Month: January 2018

January 24, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Losing Difference

Beating the competition without even trying isn’t a win, it’s a loss. It’s a loss because you are not showing up to do your best work but rather to do the work that is “okay” and “passable”. That feeling of winning will last for another 15 minutes. But giving your all and losing? Trying to raise your game that much more and not quite getting there? That’s worth it because now you’re getting better, smarter, faster and stronger. Now you’re making a difference, now it’s fun.

January 23, 2018

Greg Thomas

Create Your Own Metrics in 2018

So after writing Measure Your Mark for 2017, I thought I should try and create some own metrics that I wanted to measure my year against. This isn’t about followers, likes, comments, subscriptions but rather everything I want to do. I wrote them all down, stick around and we’ll see how I do at the end of 2018 and maybe even hear how you did. Here are the guidelines/suggestions; Do more than what you are doing now. Go out on a limb and try something new. You must identify how you will measure yourself – completion, attempt, whatever. If part

January 22, 2018

Greg Thomas

Make Me A Leader

In today’s episode Greg & Colin talk about what it takes to be a real leader and whether that’s actually something we should all want. We also talk about whether you need to be a leader to move up and Greg discusses lessons learned from Ernest Shackleton (great name) and recommends checking out books on his adventures and leadership (link below). As always, if you like the podcast please listen, follow and share. And Check us out on facebook! Check out “Shackleton’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer” https://www.amazon.ca/Shackletons-Way-Leadership-Antarctic-Explorer/dp/0142002364)[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6151586/height/200/width/450/theme/standard/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”200″ width=”450″ placement=”bottom” theme=”standard”]

January 19, 2018

Greg Thomas

Sniffing Markers: Ep 14 – Accountability & Empowerment

In today’s (New Year’s!) episode, Greg & Colin talk about Accountability and Empowerment. We talk about the difference between these two concepts and what kind of team members come out of accountability and empowerment cultures. We discuss our own experiences and how to empower to create true leaders. If you like show don’t forget to rate us, review us and share with us on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/sniffingmarkerspodcast If you have an idea for a show, drop us a line on our FB page and we’ll gladly get on it.[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6105010/height/0/width/0/theme/standard/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”” width=”” placement=”bottom” theme=”standard”]

January 18, 2018

Greg Thomas

Fighting the Fear and Anxiety Monster

On a recent episode of The Sniffing Markers Podcast, we talked about Fear and Anxiety and which ways we both try to get over it. Not being a psychologist in any way, shape or form the only way I have ever found to work through my own Anxiety is to break it into as many steps as possible and tackle each one at a time. Each alone are minuscule and useless, but together they can get you through it. Are you on a late night deployment that’s going sideways and it’s your code that’s blowing up? Get the logs. Open the

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