Articles for category: Initiative

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

March 25, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Work You Don’t Do

The Work You Don’t Do is always harder to see. The not complaining about others on your team. The not doing only what’s in your bug list. The waiting for work to be assigned before doing more. The not offering to help others. The begrudgingly doing the tasks that aren’t part of your job but someone has to do them. These are the work we never want to do, we never want to be a part of, we never deliver. Because these are not work.

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