Self-discipline
“Self discipline is remembering what you really want.” (Source – Flylady email […]
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A sock draw? Surely not
In a week of processing copy, I spotted this quote from a person responding to a survey, in a Daily Mail story: ‘Then there were other non-essential tasks such as watering plants and sorting out the sock draw which suddenly became urgent priorities ahead of the essential task they really should be concentrating on.’ […]
Try to remember this
When I was at school (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) our small, fierce and lovely matric English teacher (complete with Scottish accent) drilled this into us: you never write “try and” – you write “try to”. An example: George Lucas will try and make a new Star Wars movie […]
Punctuation: Commas – just don’t do it
Commas. Such a tiny piece of punctuation, so wrongly used so much of the time. There’s one simple word which will always help when pondering whether to add a comma or not: don’t . Almost always, commas are inserted where they aren’t needed. Two examples: ONE For their sixth birthday recently, and as part of […]
No buts
But: such a little word, such a lot of confusion. You can go mad looking at grammar rules to find out when the use of But is appropriate – although it seems that a lot of people are not aware they need to think about it at all. To keep it simple (if a […]
Journalism ‘legals’: Renee’s golden rules
In my years as a sub-editor on South African newspapers, and as a trainer, I wrote a host of training materials – one of the most used being my one-pager on the legal side of reporting in South Africa. Here it is. Bear in mind that I am not a lawyer, but I do […]
Joy
Joy does not come from what you do; if flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you. Eckhart […]
We create the future
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. John Schaer (quoted in Flylady at some […]
Daily life
… the true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris, quoted on The Happiness Project […]
Walking meditation
Change your To Do list from a stew of chores into a daily walking meditation on the value of life. Quote from an emailed testimonial to […]