Someone once rather unkindly described one of my past jobs as ‘janitorial services’… i.e. cleaning up the messes made by other people.
If you ever take a moment to talk to anyone who genuinely does do ‘janitorial services’, you soon learn it is hard work, low status and low paid. We should all be a little more respectful and grateful to those who do.
But stimulated by the book Atomic Habits by James Clear, I’m making small incremental improvements (and not sweeping goals) the priority.
Tidying up around the house has been this weekend’s zeitgeist – and in the process I realised, why not tidy up Achilles & Aristotle too… If I haven’t got the muse or anything new to say, then why not do a better job of what I’ve already said!
There’s no piece of writing that can’t be a little better, so punctuation and small edits are my target. And in the process I get a free trip down memory lane – starting back in 2010, as I did this morning.
Much as I found in my ‘janitorial services’ job, cleaning up can be just as fulfilling as ‘creating’ if you change your mindset.
Here’s to more tidying up!
Achilles & Aristotle 