Attention Management

Discover the revolutionary antidote to overload and exhaustion. Productivity speaker, trainer, and author Maura Nevel Thomas shows you how to master attention management with practical strategies that make an immediate impact. 

🧠 F*ck Normal You're not broken. You're built differently. For years, you've been told something is wrong with you. Teachers said you weren't "living up to your potential." Bosses questioned your reliability. Partners complained you never listen. Maybe you've asked yourself a thousand times: "Why can't I just be normal?" Here's the truth no one told you: ADHD isn't a disorder—it's a different operating system. And that operating system comes with capabilities that neurotypical brains simply don't have. This is not another book about "coping" with ADHD. It's not about masking who you ...

New York Times bestseller! From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) as genetically based—and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. In this breakthrough...

Achieve a Calmer, More Organized Life in Just Weeks, Even if ADHD Has Always Held You Back Is the chaos of ADHD impacting every facet of your life, leaving you frustrated and overwhelmed? Are you struggling to find tools that truly resonate and transform your daily experiences? Do you yearn for an easier way to focus, manage relationships, and embrace a calmer life? If so, you’re not alone. Many adults with ADHD face the same challenges, but there is hope for change. In fact, learning to manage your ADHD doesn't have to be an impossible task. With the right guidance, you can transform ...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and...

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

If ADHD is interfering with your ability to concentrate and take care of day-to-day tasks, then the strategies in this audiobook are for you. Whether you’re already diagnosed or suspect you have ADHD, understanding its impact is crucial to your health and happiness. Learning how to work with your ADHD makes everyday life so much easier, and it’s possible to harness your symptoms effectively. You can gain control over your ADHD to become more focused and productive when you discover the practical strategies to live mindfully with this audiobook.

Meditation offers, in addition to its many other benefits, a method for achieving previously inconceivable levels of concentration. Author B. Alan Wallace has nearly 30 years' practice in attention-enhancing meditation, including a retreat he performed under the guidance of the Dalai Lama. An active participant in the much-publicized dialogues between Buddhists and scientists, Alan is uniquely qualified to speak intelligently to both camps, and The Attention Revolution is the definitive presentation of his knowledge.

What if being present, focused, and calm wasn’t a personality trait but a brain state? Life Explained is a book about the brain and how it actually works under modern pressure. Drawing from applied neuroscience for performance, Dr. Izzy Justice explains why so many high-functioning people feel overwhelmed, exhausted, distracted, or mentally foggy, even when life looks successful on the outside. This is not another entry in generic brain health books or stress management self-help. It is a grounded, science-based exploration of brain activity, brain structure and function, and how stress, ...

Good time management skills have always been an important factor in professional success, but between ever-evolving collaboration apps and the more recent pandemic-related workplace shifts, the tools and even the principles behind them have changed. In Time Management Essentials, you'll get the comprehensive, up-to-date information you need to manage your time with a values-based approach.

A guide to reclaim your focus and live with presence through practices that embrace your creativity and inspire you to live with awe It’s no secret that our attention is fractured. We look for distraction anytime we have a spare moment or feel bored or uncomfortable. We yearn to be fully...

Attention Pays spotlights on the power of attention and absolute focus. In an on-demand, 24/7 society, where distractions cost millions of people productivity, profitability, relationships, and peace, it's time to pay attention to what matters most. This book includes powerful tips and tricks to increase profitability, describes how to achieve maximum accountability and results, provides strategies to help you productively manage daily tasks, and offers guidance on improving your daily attention and focus.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The 25th Hour is both a revelation and a challenge. Schore redefines mediocrity not as incompetence but as cowardice—the idea you didn’t share, the tough conversation you sidestepped, the decision you let drift. The result is a bracing guide to reclaiming your time...

The most complete and authoritative guide to Gen Z, describing how leaders must adapt their employment, sales and marketing, product, and growth strategies to attract and keep this important new generation of customers, employees and trendsetters. Gen Z changes everything. Today’s businesses...

You’ve probably tried to get things under control more than once. You told yourself you would start earlier. You made a plan. You tried to stay organized. For a few days, it felt like things were finally working. Then something shifted. You lost track of time. You stopped following the plan. And before you knew it, you were back to rushing, stressed, or stuck again. If this keeps happening, it starts to feel confusing. Because it’s not that you don’t care. It’s not that you don’t know what to do. And it’s definitely not that you haven’t tried. So you start asking yourself: Why...

Financial freedom isn't about willpower. It's about designing systems that work with your ADHD brain, not against it. If you're tired of financial advice that ignores how your brain actually processes money, rewards, and time, this book offers a radically different approach. Based on cutting-edge neuroscience of dopamine signaling, executive function, and impulse control, Mastering Your Money with Adult ADHD provides practical systems designed specifically for how ADHD brains make financial decisions. Forget generic budgeting advice that assumes perfect self-control and linear thinking. ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ "An absolutely beautiful book."—Steve Kerr, nine-time NBA Champion; Coach of the Golden State Warriors and Team USA The definitive book on excellence—beloved by world champion coaches and athletes, award-winning...

You have disappeared into a video game for six hours and then failed to read a two-page form. From the outside, that looks like a choice. From the inside, you know it isn't. ADHD is not a shortage of attention. People with ADHD often produce extraordinary amounts of it. The problem is allocation: pointing attention at a chosen target and holding it there on command. You are not trying to build a bigger tank. You are trying to build a better handle. This book is about how to do that. No four-hour focus blocks. No cabins in the woods. No advice built for a brain that runs on importance, ...

A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday—revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives. Emily and Paul are...

In the knowledge economy, your team’s brainpower—their intellect, creativity, learning capacity, and decision-making ability—is the key factor in their success at work. And their scattered focus dilutes that brainpower, hindering your organization’s ability to succeed. Today's "always-on" work culture too often prevents your staff from producing what matters most: ideas, innovation, and meaningful results. How can you and your team be successful when exhaustion and frustration from 24/7 communications, changing priorities, and constant distractions are the norm? Executives must protect their teams (and themselves!) from the high cost of chronic stress and burn-out. To achieve this and improve your company’s results, you must invest in how well you and your teams manage attention. When employees master attention management, they are more successful, engaged, and productive.