Here's some really bad advice, but it's what works for me (for hobby projects): Give up and start a metahobby of collecting unfinished projects. The real treas

Here's some really bad advice, but it's what works for me (for hobby projects): Give up and start a metahobby of collecting unfinished projects. The real treasures are the friends you made ^h^h^h^h^h things you learned along the way. I have found that I learn something and increase my skillset with every unfinished project. That leads to, over the long run, being able to get more accomplished in less time on newer projects. Plus, as a hardware hacker, I now have a tremendous inventory of parts that can be culled from the corpses of previous "failures" with no regret because the project as a whole doesn't function anyway. I've managed to ride out the RPi apocalypse on just my own inventory. Occasionally I finish something because the planets align, I have all the parts I need on hand (or they're available REALLY quickly), my attention/hyperfocus lasts long enough, and I can reduce scope to a manageable level. Maybe I'm lying to myself and I'm actually just lazy and don't have enough determination to finish under my own motivation. Meh, whatever, I'm comfortable with it and having a blast. If you're trying to make money from your side projects, I have nothing for you, sorry. I like my day job and don't need the money enough to let my hobbies become another. YMMV.