What are the Most Important Time Management Tools? If you find yourself searching for time management tools to help you increase productivity and spend your time efficiently, you’ve come to the right place. You may be someone who misses deadlines, waits until the last minute for urgent tasks, or loses track of time while scrolling…
5 Ways You Can Learn How To Be Productive Have you been wanting to learn how to be productive but don’t know where to start? Is finishing your to-dos always on your to-do list? At EFC, we teach people executive functions skills that can help anyone to be productive every day. If you aren’t familiar…
When it comes to the question, “why are executive functions important?” I think Harvard summarizes it best: “A new evidence base has identified a set of skills that are essential for school achievement, for the preparation and adaptability of our future workforce and for avoiding a wide range of population health problems.” The statement by…
When considering if you need a counselor, it’d be impossible to list out every possible reason people knew they needed one. However, executive functions are a key place to start. Executive functioning challenges can make it difficult to stay on task, schedule your days, or control your emotions. This can affect your work life and result in…
What Does An Executive Functioning Coach Do? An executive functioning coach helps students and adults find more organization, structure, and motivation in their daily tasks and goals. We focus on exploring which executive functions skills are established and which ones need more work. Then, we provide executive function skills training on every skill but emphasize the…
Everyone has at some point of their life asked, “how to stop procrastinating?” Sometimes we are on top of it and then out of nowhere we lose motivation. There might even be some signs of avoidance behavior. We will do anything to avoid what we have to get done. Call it dread or avoidance anxiety, but when we start…
Selecting a tutoring service can be a very hard process. It is a balance of finding someone professional, but friendly. This individual will be working with your child on subject tutoring, probably a subject they are not very excited to learn. You want to find that “tutor near me” who can help your child grow and become independent. Maybe…
Learning how to stay motivated and start any project is typically the biggest challenge for a lot of people. We will talk about staying motivated or increasing motivation in future blogs, but starting is always hard. Starting may be hard because we of an inherent fear when it comes to starting something new or hard. You could…
Whether you are a parent preparing a tutoring program for your child, a new tutor learning the trade, or considering one of our programs, we hope this helps. Running a great program doesn’t require a teaching degree or any subject tutoring certifications. Providing a good program especially in this age of virtual learning requires intuition, creativity, and a little patience. When…
What do you look for in a college counselor? That is a really good question. Even though we offer college counseling services at EFC, the choice of whom to work with is ultimately up to our families. So, here is our honest checklist about selecting a college counselor. Selecting A College Counselor Checklist #1: They Know Their Trade This…