When genuinely more important things interfere with side projects, procrastinating on the side project is the correct thing to do, writes Scott Young. He shares the important distinction between maintenance activities and aspirational goals asserting achieving goals is an optimization problem.
Source: Scott H. Young. Link. Productivity isn’t throwing out all your existing commitments in the fanatical pursuit of a big ambition. Instead, it’s choosing what matters and organizing your time and energy to reach it.
Don’t let yourself feel guilty if your <ambitious> choices cause you to procrastinate on something that genuinely matters less.”