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Executive Functioning Issues

Luftmentsch

Does anyone have any tips for struggling with executive functioning issues?  At work I often have to enter data on multiple databases or spreadsheets at the same time and I often end up forgetting to enter some data on one or other of these.  I've tried writing notes for myself and double-checking everything and I still struggle with it.  I'm just not good at having to do multiple things at once and forget things.  So far my boss has been OK with it (I've been in the job for about fifteen months), but I worry he'll expect me to improve sooner or later.  If anyone has any advice, I would be grateful.

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  • Hi. I have to do some of this type of thing and having an extra screen has made a huge difference, especially for copying and pasting. If I have data from hard copy to enter I sometimes just take a photograph of it and convert it to a PDF, then have that showing on the 2nd screen so I can see it side-by-side with the document I’m working on and can copy it over. If it won’t copy I can strike it through when I’ve entered it. If it doesn‘t capture properly then I’ll do like mentioned below and use a ruler for each line then cross it off when it’s entered. It doesn’t always work if I’m getting stressed about it all and have to spend ages checking it but it works most of the time. 

    If you were worried you’d missed some data you could use the find option and check it’s been entered? I do that sometimes and it helps me.

  • in reply to Clumsywitch

    Thanks, I'll bear it in mind, although I'm not sure how easy it would be given the size of my desk (very small) and the layout of the office (also small, so I can't really ask for a bigger desk).

    I do use the find option, yes, although usually to find data already in the system rather than to check if I've entered it.

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