I couldn't get it till this realization dawned on me - being teachers, one of our main chores was correction of books/scripts of children's work. There was one teacher, who used to rush through her work so that she could finish quickly and have time left over before the deadline. Her reasoning was that it was only after her work was over that she would be able to rest, relax, read and catch up on the things that she wanted to do. The rest of us would go through our work slowly, talking, joking, reading, sharing, and generally happily doing all that we had to in our professional and personal lives. But, we would meet our deadline.
However, invariably what happened was that since this lady completed her work before us, she found that a) we were on a different plane altogether, and b) the VP would give her some other work to do - please can you do this, seeing as you've finished your work...or....please can you help her, she's new....or.....please can you organize this for us.... . And so, this poor lady would end up doing all kinds of extra work and eventually have no time for relaxation at all, or do the things she'd wanted to do...
We, on the other hand, would submit our work when it was time, and be as relaxed at the end as we were at the beginning...
Seems to me life is something like this - there is no one point in time that we can mark out saying, yes, we've finished our chores and now it is relaxation/celebration time...looks more like we have to make a celebration of every day along with and in spite of our chores...there is no time after chores...