Inspired Intentions · Human Performance
Find out how far you have drifted from how you were built to perform, and start finding your way back.
Take The Drift Index™ →Free. Under 3 minutes. No card, no account needed to begin.
What drift is
The Drift Index™ helps you identify it, and optimise your brain to think better, clearer, and more consistently.
When we eat. When we sleep. When we move. When we focus. None of it is accidental, and none of it is irreversible.
But most of us have drifted so far from what our brains actually need to perform that we have stopped noticing the cost. You feel it in the decisions that take three coffees to make. The afternoons where everything you read slides off your brain.
That is drift: the gap between where you are performing now and where you are truly capable of performing. Not a failure of talent or effort. A failure of conditions.
Something feels off. Now you can name it. You don't need a diagnosis, you need a map, one that tells you exactly where your energy is going and what to do about it first.
Imagine The Other Version
Awake before the alarm asks you to be. The first hour belongs to you, not the next thing pulling at your attention, and the clarity of that carries into everything after it.
Same room, same pressure, but people can feel the difference when you're actually in it. Not performing presence, just there, and the whole conversation moves differently because of it.
Phone in another room. Not half-listening, not waiting for the day to finish, just there, with enough left over to actually enjoy the people in front of you.
What Actually Changes
You are holding the line in places and drifting in others. Your foundations are doing more work than they should.
What you get
You leave with a clear picture of where your performance is being depleted, and one honest step to take next.
What the Drift Index™ measures
The five the neuroscience says actually determine how well you think, decide, create and lead.
When in the day your brain is built to do its hardest work.
The default mode network. The state where insight and processing happen.
The night-time engine that consolidates memory and clears metabolic waste.
Exercise releases BDNF, which literally grows new brain cells.
Twenty minutes outside measurably lowers cortisol.
The science
Where You Start Depends On Who's Asking
The diagnostic is the same either way. What you do with it isn't.
For Individuals
Take the free diagnostic, get your personal Drift Score and five-lever map, then choose your own next step, a habit, a retake, or the full Reset Programme.
Take The Drift Index™ →For Business
See the drift pattern across your whole team, then a programme built around it, real leadership work included, so the results actually hold. Not another survey that tells you what you already suspected.
Delivered through Inspired Intentions, the human-performance consultancy behind the Drift Index™.
See How It Works For Teams →Before You Close This Tab
You know exactly which lever is weakest now. That's further than a vague feeling ever gets you. It's still not a plan.
Awareness is the first step. Neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's own research is clear on that: the more clearly you can see the choices you've been making, conscious or not, the more say you get over what you build from them.
But seeing the gap is not the same as closing it. You have done the honest part. What you do in the next five minutes is what actually changes things.
The Drift Reset is the only actual difference between those two versions of you. A structure and rhythm you can work with, starting today, starting with the area you want more control over first.
See How The Reset Works →What people say
"'You are likely inconsistent in ways that frustrate you.' It personally attacked me, in a good way. Nail on the head, and it's what motivated me to change."
"My days are packed, so time is precious. Working through the Drift Index™ with Hayley, she quickly diagnosed two actionable wins. Seeing it laid out so plainly was an eye-opener, and I am keen to see the dial move so I am operating at my best again."
"If you're looking for a tool that creates self awareness and gives people a language for understanding how they operate, I'd highly recommend it."
"The Drift Index™ is brilliant, genuinely. So many people are burning out, and this helps organisations get ahead of it."
"In the emergency services we rely on dynamic risk assessment and recognition-primed decision making, split-second calls that only look instinctive. Insight like this is rare and genuinely useful for us. Thought-provoking work, and Hayley's experience is invaluable."
"I've never given this any real consideration. The lever by lever analysis and advice for ways to improve performance is really well written and very easy to follow."
The Drift Reset™
A guided programme that takes you through it one step at a time, with the tips that make each habit actually stick, and a journal that tracks the ground you're gaining as you go.
See It
Take The Step
Watch It Hold
Thriving
You have seen the truth. The Reset is how you change it.
Start here
The Reset builds on your Drift Index™ results, so it begins with the free diagnostic. Take your Drift Index™ first. The Reset opens from there.
Founding price locked for life. It rises to £25 after launch.
Unlimited retakes and the full guided programme, stepping stones, tips and journal, with founding-member access. Join the waitlist and you will be first in when it opens.
Take your free Drift Index™ first →The Reset is coming soon. Join the waitlist for founding access.
From the same client, further down the line
"I've taken the Drift Index™ again. It's powerful to see the drift visually, the questions prompt reflection, and the report strikes a balance between accessible and thought-provoking. We are booking this for our team."
Michelle · Operations Director, Legal Services
For Organisations
Not a wellbeing survey that confirms what you already suspected. A real diagnostic across your team, a programme built specifically around what it finds, and leadership work that keeps it from quietly reversing six months later. Diagnostic shows the gap. Programme closes it. Leadership makes it hold.
How it works
You get a unique team code. Everyone on your team enters it when they take their Drift Index™, individual results stay private, but the code rolls every response up into one anonymised team report, scored and ranked by lever.
Questions
Yes. Your first Drift Index™ is free and needs no card and no account to begin.
Under three minutes. Twenty-one questions across the five levers.
Your individual responses stay private. We use anonymised, aggregated patterns only.
Hayley Standen, under her brand Inspired Intentions.
Your first Drift Index™ is free. Retaking it and tracking your score over time is part of the Drift Reset Programme. It is £15 a year for founding members, rising to £25 after launch, for unlimited retakes, full history and the guided habit work behind each lever. It is coming soon, and you can join the waitlist to lock the founding price.
Recovery is not the opposite of performance. It is the engine of it.