[pphysch]

IME this "second-guessing" is more often right than wrong. You can always return to a project that motivates you, but you can't get back time spent digging a hole deeper, and often it leads to tunnel vision and bad habit formation.

Not every "project" needs to become "finished" or "product".

[JoshGlazebrook]

My problem is scope creep. It's much harder to tell myself no vs. being on an engineering team at a company and there being a set process.