The person chasing every train eventually forgets where they originally wanted to go.

Chasing every opportunity produces motion without direction, and after enough of it the original destination is genuinely forgotten. Each individual chance seems worth taking, which is what makes this hard to see from inside. The cost is not any one detour but the accumulation.

Write down where you were actually trying to go, then look at your current commitments. Decline the next opportunity that does not serve it. Saying no is how a direction stays a direction.