Articles for category: Initiative

April 12, 2025

Greg Thomas

Situp Straight

How often did you hear this growing up? “Sit up or you’ll be a slouch forever!” When was the last time someone said it to you? Did they finally give up on you? Did it ever resonate with you or do you still slouch? Is it one of those things that never caught on? I’m not the best at Sitting Up and often find myself, reminding myself to do it or seeing someone else slouching and thinking “Wow is that me”. Was there a better way to get me SitUp growing up? Was there another way to instill this habit

April 7, 2025

Greg Thomas

How Great Are You?

Are you a rockstar? A ninja? A guru? An expert? A 3x allstar? Or are you simply confident enough in your abilities that you don’t need to be measured by labels and will let you be the measurement of how good you are? Your abilities, your skills, your attitude, your composure, everything you bring to the table – that says how good you are. Good people need to hear how good they are on an ongoing basis so they can keep telling themselves that story over and over again. Great people keep doing what they are doing, not even thinking

April 2, 2025

Greg Thomas

What Setback?

Not where you hoped you would be? Not at the job you think you should have? Didn’t get through the first interview round? Your certification exam took a slight detour? You can look at these as either setbacks or steps to growth and learning. If you yearn for nostalgia, screenshot them, put them in a folder, forget about them, and revisit them in 3 years, then ask yourself was it a setback or a step forward?

April 1, 2025

Greg Thomas

Embrace the Calamity

Everything can and will go wrong. Your plans will go sideways. The idea you had to build on a platform, that platform went bust. What you thought would work, will no longer work. The API interface you are building against will be deprecated in 3 months. You can either rant and rave about the situation you’re in, about everything going wrong, or you can embrace the calamity and chart a new path. Five years ago, many companies, organizations, and people charted new paths when calamity was all around them.

March 30, 2025

Greg Thomas

What Gets You Excited?

Writing Unit Tests? Making Lesson Plans? Making Crafts? Writing Code? Deploying Code? Making Food? Building Chairs? Designing Chairs? Then do that, do that thing that makes your heart skip a beat and gets you excited for what is to come next.  Do that thing that gets you out of bed in the morning and gets you driving into the office each morning, even if the drive is an hour long.  Or better yet, makes the 45-minute bus ride worth it. The issue isn’t how long it takes us to get into the office. The issue is whether we’re excited enough

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