow-charting is easy, but executing the plan is frustrating. Sure, if you can't analyze something then you can't plan for it, but with a good and fully detailed project plan in place, all you need to do is follow the steps. And a little cajoling from an outside resource has always helped with that.
Is there another term for what I'm describing?

I think it falls under a wide spectrum and also has different levels of functioning
http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Exe ... ction.html