Articles for category: Initiative

November 15, 2024

Greg Thomas

Where you Start From

You are here. That is it, right now you are here. You want to get to some other point, over there. I could draw it out, but everyone’s drawing would be different – “you are here, you want to get to there (maybe you even need to)”. Do you know the steps to take to get there? Do you know what has to be done to get there? Are you willing to invest in each of those steps to make it happen? Everyone wants something and to get somewhere, but not everyone is willing to do the work to close

November 12, 2024

Greg Thomas

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Three more to the side and you do another lap. If you then jump up and over you might have a better chance. Better yet, we learned a long time ago on a Lion Hunt, that you couldn’t go around it, over it, under it but had to go through it. There are no clear paths, except the one you make for yourself. Follow your own path and don’t count the steps.

November 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Choices in Failure

You have two choices in failure. Accept and move forward. Stew about it, get mad at it, live in it, always relate to it. You can look at those two statements and say – “I’m definitely #1” – but many people are not, #1 is who we want to be, but can’t, #2 is who many are. Take the time to stew about it, take the time to think, not too long though, because you need to move forward – we don’t need you living in it, you’re better than that.

November 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Heavy Work

The heavy work doesn’t lift itself. It can’t happen without you pushing up against it, nudging it, moving it, and eventually lifting it. If everyone could do it, everyone would be doing the heavy lifting, but everyone can’t. You can fed up with the heavy work, frustrated, angry, and ticked off at it.  You can yell and scream at it and see how that goes. Or you can figure it out, find a solution, move forward and past it.

November 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Can I have a Moment?

Another set of SPAMMY emails I receive. “Can I have a moment?” Well if we’ve never met, and you emailed me out of the middle of nowhere (honestly I have no idea where you live, for all I know you could be on a space shuttle), chances are no we can’t have a moment? Because a moment, that word, means something treasured, something of value, some level of trust that has built up over time that I give to people who have earned it and that I get back from people where I have earned it with them. You can