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10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Fixing Anything Mechanical

Can you fix a water heater? Can you fix your furnace? Can you fix the pump that brings water into your house? Maybe 60 years ago, people knew how to fix all these things; now, maybe you are down to being able to fix one, troubleshoot the other, and not even touch the third. Unless, of course, you’re specialized in those things – in which case, congratulations. So many people have stopped wanting to learn and figure out how those things work that you are now an indispensable resource to understanding how these things work, being able to translate the

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

All of Our Jobs are Gone

If you read any news or blog site today, you will know that all of our jobs are gone. If you are sitting in a classroom right now, maybe in your fourth year, ready to get your first job, it is apparently gone, and there is nothing left for you. The degree I graduated with from university is far from what I do today, where the jobs at the time were not there, so I looked elsewhere. Where you start, where you are, is not where you have to end up. But it won’t come easily, you’ll need to work

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

There was Never Enough

Never enough time, resources, money, opportunities, customers, people, etc. There has never been enough, and there never will be. Pick your “thing” you don’t have enough of, it shifts over the course of your career – opportunities, money, earnings, customers – there will never be enough. Knowing there will never be enough, would you change your strategy? Would you take a different approach to what you want to achieve? Would you do something completely different? Or do you have enough, but just aren’t using it in the right way? What is your enough?

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