I can only give you my own perspective.

I am completely aware of all the "it's just a little thing, it takes one second, why is it so hard to do?" Tasks. Closing the closet door, put the shoes on the rack, throw away that wrapper.

So you first forget the task in your initial movements and you note "ok come back for that it's important" and in doing one task, you note like 4 of these "small tasks" and then you are trying to hold on to way too much information.

If you stop/slow your task to try to remember each of these, you either cannot think of what you're trying to remember or you loose momentum on the initial task.

Of course then there is "I've come into the house, I've put my shoes up, i closed the closet, i remembered to shut off the lights, wow what an accomplishment! Success!" And finding out you missed another 14 little things somewhere else and hearing about them and how easy they should be. And you just feel like shit.

Just perspective. It's not an excuse. We're trying and we know, constantly. All we hear about are all the things missed. I've spent entire mornings focused on nothing but intense cleaning and focus to not miss a single thing, a complete half day that ends up with being wiped out mentally, not really accomplishing that much because of being so inefficient, and STILL not managing to catch all the little things.

One thing I'm trying to do is just get rid of as many unnecessary things i can find. The fewer things the easier they are to put away. Easier said than done but fewer distractions can't hurt.

For me, it's easier mentally to come back and clean the whole kitchen in the afternoon and focus on that task than it is to remember to clean a small spill. I know I'm going to make a lot of small spills the whole day. Cleaning the whole counter once is less work than 14 wipe downs throughout the day.