Articles for category: Drive

October 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

When the Project is Ready?

If the answer takes an hour of meeting with pontificating questions that challenge that simple question, then there is no need for the meeting. Instead, there is an immediate need to figure out where you are, after that it’s simple math. A simple calculation… Here is where we are + What has changed that we didn’t know before + Our Updated Buffer (notice no subtraction of “effort” based theatrics)

October 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

Writing New Code

Writing new code is a great release for whatever is ailing you. It’s that moment when we go from having nothing to creating something that absolutely knocks our socks off. It can be 2 or it can 100 lines, but at the end of the day it is code and if it runs, you created something.

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

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.