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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
When you are sure something takes ten minutes, do not argue with yourself. Write down the guess, start a timer, and look at both afterwards.
Do it for the handful of jobs that keep wrecking your mornings: the shower, the email, the tidy before guests. Keep the numbers somewhere you can…
Write the morning out in small steps with times against them and stick it where you will pass it. Bathroom finished by quarter past, clothes on by half past, at the table by twenty to.
A single hour before you leave is far too long an interval to monitor, so you find out you are late only when you are late. Broken into six pieces,…
If the internal clock is not there, put clocks in the room. Somewhere the child can see without turning round, a timer on the desk, one on the wall by where they work.
Think of it as a prop rather than a cure. The aim is not to train an ability into existence before the child is allowed to cope, it is to let them…
Take the Friday deadline and walk it backwards onto the days. What happens Monday, what happens Tuesday, written down where both of you can see it.
Children with this difficulty rarely generate the sequence themselves, and asking them to is asking for the thing that is hard. So supply it, on…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
You did not choose which things hurt you. Where you are tender was set long before you had any say in it, and the only live question is what you do with it now.
This is worth saying out loud between two people, because each usually thinks their own soft spot is embarrassing and the other's is obvious. Try…