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The Focus-Drift Loop
Most of us have been taught that a wandering mind is a wasted one.
We’ve built our working lives around the idea that sustained, unbroken focus is the goal — that the ability to concentrate relentlessly is what separates high performers from everyone else. And so we schedule our days in tight blocks, eliminate every distraction we can find, and feel quietly guilty every time our mind drifts somewhere we didn’t tell it to go.
What if that guilt has been costing you more than the daydreaming ever did?
The Focus-Drift Loop is about how the brain actually works — not how we wish it worked, or how productivity culture insists it should. It’s about the neuroscience of mental wandering: why your best thinking often happens away from your desk, why the shower insight is real and not a fluke, and why the relentless push for more focus may be working against the very outcomes you’re trying to achieve.
This isn’t a book about doing more. It’s about understanding the natural rhythm your brain was already trying to follow — and learning to work with it instead of against it.
For anyone who has ever felt behind, distracted, or somehow insufficient despite genuinely trying: the problem may not be your focus. It may be that no one told you the drift was doing something important.
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Getting Work Done When Focus Is Hard
You know what needs to be done. You care about doing it. And still, something stops you.
This book is for the days when your brain won’t cooperate — when the simplest task feels impossibly heavy, when you’ve reread the same email four times and still can’t process it, when you’re watching yourself be stuck and can’t figure out how to move.
It’s not a productivity system. It’s not written by someone who has it all figured out. It’s a practical, compassionate guide for anyone who has ever sat at their desk feeling completely frozen, and needed strategies that actually account for that — rather than assuming you just need a better to-do list.
What you’ll find here are small, realistic approaches to starting, working, and ending the day without shame. Things that work with your brain on the hard days, not just the easy ones.
Book 1 in the Executive Function at Work series.
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Beating Time Blindness at Work
You had a plan for today. You know you did.
You knew what needed to get done. You had enough time. And somehow, somewhere between morning and late afternoon, the hours did something you didn’t expect — and the day ended looking nothing like what you intended.
This isn’t about being disorganised. It isn’t about not caring, or failing to plan, or needing a better system. It’s about something more fundamental: the way your brain perceives time isn’t always giving you accurate information. And when that internal signal is unreliable, no amount of effort or intention will reliably get you where you’re trying to go.
This book is about that. About why time feels slippery even when you’re paying attention to it, why your estimates are almost always too optimistic, and why the tools everyone recommends keep failing you in the same ways. It’s also about what actually helps — not stricter schedules or more detailed planning, but practical approaches that account for how time perception really works, and how to build a working life around that honestly.
If you’ve spent years convinced that your relationship with time says something unflattering about who you are, this book asks you to consider that it says something far more ordinary: that you’ve been working without the right tools.
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Books by Katherine Christie
The Focus-Drift Loop
Getting Work Done When Focus Is Hard
