Daily Life, Fairy-Tale Style

First, a funny meme:Point-to-point distraction is a huge problem when I start life chores, but guess what?I KNOW THE SUPER-SEKRIT WINNING STRATEGY to overcoming it, thanks to my unprofessional, unscientific, non-analytic studies on the subject. And because I'm so generous, Imma share it with you today.Here it is: life is a series of fetch quests.Once you know that, you know the third task past the first is a trap, and you can avoid it.How can I say this with such confident certainty? Well. Thank my parents for giving me so many fairy tales wherein the protagonist had to quest for item after item, then wind back through a long line of exchanges to the beginning to get their prize.There is always a turning point several quests into the journey. ALWAYS.If you want to reach your day's happy ending, turn back at the fourth victory and begin tracking back to the original quest. Otherwise you are DOOMED.I'm not saying that's easy. Simple things rarely are.(I know it isn't always the fourth quest in the classics -- but three-plus-one is a powerful number, and I did mention this being unscientific, right? Right. So. Back to the POINT.)The fetch-quest model works (for me) because it puts adrenaline-craving and competitiveness into harness together. When aimed at a shared goal, they're strong enough to haul my interest-motivated ass away from all the shiny things and drag me down the road to home. YMMV, but never underestimate the power of WINNING.Once I complete the work that earns me a gem from the Goblin King, I know to decline the promise of riches for the easy follow-up task they offer. That quest will surely lead to my destruction, and I ALREADY HAVE AN IN-GAME TROPHY TO COLLECT!So I refuse the Goblin King's tempting reward, turn back and retrace my steps to the dragon's lair, give him the gem in trade for the scale I will use to pay the wizard for the spell that releases the cursed bird from its cage so she can sing the song that releases my love from their enchanted sleep......or toss the freaking pens, take the list to the store for detergent, REFUSE TO BE SIDETRACKED INTO FIFTEEN OTHER ERRANDS, and come home to start the damned laundry.Whichever. Point is, never ever take that fifth fetch quest. Eyes on the shiny, shiny prize.The struggle is real.That's it in random observations for now. Until later!