What's your work really for?
Is it for others?
Is it for you?
That's a broad-stroke way of looking at your project, but we can dig deeper:
Is it for your own creative exploration, your career progress, is it because your soul needs you to do this, is it because the world needs you to do this, is it for your values, a loved one, financial objective or wellbeing objective? So on and so forth...
The broad details of "what's it for" is a good place to start to work out 'why' you're doing what you do but also to help understand the 'how'.
Digging deeper, however, we hopefully see that there can be an array of reasons as to why we do something; it pays to be as clear as possible here.
It also pays to consider that not all our projects or all our work have to be for the same goal.
The answer to the question "what's it really for" is to help us make a choice; one that steers us in the right direction.
Some projects should be for the next phase in your career. Others, for your own personal benefit. Perhaps there's overlap, but not all projects are equal and neither are the reasons why we do it.
If everything is for growth, you'll likely have a hard time sustaining things. If everything is for yourself, how will you ever reach the people who would love your work?
It's normal and ok for different projects to be for different things.