Why it seems like you always hit burnout, before you even get started.

The reason you hit burnout doing what you’re passionate about is because you got used to leaving prematurely before you start feeling good. And now it’s all labor, and it only gets you tired.

If you leave only after you start feeling good, it means you left when reward started to kick in. 

This will leave you more energized afterwards, instead of leaving with nothing but exhaustion, having neither reached what you’re after, nor felt good along the way.

Just try to do it more, even if it made you feel more tired. 

Go for a little bit more, even if you’re really exhausted, until you start feeling that satisfaction and fulfilment, that can only exist when you feel rewarded enough. 

That will make the recovery process way easier, faster, and better, and will even energize you a lot on top of that, making sure you never burnout doing what you love and find to be important according to your core values and what truly matters to you.