Soul Renovation - School of Soul

On Flaws and Spelling - Every once in a while someone will send me a DM about my spelling, or a client will correct my spelling in a text. I want to talk about flaws, quirks, self-acceptance, and how we learn. Last year I would have told you I was a horrible speller, but now I am confident to say I am just not a good speller. There have been massive improvements and I still have a long way to go. Spelling has always been this weird thing for me, its kinda like how I experience telling time. I still can’t quite tell time easily. Yup, 31 years old, hugely successful at my job and life in my opinion and still struggling with the basics of spelling and telling time. ⠀
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I know how to tell time, but it doesn’t come to me automatically. I can’t glance at a watch and know the time, I have to look then mentally add it up in my head. Weird, right? Spelling is another weird one for me. You would think after how many books I have read that I would be a fantastic speller. It has enlarged my vocabulary (according to Grammarly I have a vocabulary larger than 98% of their users ) but reading has not improved my spelling. Truthfully I mess up the most basic words some days. Up until my late 20’s, I actually had to say bus-i-ness in my head while spelling business. I have spelt ‘restaurant’ wrong so many times on my iPhone that it now autocorrects to the wrong spelling. but hey we can’t be good at everything? For so long I was embarrassed about my spelling, mortified when someone pointed it out. I even remember ending a very close friend of one and her low blow clap back was that I was a horrible speller. (Ouch, Hit me where it hurts). This was the moment I decided to work on my spelling. Instead of avoiding my flaw, I decided to face it head-on. I started writing every day, I purchased a fantastic Grammar editor (that I don’t just click through, I actually study and try to learn from the corrections it makes) and slowly but surely, every week a little bit my spelling report card gets better.