Articles for category: Growth

May 9, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Offer Dilemma

There are two sides to an offer – the Offeror and the Offeree. One who makes it and one you hope will accept it. In a given situation, you are never both (otherwise why?) The Offeror is trying to determine what they are willing to part with. The Offeree is then in the position to determine how much value they place on what is being given to them. The problem with this arrangement is that most times the Offeree walks into thinking – “Let’s see what I can get” – instead of knowing their value ahead of time. Over time

May 8, 2025

Greg Thomas

What’s In a Fix?

Does it permanently fix your problem? Does it create a new problem? Does it look worse than it did before? Does it get you over the hump today, but you’ll have work to do tomorrow? Does it achieve what you were hoping for? Is it even possible? Is it so small, that no one will care? There are many types of fixes, knowing which one you are doing and what the expectation of it is will drastically change your approach to the work you are doing. On the flip side, what you bring to a fix, what you do every

May 6, 2025

Greg Thomas

Back into the Groove

It takes more work to get out of a groove than it does to get into one. When you are in a groove, you are making a conscious choice to push out of the groove onto new territory. And yet, when it comes to “getting back into the groove” we make it that much harder on ourselves to get back into it, despite the groove still being there (i.e., the gym, your work, etc). The only hard part about getting back into the groove is staying out of it for too long.

April 28, 2025

Greg Thomas

The GPS Got it Wrong

I had my first experience a while back with my GPS saying one thing and the roads saying the other. In this case, the picture on the GPS displayed a highway sign that said “left is south, right is north” on the road ahead – “left is north, right is south”. I would have loved to taken a picture of this juxtaposition but at that point in the road, I had cars behind me during rush hour. Everything that we think is perfect, no matter how many trials it has been through, can get it wrong. We followed the GPS,

April 26, 2025

Greg Thomas

Roll with It

Weather Events happen. Work Events happen. Family Events happen. All types of events that are outside of your control happen and can shift your day on a dime, changing everything you thought your day was going to be about into something else. You can rail against it all, or figure out a way to roll with it. You can’t change a downpour all day when you have planned a picnic (but you can have the picnic inside). You can’t change the project you’ve been on for much that has been scuttled and now you’re onto something else. You can’t change

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