Month: May 2017

May 3, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Accidental Exit

I once hired someone to work with me on a few projects but we never had the chance to actually, side-by-side work together during our tenure together. They left before that could happen – I called it the Accidental Exit. Sure we talked, discussed progress on projects and we might have been on the same project but in varying different roles, but we were never in the trenches together for a project. When they left they told me their one disappointment was this lost opportunity on never really working together – being in the trenches together, slogging through the problems.

May 2, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Freelance Network Hustle

Freelancing is a different beast than consulting and contracting when it comes to sales. Whereas in consulting and contracting you might have another company in front of you selling your wares and services, when you’re freelancing, it’s all on you. As a Freelancer, you need to network, you need to hustle, you need to focus your pitch and you need to practice it with anyone that will listen. You also need to get over the fact that you will deliver bad pitches, that your message will be off point in the beginning and that it might take longer than you

May 1, 2017

Greg Thomas

Failure To Notice

You are going to screw up, something is going to go wrong, what you are trying to accomplish will not work. You will fail. But worse than your failure, will be your inability to see that you have failed, to take the opportunity to learn from it and make yourself better next time. Celebrating failure is great, it signifies effort, endurance and commitment to keep trying. Not learning from failure ensures that you will inevitably fail once again, in the same fashion, over and over again. Take the time to do more than celebrate your failure, take the time to

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