Month: April 2024

April 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

Focused Starts

When starting a new project it’s almost as though you need someone standing over your shoulder going – “Smaller”. And then you make things a bit smaller. And then they say – “Focus it down more” And then you focus your intent a bit more. And then they say – “Get rid of the extra and minimize it.” And then you take away all the bells and whistles. And then they say – “What’s left that’s making it feel like a mountain?” And then you strip away that and what you’re left with is the barest of intentions of what

April 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Editing Pen

The Editing Pen has no care for what it crosses out. It rips through your carefully meticulated words and strips away everything. It doesn’t care if it is red, blue, black, or green – it has the same job – cut out what doesn’t work. It doesn’t care what your investment was. It doesn’t matter how many parties you miss. It rips it apart until there is nothing left until all that is left is the simplication of your glorious idea and what it is mean to be. The editing pen does that work for you,  as hard as it

April 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Generating Spin

Spin is generated by motion. Motion takes movement (obviously). Movement is generated by taking one step forward, not looking back, not worrying about the stumbles, and just moving forward, one step at a time. You can’t reverse spin, it can slow down, it can falter, but it always picks up again, if you let it. But it starts with motion (obviously), which is the execution of an idea (which doesn’t require motion, which is not so obvious).

April 2, 2024

Greg Thomas

What Meetings Used To Be

When they were smaller, you didn’t know you were having them. When you started using chat, you didn’t realize how much faster and simpler they made your life. The first time you had a call with more than two people you marveled at how much you got done in such a short time. When you got together to discuss a topic, a point, a problem – you didn’t need to write copious notes and have follow-up apps for follow-ups, everyone knew what had to happen next and they did it. The first time you had a huge town hall and

April 1, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Grunt Work

It doesn’t change, it’s still there, and it never goes away. It never expires. You can think you’re past it, that you never need to do it anymore, but you do, it was to get done. Your avoidance of it is what is holding you back from finishing it. The question you have to ask is whether you’re willing to continually hold yourself back from bigger things by not doing the grunt work that you could do in your sleep.

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