I hear you, and I go through the same cycle myself, albeit seemingly not quite as extreme from your explanations. It still sucks. I spread myself too thin. I n

I hear you, and I go through the same cycle myself, albeit seemingly not quite as extreme from your explanations. It still sucks. I spread myself too thin. I noticed you essentially said “I do well at work, then do well at personal projects, then I’m burnt out.” Have you tried cutting out the side projects and just minimizing your self expectations of output, temporarily even? Usually when I find myself in this vicious cycle, it is because I have spread myself too thin, and I’m feeling stressed to perform well with everything I have my hand in. I’ve learned that, if I allow myself to fall into that hole, that I end up outputting less than I would if I just took the extra X months or whatever and didn’t trying to cram everything into the same window of time. After being a startup founder for 3 years and incurring quite a mental and financial toll, I decided to become a salaried worker again and let everything else fall to the side for the next X years. Sure, I’m not on the track of founding my own business right now. But you know what, that’s ok, I’m really enjoying life and the journey along the way! Again, there is probably more specifics and situational details to your predicament, but I hope this may give you some more food for thought. Best wishes to you my friend.