I don't know whether it's because of poor education or simply those damn interwebs having fried my brain, but my writing isn't up to scratch. Not that it's something I would have picked up myself, it's feedback I'm getting from those in higher places, let's call them, actually, it's not important.

I struggled for some time to understand what they were talking about when referring to my writing (and soft-skills in general) needing some minor improvement. It wasn't until I received some examples of what they meant till the penny dropped. 1 example stands out and will be the one I refer to over time.

The use of the word "care" vs "mind".

For some reason I tend to use the former when someone asks me of my opinion about an issue. The response would typically be, "I don't care". Those who know me, know that I actually care quite a bit. I'm not careless. I don't like putting others down. I do care. If it's a subject I'm not particularly concerned about or know that me making a decision falling in column A or column B, then in actually fact, I don't mind.

So i'm hereby embarking on a very small, yet very important task of self-improvement. If I can slowly but surely get out of the habit of saying.

That takes care of one soft skill.

There's the bigger issue of writing, as I mentioned. There's a few ways I'm going to try and deal with that. Obviously, this blog is going to be one of them. But I hope to make reading another one of those. Yes, I said "hope to".

As a kid, I used to read. I mean, I used to read like a mo-fo. At some point, that changed. I have no idea why, and it's really annoying. I try to sit down and get through a book, or a magazine now, and I just can't. However, I'm working really hard to get through a book that was given to me with good reason. It's going well so far, I'm almost halfway through. I'm confident I can get through it because it's quite engaging.

I'll post a review once I'm done.

Do you care? You probably don't. I don't mind.