Articles for category: Growth

11 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

11 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

11 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

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Free Work

The Free Work will help you grow, but it might not pay the bills. The Free Work will teach you skills you might not have received anywhere else, but they won’t be written on paper. The Free Work will open doors and achieve goals you never thought possible, but you might have to pass through many to get there. The Free Work will help you grow, but it won’t be easy.

12 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Record Books

“One for the Record Books” is generally thought of as that one moment in time where something was so great, that it made it into some great record book of tracking. What book? Where is this book? It can’t be the Guinness Book of Records? Are all your accomplishments in there too?  Mine? They don’t need to be, they don’t have to be, the only record book that matters is the one that you keep to track yourself. How are you doing?  What are you working towards?  What matters most? Do the books refer to your family, your friends, or

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