Cutting Corners Can Cause Consternation

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Yesterday morning I got up a bit earlier than usual at about 6.00am. I had a life coaching client at 8.30am and I had some writing on my book (Don’t Ask Stupid Questions – There’s No Stupid Questions) to finish off before it goes for publication and I also wanted to write a Blog before I started prepping up.

I left doing the blog until the very last minute because I was on a roll with the book stuff. My usual process is to write it, spell check it, proof read it twice (once in Word and then once before I hit publish) and then upload it. Yesterday however, I didn’t have time for all that checking nonsense I was in a hurry. So when I had finished writing I did my usual spell check and dumped it on the site for the world to laugh at. Unfortunately, not in a good way.

I was busy yesterday and didn’t go back and edit the live version as I had planned until later last night. Boy was that a mistake! It was quite apparent I had been typing in boxing gloves and wearing a welding mask when I posted it because it was appalling. I sat and stared at the gibberish that was the first sentence with a sinking feeling. It was populated with genuine words so had not been picked up by my spell-check but they weren’t technically the words I was looking for. Why oh why hasn’t Microsoft come up with an Idiot Checker? A device that could have set lights flashing and alarm bells ringing with a hint of humiliating laughter in the background. That would have done the trick, but oh no, that’s just too much to ask for. Not only was it written badly even for me, but also the beginning was so tepid and uninteresting that it could have become CFO for a Fortune 500 company.

So today I am here to warn you my lovely devoted and cuddly reader (you must be devoted otherwise no way would you be back today if you’d read yesterday. If on the other hand it your first time here – Welcome!) don’t try and cut corners, it doesn’t work. Well ok I admit it does work sometimes, but when it fails you feel like a right muppet and wished you’d not bothered.