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10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Get from Conferences

Conferences are a great opportunity to connect with past and former, colleagues, meet new people, and get an overview of new topics. There are some conference that will deep dive on 2 – 3 core topics but generally, they are a firehose of information coming your way. The locale is different and a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, pick everyone’s brain without work surrounding you, and just overall learn about what does and doesn’t work in the team and what you can do moving forward. I haven’t been to a conference in a long time, but these are

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

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Give it Away

Got too much stuff? Give it away. Don’t know what to do with something after staring at it for days? Give it away. Not sure if you are ever going to use it again? Give it away. Know someone who could use it? Give it away. You don’t need to turn a profit on everything, sometimes you can give it away to those that need it most.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Blocker

When asking someone a question, they might not give you the initial response that you are hoping to receive. But are they blocking you? Are they stopping you in your tracks? Are they preventing you from moving forward? If they are coming back with more questions than statements or redirecting towards other topics – chances are they are blocking. If they are providing well-thought-out explanations that give you an answer to your question (just not the one you hoped for), they are trying to help. Blockers don’t provide well-thought-out answers that are on topic simply because it takes too much