October 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Making Room for Growth

Growth doesn’t happen because you say – “Time for Growth” – it happens when we make time for it when we work towards it when we push the activities holding us back away from it so we can create room to enable it to happen. You might have to get up earlier, you might have to stay up later, or you might have to push out that thing you like to make it happen. These are activities you will most likely need to do if you want to grow.

October 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

Re-establishing Good Habits

Establishing a habit takes effort, we have to push, we have to have focus, we have to try everything once, twice, thrice, and go back and try again. And then we break the habit, then it stops, and we’re not sure what happened, but it breaks and we have to start again.  Only this time, the skills we used to start the habit aren’t going to be the same, instead, we’re going to have to adopt a new set of skills to be reset the habit once more. We’ll need to be patient, we’ll need to see where we went

October 13, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Path is not Linear

There is an Instagram post making the rounds of a metal ball that takes three paths to get to a location. One is linear, with no obstacles, and no dips and the other two have varied paths going up and down. In the end, the paths that go up and down succeed and finish “first”.  Not that being first is the goal, the purpose is to show that the straight, clear path isn’t always the best.  Sometimes you need the dips to gain the moment to become stronger, and faster and push yourself to get out of them. If we

I versus We

When you describe the team you are leading, do you talk in the I or the We? If you talk in the I, then you are not leading a team, you are leading yourself. When you talk about We, you are talking about the team. Managers talk about the I, Leaders talk about the We.

October 11, 2022

Greg Thomas

Your Attitude is the Driver

At the core of being driven to accomplish a task will always be your attitude. If you are constantly complaining, whining, and making excuses for the task at hand, then you are not driven.  You are simply plodding along on a course that is laid out for you. If you want to be driven, then you need to take control of the journey that is in front of  you and make it your own.