Annual Recurring Rhythms

It’s crazy how I got recurring, repeating patterns of behaviour on a yearly basis.

Time Hop showed me that I wrote a post about “First day jitters in PHP” exactly one year ago:

Then yesterday I just did this:

Coincidental much? Hear me out…

And before PHP, I had burnout. Same thing one year ago. So the pattern seems to be: I recover, feel motivated and creative again, and then start on abandoned projects or ideas.

This wouldn’t be anything to be worried about of course, except that I’ve probably been cycling through this for years.

Y.E.A.R.S.

With little progress to show for. (→ another Time Hop highlight)

At this point it’s not even funny anymore.
Something feels very off and wrong, these annual recurring rhythms…

And it has to change.