Parallel and serial - separated only by one quantum collapse

I have always prided myself to juggle a large and diverse set of threads simultaneously. My progress philosophy in brief is that if I can visualize the future I want materialized, then as long as I'm involved in a large number of activities (not so important which) the future I envisaged will eventually evolve. The activities themselves do not really matter because I also think that every activity is just a different aspect of the same reality and the important "cusp" interconnecting moments will emerge where your decision will tilt the direction of the development in an irreversible way. Maybe I'm a renaissance man born in the wrong century.

The opposite of this was demonstrated with clarity by a house renovation project of my own. Suddenly my attention was required to great many details of a one single project and I felt like a quantum function collapsing. I have pretty much been incapable of being involved in any parallel activities at all while the serial one does not wan't to materialize either. I'm definitely most effective in parallel but I can not predict how.