Articles for category: Initiative

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Climb

The Climb is arduous, slippery, rocky, fraught with danger. The Climb doesn’t care whether you make it or not, it’s there for you to do what you will with it. The Climb doesn’t care about what threats come your way – whether the weather gets worse or better, whether they’re predators waiting to strike at your weakest moment. The Climb doesn’t care how prepared you are – whether you have a jacket, an extra pair of socks, or a sleeping bag. The Climb is there for you to take on if you so choose. If you want to run or

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Going Up Against the Best

When you go up against the best, you are more than likely going to fall down, trip up, or make a mistake. After all, they are the best, and you are not, so they know how to do everything and anything to stop you in your tracks. But the more you go up against them, the better you will become, the smarter you will get, you will start to see patterns emerge, and you will add them to your toolbox. Eventually, the falling down and trip ups will minimize and you’ll start to hold you own, possibly even surpassing them.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Giving out the Options

Picking the solution is the easy part, it’s the options that take time. The analysis, the evaluations, the comparison, and narrowing down to the most applicable is the most important work that happens before you give out the options. It’s not easy work, but when presented to those who need to pick a solution, it greatly simplifies their lives and makes moving forward that much easier. When the option analysis is convoluted, messy, incomplete, or stretches out anything and everything, the selection of the solution becomes problematic and generally stagnates as confusion sets in. Giving out the Options, is the

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Where You Want to Work?

Truth be told, I have no idea where I want to work right now. I’m still trying to figure that out. But while I’m still trying to figure it out, I’m not going to sit and stare out at the great blue sky and hope it lands in my lap and solves all my problems all at once. That won’t happen. Never has, never will. Doors can open, but generally, we either push them open or pull them open or we walk through. Our actions trigger the opening of the door. So if there is no action, you will never

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Lessons You Learn

The work you do is not necessarily what you’re going to be good at. The work in between that gets the work done is where you are going to excel. In every job, whether it’s fast food, retail, building tables, carpentry, electrical, hedge work, programming, testing, requirements, architecture, etc, etc – it will ALWAYS be the work in between that will make you succeed and it’s here that the greatest lessons you will ever learn will be taken from here. Want to learn a new skill?  Go download a $14 course, buy the book, or get out there and start

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