Month: May 2018

May 31, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Program/Course You Need

I’m in the middle of a program/seminar/project/course (you can call it all of these things).  It has required me to work with a community of people I don’t know to push my learning, goals, thoughts (and yes dreams) further than I have ever thought possible. With each project/prompt, I have somewhere between 10 – 15 colleagues who know WAAAAY more than me helping me to get better, poking holes in my work, pushing me to achieve and not letting me get off easy when I don’t show up to do the work. This morning I woke up to at 16+

May 30, 2018

Greg Thomas

Make Time for the Big Picture

Not the picture in 1 month, 3 months or next year. But the big picture, the one that is 5 years down the road, 10 years down the road – that’s the game you need to be focusing on. That’s the picture you need to figure out a way to make less fuzzy and more clear. That’s the picture that’s worth working on and the one that you requires to make time for each and every day. If you’re always focused on what comes next and what failure today means for tomorrow, then you’re missing where you could be in

May 29, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Late, Late, Late Arrival

You’ve arrived early, waited patiently, planned what you are going to say for the umpteenth time, wondering what else you could have been doing with all this time and then finally they show up. It could be your customer, the doctor, a colleague, anything – but they are late. They have stomped on your time and held you back from what you could have been doing. Maybe they have a reason, a valid one. Maybe they don’t, it’s simply who they are, what they do and what they will do the next time you get together. So if that’s the case,

May 28, 2018

Greg Thomas

The End of Day Rearview

Have you ever noticed at the end of the day, when you get into your car for the drive home, you adjust your mirror. And when you get into your car in the morning to go to work, you adjust it again? What are you adjusting it for? It turns out that when you adjust it at the end of the day, you are generally lowering it.  Maybe because you are a tired, down on the day, ready for a break and hence slouch a bit as you contemplate the day on the ride home. When you go to work

May 25, 2018

Greg Thomas

Listen Up (assuming you want to get better)

There is only one path to getting better at whatever it is you are doing. And it starts with listening to those around you. Listen to their suggestions. Listen to their ideas. Listen to their feedback. Listen to their experience. You don’t need to accept it all, but you need to do more than hear it, you need to listen to it, you need to process it, you need to think about it. And then you need to put your own twist on it. You’re not alone but if you can’t take feedback from others, you always will be.

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