When You Want 10 Passions… and Zero Burnout

There’s this moment every person knows: (and multipassionates know intimately)
You wake up excited about everything.

You want to write.
And take that course.
And start the new idea.
And return to the old idea.
And maybe reorganize your whole life while you’re at it because momentum feels good.

And then…
by 2 PM, you feel like a balloon someone let go of in a grocery store.
Just spinning in the air until you hit a shelf of discount canned corn.

The passion is there.
The desire is there.
But your nervous system?
She’s pacing slowly in the background whispering:
“Absolutely not.”

Here’s the thing no one tells multipassionates:
It’s not your passions that exhaust you.
It’s the spacing.

It’s the expectation that you should be able to hold
all 10 passions
all the time
with the same level of intensity in one day
while functioning like someone with only one path.

Of course you're tired!
You’re running a symphony with no sheet music.

 
The real cause of burnout for multipassionates

It’s not “too many ideas.”
It’s too little recovery between them.

Your brain is like a browser with 42 tabs open, but the real problem isn’t the tab count.
It’s the fact that you keep jumping between them before any of them finish loading.

Multipassionates don’t burn out because they’re scattered.
They burn out because no one taught us how to be cyclical instead of constant.

You don’t need to shrink your interests.
You need to sequence them.

 
A calmer way to hold your passions

Here’s a practice I use when everything feels urgent and equally important:

1. Pick the “Season,” not the Lifetime

Instead of asking:
“Which passion should I commit to forever?”
ask:
“What am I in the mood to commit to for the next 2–4 weeks?”

Two to four weeks is long enough to make progress,
short enough to not feel like marriage.

2. Give each passion a “minimum viable involvement”

Meaning:
What’s the smallest version of staying connected that still feels like care?

For example, if writing is one of your passions:

• Full involvement = writing a whole chapter

• Minimum involvement = jotting 3 ideas or 3 fun sentences in your Notes app

Both count.
One just costs less energy.

3. Add recovery as a passion

Wild idea: what if “rest” counted as a passion too?

Because here’s the truth:
Recovery isn’t the absence of progress — it’s what allows your next passion to land fully when you rotate.

4. Don’t repeat a passion cycle back-to-back

Even if you love painting, doing it three cycles in a row will feel like pressure instead of joy.

Multipassionates thrive in rotation, not repetition.

 
You are not too much — you’re too compressed

There’s nothing wrong with wanting many things. 💛
Your curiosity is not a flaw.
Your creativity isn’t overgrown.
Your ambition isn’t unrealistic.

You’re just trying to run all your passions simultaneously like apps, when they’re meant to be treated like seasons.

Spread them out.
Let each one breathe.
Let yourself breathe.

You don’t need fewer passions.
You just need more space for each one to shine.

Lots of love!