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You know that feeling: you sit down to work, open your laptop, and somehow end up 20 minutes deep into a YouTube rabbit hole about how to fold fitted ...
You sit down to write. Coffee's hot, phone's on silent. Five minutes later you're reading about a celebrity scandal, or checking email for the third t...
You sit down, open your laptop. Three minutes later you're checking Slack, then email, then your phone. It's not that you're lazy—it's that your brain...
You've heard about Distraction Mapping Sessions—maybe from a colleague, a conference talk, or that one Substack newsletter you actually read. The idea...
You've done the mapping. Maybe you used sticky notes, a whiteboard, or some app. Now you're staring at what looks like a plate of spaghetti — lines cr...
Sensory mapping sessions are supposed to be private, messy, alive. You sit with a blank page—digital or paper—and let your body's whispers become line...
You sit down for your Distraction Mapping Session. Five minutes in, your mind is a blizzard of half-thoughts—effort emails, grocery lists, that thing ...
You stare at your Distraction Map from the last session. A bright orange trail snakes away from your intended path — but it loops back. That's not a d...
You sit down to write. Your phone is across the room. Your browser has one tab. You breathe. And then—without warning—your mind is calculating the exp...