Recent realization: don't force yourself to do hobbies. Don't feel responsible to do it. It takes the fun out of it. Motivation should be intrinsic, and not moral.

This automatically means one lets go of control over how one spends their spare time, and let each circumstance and situation dictate what happens.

I'm beginning to think that starting small hobby projects versus large and complex ones would be more sensible in that sense (unless I had the money to treat all time as spare time) ...