Mummascribbles – Losing motivation and trying to find it again – Mummascribbles

It’s January.

I feel like I should be on fire with everything – the blog, my work, the house, life itself.

I am struggling however. You could call it the January blues or you could simply call it a lack of motivation. I feel like I can’t get going, that I am finding that nothing is inspiring me to write and nothing is inspiring me in the workplace.

January is always a quiet time at work waiting for projects to kick off. And kick off it will. There is no doubt about that. We are a team member down and lots of changes in the company mean it might stay like that for a while. Which means that between my boss and I, we are solely responsible for all of the events on our side of things this year. I should feel a little overwhelmed by all of this but I don’t think I will until it kicks off.

In a couple of weeks I will be heading up to Leicester for the first programme planning meeting of the year and once I am back from that, it will be all systems go with that event. Equally, I am just finalising some venue details for another event in Ireland and then that will be all systems go as well. There will be plenty to do with designs, flyers, promo, logistics. You name it, it will need doing. So I know that this lack of work motivation will be short lived.

The blog on the other hand?

I want to write. In fact, whilst I am quiet at work it is the perfect chance to be drafting ideas and posts. Except I am struggling for ideas. I sit there willing myself to write something. I’ll start the first sentence and then boom, I close it because I feel like I am writing tat and tat is not what I want to write. In fact, this post is proving wonders in helping me. I am tap tapping away on my keyboard, the words flowing out of me. Maybe if I release this little bit, there will be room in my head for more. Maybe I will doubt myself a little less and instead of completely closing the word doc down, I will save it to go back to later. I have even googled for blog post ideas…those ones where you are at a loss of something to write. Desperate for inspiration.  Even they aren’t helping! It’s like there is no part of my brain that is currently capable of putting words onto the screen (remember when that phrase used to be words onto paper?!).

Ooo, I just thought of a blog post idea! Hmmm, that’s one I may have to have a little think about!

See, maybe writing this was a big help.

I’d love to know how you come up with blog post ideas when you are feeling a lack of motivation. When there seems to be no creative side to your brain, no words to come out. I know we have all been there at one time or the other. My time is now. Hopefully it won’t be for long.

Maybe in fact it has everything to do with being quiet at work. Maybe I am not using my brain enough, it’s not feeling challenged and therefore not feeling up to being creative.  Maybe when everything kicks off and my brain goes into overdrive, I will have those words back. And no time to write them!

Swings and roundabouts hey?!