Month: July 2019

July 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

Don’t Get Rid of Your Outlet

We all need an outlet, somewhere to escape to where we think of nothing else but the outlet and if we’re lucky, all of our ideas percolate in the back of our heads. And if they are not percolating in the back of our mind, you still need that outlet. That outlet should not be a side hustle or a money making venture. It shouldn’t be something that focuses you to learn something new. It shouldn’t require anyone and in most cases is better if it doesn’t so it can give you that moment of respite solely so you can

July 16, 2019

Greg Thomas

That whole Soft Skills Thing

I enjoy reading the Gaping Void – it’s a great mix of word and art that drives the point home, all day, every day. But their recent article on Soft Skills – re-ignited that argument that has always been raging inside of me – Soft skills, hard, skills, medium-baked skills, school educated skills, street skills, etc, etc. They are all skills, you don’t need to differentiate them, it’s time to move on and understand that they are all critical to your success. You need skills to survive.

July 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

Getting out of Frustrated

The easiest thing to have happen to us is to get frustrated. We try something, we mess up, we get frustrated. We put all our our time into making something perfect and the last piece breaks, we get frustrated. We write all this incredible code only to be hit with one final brick wall that is insurmountable, we get frustrated. Getting frustrated is easy, it’s the go to emotion, the first emotion we feel when something goes against what we had hoped it would be in our head. Changing that go to emotion to anything else, no matter what your

July 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Only Person to Believe

If you can’t believe in you, then who will? It doesn’t mean you need to be perfect. It doesn’t mean you need to win every day. It doesn’t you need to be right all the time. It doesn’t mean you need to have the best looking outfit. Whatever it is that you do have, make sure you believe in it, because that’s you and that’s what we need more of. More people believing in where they want to go next and how they want to get there.

July 11, 2019

Greg Thomas

Come in Last

You don’t need to be first at everything. You shouldn’t be. If you are, how do you know what it feels like to struggle and achieve something? How to work for something? How to fight for it? You never will, until you find something you come in last at and have to work your up to.

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