Remember, friends: it's okay not to have OKRs for your recreational activities. You can just, you know, do it for fun. You don't even have to give a shit whether you get better at it or not. You do not have to treat your hobbies/passions like capitalist enterprises.

For example, I've been posting selfies on instagram pretty regularly for the course of the pandemic. I didn't have much of a goal, it just seemed fun. I was playing. My pics are significantly better now than they were before, but it's not because I had goals or strategies.

It turns out that if you take 300 pics of yourself every day and pay even a little attention to what works and what doesn't, you'll magically get better at it, no goals required. Similarly, it's fine to make any kind of art for no reason and with no particular intent to improve.

You also don't need to monetize your side projects. You don't need to care if they are any good. You don't need to let the cult of productivity infect every part of your life. Let your art be useless. Let your play be unproductive. Let some part of your life be planless.

Let your hobbies be pointless, your loves inexplicable, your mind and your ideas sometimes fly untethered to the practical or the purposeful. Let some of your labor refuse to be quantified.

And here, read this, for inspiration. It's by Wendell Berry, and it's a manifesto. https://cals.arizona.edu/~steidl/Liberation.html