I’m going to start this weeks weekly waffle with an apology because this is going to be a woeful update I’m afraid. A combination of extreme loss of mojo coupled with going back to work after two weeks off has turned into the perfect storm of hobby lethargy. I can honestly say that this week I haven’t picked up a paint brush, although I have looked at a few, or rolled a dice in anger. In fact, I haven’t even picked up a dice let alone got angry enough to actually want or need to roll one. So that means that on the grot bot front Pete is certainly in the lead for winning his bet that I don’t have enough time to actually complete them as we are now something like four or five weeks after I had the initial idea and I still haven’t made a start. I’m still trying to be eternally optimistic and believe that I can still deliver on time, but then again I always am right up until the point of catastrophic failure.
Now I have had a complete loss of mojo when it comes to picking up a paint brush, or craft knife or anything like that, but what I have had this week is a lot of time on the train. Not something I really enjoy but I have learned to make it productive so it gives me a couple of hours of reading or listening to music to look forward too. So this week whilst listening to some new tunes and watching the world fly by, headphones on in my own little bubble I’ve been pondering this whole mojo, and lack thereof issue. I’m sure we all go through it and you only have to look back at some of my previous posts to see that I’ve had some really productive periods and equally some amazing unproductive times. But for all of this experience I’m still none the wiser as to why it happens. It just does. So I guess my question is, should we fight and just keep on painting or hobbying even when we aren’t enjoying it or should we just give it a miss for a week or two? You see there is always the risk that if you take a break you can make that the norm and you will never get back into the groove and you will drop out of the hobby by default. I’ve done that with other hobbies in the past. You miss something for a few weeks, then a few more and before you know it the world has moved on and you are not part of that little bit of it. So simply pushing on and ‘fighting’ through that little bit of block may be all it needs, even if you are only going through the motions. It’s just a case of keeping things ticking over and before you know it you are back at full speed.
For me I think I’m just going to take it easy for a week or two but make an effort to be there for game night next week, even if can’t actually get a game it I think it will start to rekindle the mojo. The only danger there is that I know Al has painted up some of his Aeronotica so I may end up with something new to paint. But if it gets the mojo working again maybe that won’t be a such a bad thing. I’ll just end up with even more unfinished projects to look back on.
Anyway that’s it for this week. Once again I’m sorry for the lack of hobby content and I’m not going to say I will do better for next week but I will try and resume normal service over the next couple of weeks. But still hope to catch you all again next week as you never know what can happy in a week of hobby mojo.
