Pearls and swine

It doesn’t so much saddens me than it irritates the hell of me when I come across colleagues who are nothing more than plain lazy. Here, you’ll have scores of degree holders, masters graduates and the lot telling you that they can’t write proposals or even simple letters because they aren’t writers.

What a load of crap!

That is nothing more than a cheap and lowly way to get someone else to do your job for you.

As some of you may recall from one of my earlier blogs, I had touched on this subject… on how you needn’t get a urologist or gynaecologist each time you need to head off to the toilet and that if it takes a specialist for each job function, you’d have a horde of specialists doing your bidding. Yes, even if it means going to the toilet.

What a sheer waste of money to have spent so much for one’s education just to be an uneducated sod later on in life.

But here’s an absolute truthful secret for those that are willing to take the oft’ and narrow road.

The more you practice at one thing, be it writing or painting (whatsoever, for that matter), you’ll soon find that you can actually master that one thing. It’ll become easier and faster to produce the same, if not better results. But to do this, you’ll need to change your mindset approach to doing and practicing.

There were numerous times (and still are!) that I’ve had to force myself to write when I didn’t feel up to it. I’ve had to write for lazy colleagues because they lament how they weren’t good at writing. For me, I’ve had to mentally tell myself that it’s for my own good because I get to practice writing and that the more writing I get in, the better and faster I become at it.

Yes, it works. I stand as a testament to this. My earlier editors and colleagues from the newspaper used to tell me that I wrote crap. They were right. Well, now I don’t, and it’s not due to some writing course or whatsoever. It came from nothing more than just practice, practice and more practice.

Oh, and for the colleague who’s lazy as hell? Why bother to benefit him/her by revealing your secrets. After all, why throw your pearls to swine where they get trampled upon?