When you keep getting distracted from doing the task which you are set to do, this is a method to connect the dots.
Really good ideas connect the dots.
People who connect the dots to create big ideas are called "Dot Connectors".
One Office Boy has assumed this mission once before.
So when you keep beating yourself up in the noggin for not staying on task, start thinking about your distractions like dots.
Your noggin is associating.
You're trying to deliver the report to your tyrant but can't move one step forward.
Your noggin takes a side step to something totally disconnected - how dare thee Sir Noggin.
NO - This is the critical point of failure.
You are the pretender with perspective beyond that of which the scope has been defined for this particular deliverable bringing you self-challenge.
The deliverable. The report. The thing you are expected to complete.
That's one dot.
The distraction. The scope your noggin has brought you to. The reason you are feeling bad about your inability to just sit down and stay on task.
That's one dot.
As a dot connector, you shall now connect the dots.
This 4 step process will document one connection of two dots.
If a big idea which is valued by society as "Having Connected The Dots" is a network of dots and connections, then what you have just completed with this 4 step process is the establishment of two dots and one connection. It is the most basic component of a big idea.
That's "Connecting The Dots".