Month: February 2025

February 8, 2025

Greg Thomas

Going Your Way

Things are great when everything is going your way. When the weather is what you want. When your morning beverage has the right of everything in it with nothing to spare. When your code compiles the first time, it does what it’s supposed to do. Pretty much everything and anything you’re doing, is rocking and rolling your way. These are great days – When things Go our Way – and we are happy for them. But there will be days when the world doesn’t go your way, no one agrees with you, your day is filled with arguments and confusion

February 7, 2025

Greg Thomas

All the Reasons Why it Won’t Work

I can sit you down and give you all the reasons why it won’t work, whatever it is you’re doing, whyever it is that you are doing it. I can come up with all those reasons. Anyone can, whether they know your business or not, they can come up with those reasons on the spot. It’s a new market. It’s not proven. Won’t you need more people? What if this happens? Is it worth the risk? You can either accept those reasons as to what they are – someone who went into the future in their time machine, found out

February 6, 2025

Greg Thomas

Prove it

Show me your work? How did you get to the answer? How did you figure it out? What did you to to get here? That’s one way to look at it when someone says “Prove it”, the other way is as a dare when you say you can do something and someone says “Prove it” – “Show Me”. The problem with “Proving it” is that everyone expects the proof to be done now, immediately, this instant, when in many cases it doesn’t go that fast or that quickly. Our response to “Prove it” should always be the same – “Gimme

February 5, 2025

Greg Thomas

Second and Third and Fourth Opinions

Getting additional opinions and input is not about validating that you are right. It’s about validating that you aren’t missing anything.  In each of those successive opinions, there might be an additional grain of wisdom or value that you can implement to what you are doing that will help you along. Treating other people’s input as merely “proof” that you are right is not where their value lies, in it’s showing you what you have missed or where you might go wrong. Never stop seeking out additional inputs if you’re not sure.

February 4, 2025

Greg Thomas

Notebooks Change Your View

A few years ago I went back to using Notebooks more for tracking what I’m doing – read some books on task tracking and bullet journals and the like. Before this, I had been trying to do it all from some pretty nice colour coded and metrics tracking spreadsheets. Here’s the big lesson I took from the switch back to Notebooks. Notebooks change your view every time you look at them – you pause to examine your handwriting, the pen, what you wrote, how fast, what was crossed off, and when. Spreadsheets show you a great view of where you

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