Month: March 2020

March 31, 2020

Greg Thomas

Know Thy Tools

Working remote isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do, many do and are struggling with it. A quick way to get over the hump of it is to take a moment and learn the tools you need to use to be successful. You’ve already learned these tools in the office setting – how to say Hi to people at the beginning of the day, how to greet people when they enter a meeting, how to walk over to someone’s desk and ask them for help – you’ve learned all these norms because you took the time to learn

March 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

Take a Break

I have played more video games in the past week than I probably have in the past year, easily. I have walked my dog more in the last few weeks than I did in the last month. I have watched more local news about my community, about those around me than I ever have (perhaps since I was a child). You don’t need to be doing something productive 24/7 to “get ahead”, you can do something that wastes an insurmountable amount of time if it gives you the break you need to get back in the game. That’s what breaks

March 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

Make the Routine

Here is one thing that has always served me well – make a routine. It doesn’t have to be the same thing day after day after day, it can vary per day, but whatever it is find it. If on Monday you get up early and write, and on Tuesday you get up early and Exercise and on Thursday before you go to bed you do a puzzle, that is a routine, that is the routine that is needed. Routines and their successes are what transfer from one moment to the other. Code Your Way Up is available today for

March 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Focus

It’s getting harder to maintain our focus on what needs to be done vs what is happening all around us. We are being torn in fifteen different directions at once with everything breaking at the same time. Our initial reaction is and always will be to yell out – “Hold on, let me think about this.” – but we don’t have that luxury around us. It reminds me of a release that is going sideways, customers are calling because things are breaking, vendors are calling because software is failing, managers are angry because it went out the door – there

March 25, 2020

Greg Thomas

Stay Still

With all that is happening in the world around us, everything is being affected, even our daily discourse and what we write about. Staying still is very hard to do. Our parents have been trying to get us to do it since we were kids – “Sit Down, Stay Still, Don’t Move!” How long did you last? Not long I imagine, I sure didn’t. But now we are having to stay still for a different reason, one that not only affects us but those around you. It’s hard, but if you think of those around you, it gets easier. Code

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