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Post 12: When Emotion Blocks Execution: Reading What Your Parts Are Really Saying
Emotions signal safety, capacity, and alignment concerns. Here's the four-step diagnostic and the dialogue process to move through your emotional blocks.
Mark Dombeck, Ph.D
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Post 11: Practical Parts Work for Executive Function: Techniques and Application
Recognize your parts through five channels: thoughts, behaviors, sensations, emotions, and context. Communicate with curiosity rather than control to build alliance through respect.
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Post 10: Parts Work For Executive Function: Building Alliance Instead of Waging War
Your parts are are stronger than you, intelligent and have legitimate concerns. Treat them with respect and care and they might stop blocking you.
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Post 9: The Neuroscience of Motivation and Emotion: Why We Want One Thing But Do Another
Distinct brain systems independently predict situations, causing ambivalence. Helping these parts work together stops them from fighting for control.
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Post 8: Building Your System: Backlogs and Daily Todos
Backlogs store everything, enabling planning, while daily lists narrow focus to only what matters now to keep you focused on today's work.
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Post 7: Time Management for Planning: Aligning Your Schedule with Natural Rhythms
Align your work schedule with your natural energy rhythms to maximize productivity and dramatically reduce the burden of self-regulation and stress
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Post 6: The Daily Aiming Ritual: Putting Prioritization into Practice
The Daily Aiming Ritual strategically aligns your tasks with your priorities by prompting you to structure your execution targets in advance.
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Post 5: The Art of Prioritization: Deciding What Matters Now
Four prioritization frameworks combined with embodied awareness help you clarify what truly matters when you're overwhelmed by competing tasks.
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Post 4: Task Analysis: Slicing the Bread Loaf
Overwhelming projects become manageable when broken down into simpler tasks. Here's how, step by step.
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Post 3: The Cognitive Foundations of Executive Function
Your working memory, processing speed, attention, and memory integration form your cognitive foundation. Understanding them is the key to sustainable productivity.
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Post 2: The Zoom Out, Zoom In Dance: A Foundation for Better Productivity
Your brain's planning and execution networks operate in opposition. Separating them transforms your productivity.
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Post 1: Understanding Executive Function: What It Is and Why It Matters
Executive function makes it possible for us to make plans, manage our emotions, and stay on track despite distractions