Leo, you sound like my husband.  I always mention something like "remember that door that you were going to paint......last year?"  The response is "yeah, it's on my list...."  Which I believe is probably right under tubbing out the new race car and installing new heat in the pole barn.....

I think that everyone's brain works differently.  I have learned a lot about myself by paying attention to what I do wrong.  I have an incredibly good memory, but keeping it organized is a problem.  Certain things I can remember easier than others.  If I see something (like look at a room) I can remember exactly what it looks like even when I'm not there.  I can remember how pages in a book look (in school, when I was less distracted with "life", I used to just stare at text book pages and "remember" what the page looked like.  I could then "read" the pages in my head when I got to a test. Never studied at all in school....got in trouble when tests where about 'lectures' though....)  I now can remember just about everything I read and store tons of useless facts.  I also write stuff down and read it to put it to memory.  I ask people to "remind" me of things, because, even though they won't remind me, by simply asking them to it will put it to my memory.  With driving, I can ride the same route 100 times and not know it until I drive it myself.  It's just how my brain works But "Dreamcatchers" really freaked me out (if you have seen the movie, you can probably see why I relate to it.)

I guess the only way that you can get your brain in order is to figure out your strengths and weaknesses and work with them. Keeping on track is simply fooling your brain into thinking that you are still interested in the task.  It's as simple as Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: flying is simply throwing yourself at the ground and missing.....