What I - and perhaps someone else - needs to do is finding your focus, finding that tunnel vision.
It allows us to actually get useful stuff done, it gives me the opportunity to dig out of this god damn hole I'm stuck in. But I can't find it right now, I get short glimpses of that important mind set, but I lose it fast.
And other things, other paths come. And they are much more interesting and much easier, so I pull on that other string for a while.
But almost as soon I start walking along that path I feel regret and guilty, so I can't even enjoy that other path, that easier path.
I think the guilt is key, I need more guilt, I need to use it. I need to finish the things I start, I need to race for that finish, I need to reach what I want, and I think guilt is a useful guide.
When I finish, I can look for other paths.