And the reasons are ...

I believe that I drop everything to do something that comes to mind because:

• I'm impatient to see the thing done as opposed to waiting
• Giving in to the impulse to do said thing
• Knowing that if I write it down to do later, it might not get done because I am always in the middle of doing something else
• Trying to remember to do it later, sans writing it down, and then forgetting about it
• Writing it down to do later and then not looking at my notes where it was written
• Setting an alarm and then snoozing the alarm because I am in the middle of something else and didn't want to interrupt myself, which means that I wind up putting off, and never getting to, what I wanted to do in the first place.

I know that why I do this, I just wish that I didn't do it

I got wrapped up in creating, and then updating, a load list from my old SplashID data.  When I moved everything over from my old phone to my new one, that data file did not move over.  I've been trying to get Splash to dump the contents for over a year, so that I can load them into another app.  Now, with less than two weeks left before I had to send the old one off, it was either get it downloaded or type each into the other app one by one.  This became a big deal today because I needed to look up a password, and that triggered the events that eventually had me editing a list that was created last year that was sitting on my old phone.  Once I got started, I of course found it very difficult to pull away.  I really hate that I obsess over things.  Most of my morning has been spent working on something non-work related.