The Perils of Bootstrapping via Consulting | My Experience

I would try and look at consulting and your business as two separate things/projects. Consulting is consulting and product development is product development.

The way I've tried to manage it is my day job is my day job and building products is what I do at night or in my spare time. It takes longer but there is a clean separation and it forces you to focus on the most important stuff and less busy work.