The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills--the core brain-based abilities needed to maintain focus, meet deadlines, and stay cool under pressure. In this essential guide, leading experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare help you map your own executive skills profile and take effective steps to boost your organizational skills, time management, emotional control, and nine other essential capacities. The book is packed with science-based strategies and concrete examples, plus downloadable practical tools for creating your own personalized action plan. Whether on the job or at home, you can get more done with less stress.

See also the authors' Smart but Scattered parenting guides, plus an academic planner for students and related titles for professionals. 

• Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential
• Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
• Smart but Scattered--and Stalled: 10 Steps to Help Young Adults Use Their Executive Skills to Set Goals, Make a Plan, and Successfully Leave the Nest
• BRAIN HACKS: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning
• The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition: Write It Down, Get It Done
• Adult Executive Functioning Workbook: Simple effective advice along with easy to follow checklists.
• Executive Function Difficulties in Adults: 100 Ways to Help Your Clients Live Productive and Happy Lives
• Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning
• Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
• Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)