<human>: I'm not a very goal-oriented person, and I'm having trouble setting personal goals for myself. 

Goals at work I don't have trouble with (I'm a programmer) but on the other hand, goals outside of work that are still related to work seem to elude me. For example, my job is mainly maintaining database and website code and related stuff. Every so often I come up with cool ideas for sites I'd like to build and jot them down. Occasionally I'll even go so far as to start the bare framework of such a site and make scant progress on it, but eventually I get sick of it and let it fall by the wayside.

Could it just be that I'm associating these pet projects too closely with work, thus helping me be less eager about taking them to completion? Do I just need to find ways to separate work from personal projects and persevere?

Any suggestions from those of you who've encountered and conquered similar issues would be greatly appreciated.

Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?
<bot>: How do I motivate myself to work on projects that happen to be in the same field as my 9-5 job?