"I've got more important things to do"

You're not putting the form off out of idleness. You've got a job, and children, and a friend who needs ringing, and a form is a form. It goes after the important things, and there's always an important thing.

Go back to Masicampo and Baumeister's anagrams. The unfinished goal didn't just sit there. It got in the way of the unrelated task. People with an undone thing running did worse at the thing in front of them. So the important things aren't being done instead of the form. They're being done with the form running in the background, and they're being done slightly worse for it, and so is the conversation with the child and the call to the friend. The heap isn't waiting politely behind the important things. It's taxing them.

A computer with twenty programs open is slow at the one you're using, even though the others are just sitting there. Closing them is faster than working round them.

Now look at the size of the tax against the size of the item. Four minutes of form, weighed against a week of doing everything else with the form open in your head. If the important things are important, the fastest way to give them your whole attention is to get the four-minute things out of the way, not because the form matters more than the child but because the form is the one that'll leave. The child won't be done in four minutes. The form will.

There's a second thing hiding in this objection, and it's worth naming. "More important things" is often true and is also the most respectable excuse in the heap. Nobody argues with it. You don't argue with it. And so it covers items that could have been done in the four minutes you spent choosing what to watch, which is not an important thing and didn't feel like it needed defending. The test is whether the important thing was actually happening at the moment the item was put off. Sometimes it was. Often it was a screen.

So when the form loses to something important, ask two questions. Is the important thing happening right now, or is it a general condition of my life that I'm invoking? And would the important thing go better with the form gone? If the answers are "general condition" and "yes", the form is the important thing for the next four minutes, and then it's gone, and the important things have you back.