Month: December 2024

December 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

Missing Puzzle Pieces

I recently spent a good amount of time working on a puzzle. It was a good puzzle, it would have looked great. It did look great. Save for the +14 missing pieces. This bugged me, all that effort and still not a complete puzzle.  I looked everywhere for them and then stared down at my masterpiece. All I could think was – “I finished it” – but it left me feeling empty because it wasn’t perfect. For context, here is the puzzle, isn’t it wonderful? I could wax poetic about how nothing comes out perfect and you simply need to

December 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

Day Long Meetings

They can be draining. Or they can be invigorating. It all depends on the energy you bring to the session. How you start, sets the tone for the day, for what you want to do and accomplish and get done. Contributing is key, the team doesn’t need a silent watcher doing other work. If you are remote, get ready to be on your camera, get ready to be engaged. Stepping out for a few minutes for that oh-so-glorious cup of tea is encouraged, but otherwise, stay on board. You can’t win every battle, choose the ones that matter most. And

December 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

Losing Creative Flow

When things go wrong, sideways, and you feel lost – all creative flow goes out the window. It’s one thing if creativity is a heavy part of your job – your livelihood depends on that flow existing to some extent – so you’ll need to put in the time. But when you don’t have that dependency, it’s an ebb and flow and the hardest thing with any creative endeavor is to get started. Show me someone who does creative work (drawing, coding, writing, speaking, etc, etc) and has never lost their flow? It’s impossible. Yeah, sit down at the chair

December 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

Your Daily Delivery

We should ask ourselves “How was our day?” Our days are always different and that question alone has such a complex answer to it. Instead, we should ask ourselves. What did we accomplish? What did we deliver? The first question, our brains will go immediately to meetings and emails and we’ll think “Ugh what did I do today?”. But when you start with what you accomplished, what you delivered, all of a sudden all those small things that looked bad or not important – all those little meetings and emails – they add up to something great that gone done

December 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Start Thinking of Next Year Now

You’re getting near the end of the year. Now is the time to start thinking of the changes you want to make next year. Not 2 hours before the end of the year, or 20 minutes into it. Now. Take the time, roll it over in your head, now is the time.

© 2025 Rambli by Greg Thomas. All rights reserved.