Playing [or is it working] on my computer tonight, I noticed that while working on any set of tasks I am constantly distracted by other things I could be doing. It is like I have these set of parallel processors in my head and in a random manner a parallel thread becomes the main logic chain.

For example, I wanted to clean up the clutter on my desktop and while doing this I found a folder (although it is always there right on my desktop) that contains interesting articles that I wanted to read. Typically, I would have ended up with a partially cleaned desktop and half the articles read.

Is this attention deficit disorder? Or is this simply a lack of discipline to follow through, to do something to its logical conclusion? I think it is the latter, although it may be caused by the former.

When I write, the use of brackets to express an adjunct thought or commentary is an expression of how my brain is constantly working in parallel.  Reflecting a little bit, this is a common pattern and one that I need to pay more attention to and hopefully solve.

The immediate solve for tonight, I put the things I wanted to do down on paper and force myself to finish the tasks off is some chronological order.