Articles for category: Growth

May 26, 2025

Greg Thomas

Birth of a Mentor

You don’t train to become a mentor before it happens, it just happens. All the mentors I’ve had, they never took any courses to become a mentor, it just happened. People saw them doing their work and thought “I could learn a lot from them” and then they want to learning from them. Mentors aren’t born in the proverbial sense.  The first time someone asks them for advice, guidance, and suggestions – they are what happens next is showing up each day thereafter and hoping their guidance gets passed on to the Mentee.

May 19, 2025

Greg Thomas

Is No Answer Better?

Is No Answer better than an answer? We hope it’s more akin to Schrodinger’s Cat in that there is still hope and we don’t know what we don’t know until we know it. Hope still abounds. In today’s “always on” world of having your phone everywhere, the time for Schrodinger’s Cat to exist becomes shorter and shorter than ever before. So does No Answer, in an always on world, mean something else now?  Does it mean the answer leans more towards No than towards the hope for a Yes? When you don’t get an immediate response from someone what do

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.

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