Reddit reviews The Renaissance Soul: How to Make Your Passions Your Life―A Creative and Practical Guide

This is something I juggle a lot. I'm not sure if I'm really good at it or not - time will tell. My approach tends to be to spend a few months emphasizing my focus on one thing at a time and let others kinda 'simmer' on the backburner. Not necessarily totally avoid them, but put a lot less effort in. It's impossible to do everything at once and it's also not practice to do 'everything a little bit at a time'. Because even though you may be able to break up a 40 hours work week into 4 projects by working on each 10 hours at a time... there's all that "offline" thinking you're doing in the shower, on the toilet, hiking, running, whatever and that can't be distributed well into 4 different projects. Same if you are delegating any work or collaborating with people - its tricky to coordinate these types of schedules with a bunch of different people (especially if it requires in-person meeting).


There's a great book called "The Renaissance Soul" which discusses how to collaborate multiple projects. This was really helpful in calming my discomfort and to find a strategy that worked for me. For example, some people focuses "seasonally" on different projects. Some people will combine multiple passions into a single project (I'm doing that with a physics sketch comedy show". Another example that's "working" for me is that I'm involved in mental health activism and an advocate for self-directed learning for teens -- so, big surprise, a lot of that content ends up making its way into my stand-up comedy. So that sorta combines some passions.