My boss keeps launching new big ideas while I’m completely burned out trying to execute them

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I need to vent, kind of losing my mind here..

My boss isn’t a bad person. He thinks that he’s pushing the team to be better. When I first joined, I was a bit impressed that he always had ideas. In my previous job my old boss didn't care about anything so this was a refreshing change. It felt exciting, like we were building something ambitious.

But over time it’s become exhausting. We rarely have the energy to finish what we start. We’ll kick off a major initiative, put in weeks of planning and execution, and just when we’re deep in the messy middle of it, he gets a new idea, he talks about it like a kid who just discovered something brilliant. Meetings turn into long monologues about how transformative it’s going to be, how we need to move fast, blah blah.

The thing is, these ideas aren’t bad. But they require real work to do properly. And they have to be done his way. So we absorb them. We reshuffle priorities. We stretch ourselves thinner. We try to make them successful while still fighting daily fires and keeping the old commitments alive.

Most times the previous big thing quietly loses his attention. He gets bored, even if we successfully implement them.

The pressure just keeps stacking though. There’s no real pause to ask what we can realistically take on. It’s always forward motion. I’ve tried to give feedback a few times, gently, framing it around bandwidth and execution risk. Each time he’s brushed it off and told me I’m being negative and not being a team player. I laughed it off in the moment, but now I’m starting to think he actually believes that.

I know im not negative. I care about doing good work. I just don’t think constantly starting new things while we’re buckling under the old ones is sustainable.

Does anyone here know how to survive this kind of a boss?