This isn't me. This is someone who works out so often they don't have time to write. Photo: Anastase Maragos/ Unsplash I DO A FAIR AMOUNT OF EXERCISE. I run, play football, cycle, swim and workout in the gym. You're right if you're thinking I'm the master of none of those things. Anyhow, while I was trotting along a hill at the weekend the idea popped into my head that writing is like working out. Though, obviously, it's a bit less sweaty. Below are five similarities between

The wheel is one of the best inventions of all time. Photo: Yasin Hosgor/ Unsplash WHEN YOU REACH PAGE 102 of The Go-Giver Leader by Bob Burg and John David Mann, you find one of the characters agreeing that words are the greatest human invention ever. As a bit of a word geek, you probably won’t be surprised to learn I agree with that statement. But, being a fair-minded word geek, at least for the purposes of public perception, I decided to google the words: ‘what are the gre

Photo: Priscilla du Preez/ Unsplash Let’s face it, writing is not for everyone. Some people enjoy it. Others, well, some people would rather stab themselves with an inky nib than write something that will be seen and judged by others. We call this morbid but common condition ‘write-o-phobia’. But fear not. Help is at hand if you’re struggling. Below are seven short points to help you structure a blog, news piece or a similar article. Remember, you can jot down anything just t

Stationary or stationery? Photo by Tim Gouw/ Unsplash I helped my Uncle Jack off his horse. I helped my uncle jack off his horse. My Microsoft Word spellchecker has no problem with those two sentences, despite their embarrassingly different meanings. You’ve probably seen this example before. But it works well to highlight the fact that spellcheckers couldn’t give a… well, erm, let's just say they don’t care what message you intended to convey. Which is why we see so many spel

Photo: countryliving.com AS VALENTINE’S DAY APPROACHES, it’s a good time to think about relationships. Not just romantic ones. Business ones as well. Focusing on the similarities between the two types of relationship is a great way to humanise your business. And have some fun along the way. Check out the following... Eye your targets In terms of romance, you have a type. Most of us lean towards a certain hair colour, height, build, personality, sense of humour, etc. Businesse

Photo: NBC News No, I don’t mean Trump. We know the answer to that. I mean the word ‘he’. Along with ‘she’, ‘he’ is technically known as a third-person singular pronoun. Those words conventionally act like lexical avatars, standing in for someone previously mentioned in the text. Sorry, that was a bit of a mouthful. I’ll explain it with a very, very simple example. I’ll use Trump for this. If I wrote: ‘Trump has left the White House’, I could follow it up with something like: