Hi Clarebelle
I completely agree.
My Dad has all day every day to potter around growing veg and that is pretty well all he does nowadays. For me however, I need to prioritise my time and when I am faffing around with my veggie patch, I want it to be an enjoyable experince, not a massive chore which I would end up resenting if there was too much to do.
I realise that once again I am sending this thread off topic, so apologies, but the best thing that I ever did was install 7 raised beds to divide up my veggie patch. Mentally, if I only weeded/dug/manured/whatever one veggie bed in a day, I had not 'broken myself' with work, but still felt like I had achieved something and reached a conclusion, whereas if I had weeded/dug/whatever 1/7th of the veggie patch and then stopped for the day, I would have felt like I had achieved very little and still had a mountain to climb so would not be having any fun at all.
I am now very selective about what I grow, but still generally grow far too much still!