Month: March 2025

March 31, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Teacher’s Pivot

I have a ton of respect for everything that teachers do. They spend time outside of their day putting together intricate learning plans that are geared towards helping kids grow and learn all within the constraints they are provided. Who wouldn’t want to go on a random field trip when the opportunity presented itself because the weather was snowing outside? But they can’t. And then when the lesson plans don’t click, they need to pivot, and pivot quickly to ensure the day is not a complete loss and the kids leave having learned something. The Pivot is what changes the

March 30, 2025

Greg Thomas

What Gets You Excited?

Writing Unit Tests? Making Lesson Plans? Making Crafts? Writing Code? Deploying Code? Making Food? Building Chairs? Designing Chairs? Then do that, do that thing that makes your heart skip a beat and gets you excited for what is to come next.  Do that thing that gets you out of bed in the morning and gets you driving into the office each morning, even if the drive is an hour long.  Or better yet, makes the 45-minute bus ride worth it. The issue isn’t how long it takes us to get into the office. The issue is whether we’re excited enough

March 29, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Day You Move Forward

The leaving of any job is the hardest part of the job.  No matter how long you’ve been there, 2 days, 2 months, 2 years – it’s never easy. There is always a fear that you are abandoning or leaving those behind. You’re not, you’re moving forward, the first step is the hardest toward something new. That’s why not everyone takes it. It’s easier to stay where you are and not step forward. But the day you do take that first step, is the day everything changes.

March 29, 2025

Greg Thomas

How Was Your Day?

Instead of waiting till the end of the day to ask this question or have this question to be asked of yourself, let’s rephrase it and retime it. At the beginning of the day – “How do you want your day to be?” Start there, take 5 minutes, how do you want to answer this question at the end of the day? Now make that your day. Make your day, don’t let it happen to you.

March 27, 2025

Greg Thomas

When You Can’t See the End

The end is not always clear, but the beginning always is,  it’s always right there in front of you. Clear as day, the beginning is always there. Start or not Start. Begin or not Begin. There is no confusion as to what happens next, it’s like Yoda says – “Do or Do Not, there is no Try”. Start or Don’t Start, there is no End. When you don’t start, you’ll never be able to see the end. But when you do take that first step, it still might not be clear, but the end is that much closer.

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