Glimmers of Success

They can be far and wide on a project, especially if it is something new, where you are doing something for the first time, that no one has done before. The time between the success is paved with frustration and anxiety as you wonder whether you should give up and throw the towel in or give it one more try. When you get those successes, those glimmers where what you thought might happen worked, where the steps you laid out had one success out of twenty seven. Hold on to it, those are the moments to focus on and make

June 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Stop Waiting

The only person you are hurting by waiting for someone to come to you. To tell you what to do. To give you your next task. To get that next job interview. To assign you your next project. To review your code. To see if you need more people on your team. To know what training you want to do this year. Is you. Stop waiting for it (whatever “it” is) to come to you and start figuring out a way to go to it.

Your Breakthrough Moment

This is what you’ve been waiting for. This is what you’ve been working towards. This is what you want so badly it hurts. This is what you’ve stayed up late for and come in early to finish. This is what your team has been building towards. And when it happens, make sure you enjoy it, make sure you soak it in and make sure you take a second to appreciate that moment. Because it didn’t happen overnight.

June 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

Did you see it coming?

That career switch? That change in direction on the project? That person on your team that wasn’t happy anymore? That code that failed in the next upgrade? Most times we can see it coming, we have an inkling of what is going to happen, we know something is afoot. And even more, most times (of those most times) we choose to ignore it, hope it doesn’t happen, hope nothing changes, hope we can keep on, keeping on. And then we wonder – why did I not see it coming – when in fact you did.

June 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

File. New Project.

Or CTRL + N. Or whatever keyboard, file combination works for you that signifies the blank slate with something to be created. You can’t go wrong with it. It’s the best feeling.