Articles for category: Growth

February 7, 2025

Greg Thomas

All the Reasons Why it Won’t Work

I can sit you down and give you all the reasons why it won’t work, whatever it is you’re doing, whyever it is that you are doing it. I can come up with all those reasons. Anyone can, whether they know your business or not, they can come up with those reasons on the spot. It’s a new market. It’s not proven. Won’t you need more people? What if this happens? Is it worth the risk? You can either accept those reasons as to what they are – someone who went into the future in their time machine, found out

February 5, 2025

Greg Thomas

Second and Third and Fourth Opinions

Getting additional opinions and input is not about validating that you are right. It’s about validating that you aren’t missing anything.  In each of those successive opinions, there might be an additional grain of wisdom or value that you can implement to what you are doing that will help you along. Treating other people’s input as merely “proof” that you are right is not where their value lies, in it’s showing you what you have missed or where you might go wrong. Never stop seeking out additional inputs if you’re not sure.

February 4, 2025

Greg Thomas

Notebooks Change Your View

A few years ago I went back to using Notebooks more for tracking what I’m doing – read some books on task tracking and bullet journals and the like. Before this, I had been trying to do it all from some pretty nice colour coded and metrics tracking spreadsheets. Here’s the big lesson I took from the switch back to Notebooks. Notebooks change your view every time you look at them – you pause to examine your handwriting, the pen, what you wrote, how fast, what was crossed off, and when. Spreadsheets show you a great view of where you

February 3, 2025

Greg Thomas

Measure Your Mark

You’re one month in, it’s time to Measure your Mark. What have you accomplished? How far have you come? What has faltered? What is working? What isn’t? Is it time to put some deliverables aside in favour of others? Have your priorities changed? Every month, you should be asking yourself these questions on the month before so you are not just moving forward, but moving forward in the right direction, the direction you want to be moving in. This isn’t a Performance Review, think of it as a long jump, you’ve set your mark, now it’s time to spend the

February 1, 2025

Greg Thomas

Your Roadway

Planes need a roadway to take off and land. There are enough movies out there for everyone to know this, there is no mystery, it is simply what is. To gain speed, accelerate and maintain traction, you need a roadway to do it. What everyone has for a roadway is different from one another.  Some might not need a longer stretch, others might. In the end, it’s yours to determine, discover and implement. The last word being the most important, is what you implement. Find your roadway and run it.

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