Latent slime clumps
There's the GTD system. The idea is to formulate all your tasks as specific actions, write them out on a list, and do them. In reality, it almost doesn't work.
What does "to do" feel like? Vaguely. Kind of like hunger. That is, you can get distracted and not eat. You can have a snack, not necessarily lunch, to relieve the hunger in the moment. There are plenty of options for both food and places to eat; it's not a rigid task like "at 2:00, heat up a container from your wife in the cafeteria and stuff it down in 15 minutes" for the office workers for whom GTD was designed.
In reality, there's just a certain clot, a thickening of mucus, that slows you down and feels like a need. It can disappear if you realize the need is trivial. But in reality, if you really need something, you can't move in any direction. You have to beat around the bush, thinking about the best way to get it.
The key point is latency. You forget about it. It's a magical technique, one of the few things in magic that works. I believe that effective magical rituals create super-dense clots in the mucus, allowing you to attract rare coincidences that the conscious mind doesn't notice. You have to forget the ritual, only then will it work.
It's best not to be conscious of what you did and got what you wanted, even after success. Just keep track of how everything is generally fine, and then, 10 years later, you're like, "Holy shit, all my plans worked out, I was consciously thinking about it."
The magic of clots only emerges from the Skull level and is a transition to alchemical mucus. The idea is that you dissolve individual fangs of the bone worms that make up the skull, and they create these clots. That is, for me, this is how it looks now; the dust of fangs gives a deeper understanding of the area.
Clots are unhealthy; they disrupt the balance and symmetry within the mucus. Ideally, it should be almost completely liquid and smell the aromas of circumstances, not clots of needs.