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Audition your Thoughts and if they don’t Perform Positively, Kick them Off the Stage!

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100 Words: I recently read tips on how to stay encouraged and one point was to hold ‘thought auditions’. As we’re getting older and more isolated and come into contact with others getting older and lonelier, it becomes a repeating theme. People break contact with each other because of the thoughts they entertain. The thing with one’s thoughts is that one leads to another and another… and after a while, the thoughts get intermingled with untruths, and trust is broken – and fixing broken relationships gets almost impossible. All because one little ‘unauditioned’ thought was being allowed to grow into a web of untruths.

Under 10-words Takeaway: Banish negative, untrue thoughts to save your relationships.

Read the previous 100-word Pondering here.

© 2025  Fielies De Kock

Fielies De Kock is a freelance content writer/blogger (www.fieliesdekock.com) living in Hermanus in the Overberg, South Africa, with her crazy-haired husband and two dogs. She authored a children’s chapter book and a few short reads and is co-author of 125 Creative Writing Prompts for Petrolheads (available on Amazon Kindle) with her content writer son – who also has crazy hair.

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Close the Tap Every Now and Then

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100 Words: It’s dry season in the Cape now, so our dams are emptying rapidly. The 2017/18 drought is still fresh in our memories and with the electricity crisis, our water supply is in danger countrywide. But in a world where we operate like headless chickens, humans are in danger of running dry too. We need to help and serve others, but a tap without water cannot fill an empty cup. As we give, we also need to take in, switch off, take a rest and replenish – otherwise our taps will not only run dry, but our feeding source is threatened too.

Under 10-words Takeaway: Soak in the rain (rest) to replenish your resources regularly.

Read Fielies’ next 100 Pondering here. Start reading the series from here.

© 2023  Fielies De Kock

Fielies De Kock is a freelance content writer and blogger living in Hermanus in the Overberg, South Africa, with her crazy-haired husband and two dogs. She authored a children’s chapter book and a few short reads and is co-author of 125 Creative Writing Prompts for Petrolheads (available on Amazon Kindle) with her content writer son – who also has crazy hair.