Checklist: Understanding Your Strengths and Challenges with Executive Functioning

Understanding Your Strengths and Challenges with Executive Functioning

Executive functioning describes your ability to focus attention, switch between tasks, start new tasks, plan, organise, prioritise, make decisions, remember what you are doing, track and manage time, control urges and impulses, and manage your emotions. This checklist will help you identify the areas of executive functioning that you find difficult, using examples from lived experience.

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