Articles for category: Initiative

May 3, 2025

Greg Thomas

Dips and Dives

When we dive into something, we jump with focus, poise and to some degree – reckless abandon. The goal is to jump in and get started, it’s not to hold back, we are committed to moving forward and accomplishing something. When we take a dip, we put our foot in first, we test the water, we wait for the feedback and response from all of those around us before we commit to moving forward. Dips give us some reassurance that we are on the right path and give us an opportunity to back out. Dives commit us to the task

May 2, 2025

Greg Thomas

Created By a Factory

Always, always, always give credit to the people that created the thing that you are working on, that you adapted, that you are extending, that you are doing something else with. I’ve watched many a Marvel movie and often wondered why they do not start with the people that created that “thing” that spurned something so incredible. What are we afraid of if that should happen? What would be so wrong if they became more than a byline credit? https://www.cbr.com/deadpool-rob-liefeld-marvel-fallout/ Without the creators, we have nothing to start from, take in or enjoy – this goes beyond comics, but everywhere

April 30, 2025

Greg Thomas

The longevity of Cords

I think I replace more cords over the course of a year then anything else. I can buy them anywhere but sometimes they aren’t “the good ones”, and they don’t last as long. The fall apart easily and stop charging after a few months. Why? No one knows, it’s like the lost sock in your dryer, they just go away, never to be heard from again. And then you forget the right the adapter, or maybe it doesn’t line up and of course everyone has a different device so now we are trying to figure out who has what and

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

April 24, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Final Test

The Last Test is the one that will determine your future. It’s not the last test, because now you have to take another one. And that won’t be the last one either. There is never a last test, only the next test. And after the Next Test, you want to push for there to be another one, because that’s how you keep moving forward.