Articles for category: Growth

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

There was Never Enough

Never enough time, resources, money, opportunities, customers, people, etc. There has never been enough, and there never will be. Pick your “thing” you don’t have enough of, it shifts over the course of your career – opportunities, money, earnings, customers – there will never be enough. Knowing there will never be enough, would you change your strategy? Would you take a different approach to what you want to achieve? Would you do something completely different? Or do you have enough, but just aren’t using it in the right way? What is your enough?

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Don’t Get From Conferences

Conferences are not training. You can travel and go to a training course where they deep dive you on a topic for one week.  Maybe you are there with a colleague or two, but you are not there with thousands of people, all in one class, all learning a topic and struggling through labs. This is good because struggling to do a lab with a thousand people would be daunting on a good day. Conferences are many things (as already gone through) but they are not training, they are learning. Different audiences, different topics, different opportunities, don’t sign up for

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Get from Conferences

Conferences are a great opportunity to connect with past and former, colleagues, meet new people, and get an overview of new topics. There are some conference that will deep dive on 2 – 3 core topics but generally, they are a firehose of information coming your way. The locale is different and a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, pick everyone’s brain without work surrounding you, and just overall learn about what does and doesn’t work in the team and what you can do moving forward. I haven’t been to a conference in a long time, but these are

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Blocker

When asking someone a question, they might not give you the initial response that you are hoping to receive. But are they blocking you? Are they stopping you in your tracks? Are they preventing you from moving forward? If they are coming back with more questions than statements or redirecting towards other topics – chances are they are blocking. If they are providing well-thought-out explanations that give you an answer to your question (just not the one you hoped for), they are trying to help. Blockers don’t provide well-thought-out answers that are on topic simply because it takes too much

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Where did I get all this Stuff?

Over time we accumulate stuff. And it’s on you to determine what of that stuff is valuable. You can keep it all, but then it might be too much to look at or you can reel it in and focus on just what brings you Joy. If it brings you Joy, keep it, if it doesn’t, ask why you have it. Each adventure we take on, we garner more stuff, only because from each adventure we want a memento of what we did, what we accomplished, and what it brought to us. All Stuff isn’t bad, but if you can’t