Yet my brain figures that any chirping birb on the background is a matter of national urgency.
This is funny and applicable to tasks that are either monotonous or boring! Great to see your progress like a habit and the same thing has happened to me ever since I joined #100DaysOfX tribe on Twitter. You will get more things done at the end of such challenges which you would never have done otherwise. We, as humans, always underestimate our abilities.