“Finding people to fix your typos is easy.” As someone who makes part of their living from proofreading, perhaps I shouldn’t admit it; but it’s true. Seth Godin’s blog < sethgodin.typepad.com > has gradually opened my eyes to the fact that spotting mistakes, amending, editing and so on is easier work than taking productive initiative.
Decluttering, detoxing, rationalising... however you want to put it, January is traditionally a time for taking a look at your life and clearing out some of the rubbish. I usually try to do a bit of decluttering shortly after taking down the Christmas decorations, but I also tend to look again at how I’m spending my time. I want to rid myself of temporal as well as spatial clutter.