Category: Executive Functioning
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What Alcohol is and What it Does to Your Body
What is Alcohol? Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is produced by fermentation and has been used as a general anesthetic, antiseptic, disinfectant, and as a fuel source for lamps, stoves, and internal combustion engines. Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid, it is the active ingredient in alcoholic drinks, as a psychoactive depressant, and the second… Read more
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Is Emotional Intelligence Really a Form of Intelligence?
History of the Debate “The person with the glasses is smart, but the redhead is dumb!” This is a subjective comment (and rude!), yet if heard, we would all understand what the speaker is conveying, namely, that the first person has a high level of intelligence as described by Cambridge Dictionary as, “The ability to… Read more
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Are Mind and Brain the Same?
Does the Brain Produce the Mind? What is the real you? When your body is lying in the morgue, brain within, will you have ceased to exist? The concept of “self” has inspired much thought and debate among people for hundreds of years. The fact that human beings are complex and stand apart from the… Read more
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Become an Organized Person – on Your Terms!
Get Organized with Ease! Have you ever wondered why some people organize their home, schedules, and lives effortlessly while you struggle just to get out the door without forgetting something? Does your dining room table seem to mysteriously grow mountains of paper and miscellaneous accoutrements that seem to cast a condescending glance at you every… Read more
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Never Forget a Name Again!
Stop Telling Your Brain to Forget Names! Have you ever gone to a party, event, or networking meeting where you were introduced to several people only to promptly forget their names? If so, you’re not alone, it happens to most people sometimes if not often! You can say goodbye to that frustrating and often embarrassing… Read more
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Emotions & Feelings: What’s the difference and how to control them
Managing Your Emotions and Feelings Do you ever feel like you are not quite in charge of your inner life? Do you imagine a miniature “mad scientist” sitting at the helm, laughing maniacally at every melt down? Don’t worry, there’s hope! Putting that bully in the backseat where he (or she) belongs can be done… Read more
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Why Learning Becomes a Chore
The Science Behind It Why do preschoolers LOVE to learn and the rest of us don’t? When does our brain become so resistant to education? There are a couple of reasons. One. Babies’ brains can’t not learn. From birth to about two, our brain absorbs everything, like a sponge, just like people always say. No… Read more
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10 Questions for Finding Yourself
Free Your Brain to Find Your Purpose “You must know yourself to grow yourself.” —John Maxwell Did you go off to find yourself only to come back still lost? Yeah, me too. With no map, it’s hard to find what it is we’re looking for. So here are a few things that will get us… Read more
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5 Things that Harm Your Brain
Your Amazing Brain The brain is the most amazing, complex, energy hungry organ in the universe! Your Brain is Your Most Valuable Commodity!!! DID YOU KNOW? “We only use 10% of our brain” is a myth. We use all of our brain all of the time (admittedly, some more efficiently than others). Consider these statistics… Read more
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Improve Executive Functioning
Easy Ways to Improve Your CEO Some researchers have even proposed that executive functioning may better predict success than does IQ. The CEO of our life resides in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of our brain and is primarily responsible for the following functions. As you can see, the PFC plays a significant role in success.… Read more