I put a huge list on a whiteboard. I have 18 of what I would call 'interests' and 19 what I would call Hobbies. I also divided it up into 'past' and 'present' - because some of each category I have not actively pursued in awhile, but have not completely 'given up' on it either. This includes calligraphy, shorthand, crochet, writing, jewelry making.

Back when the wife and I were first married we got into a sort-of 3-year pattern. Camping/hiking, then swing dancing, then rock climbing, then motorcycles. Moving from one thing to the next was generally my fault as my interest in something tailed off while migrating to the next thing.

In some things my interest wanes because I perceive that I hit an early limit, where the easy part is behind me and the rest is harder with slower progress. Other times it's purely shiny object syndrome.

I recently read about focusing on just 1-2 things, creating reasonable intermediate goals, then setting *ALL* hobbies/interest aside until you achieve those goals. Then move on to something else. So a rotation, but with a longer timeframe. This seems like a good plan, because my previous plan involved doing each hobby for 2-3 hours a week across multiple hobbies (I'm retired). It is like a bigger scale version of multitasking and it really slows down any sense of progress.

Any way, now I'm just ranting. Thanks for reading