Articles for category: Drive

January 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

Those Pesky Resolutions

Maybe you didn’t set them on the 31st or the 1st or the 2nd, but come the 3rd, you’re wondering if you should do them. In theory a resolution makes sense – “I resolve to do better at X” or “I resolve to not do Y anymore” – or whatever other variants lie in between. What we fail to miss, is that resolutions are like streaks and creating a new habit – the more you show up, the easier it is to accomplish – BUT, you don’t do it all at once. If I wanted to climb a mountain, I

January 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

Stop the Over Complication

Team gets problem. Team starts working on problem. Problem becomes much bigger than initially thought. Team is confused on where to start and begins implementing process upon process to fix problem. In the middle of fixing problem, team realizes they are stuck and are not sure where to go from here. As they start to demonstrate the problem being solved, the customer starts to ask for other things to be done “at the same time”. Progress grinds to a standstill. What’s happened? They let the problem take over, they took the issue that was given to them and began working

December 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

What Do I need to do to be a ____________?

If you want to play hockey, go get a hockey stick and puck and go play. If you want to build a house, go read the building code and build a house. If you want design websites, download Paint.NET and start painting. If you want to write for a newspaper, start writing articles and submitting them to as many newspapers as you can (or start your own blog). If you want to draw comics, get some paper and pencils, start drawing and publish your own comic. If you want to start coding, download NotePad++ or Visual Code or something else,

December 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

You Don’t Need to Have the Answer

You do need to have the drive to find it. No one has all the answers, anyone who thinks they do is wrong (on oh so many levels). But if you are willing to dig in and do what it takes to find the answer. That’s better than reading it and regurgitating it at a meeting or waiting for someone to give it to you.

December 17, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Boring Work

Nobody “wants” to do the boring work, and yet there it is, always piling up, never going anywhere, until you sit down and start working through the pile. That’s how it works. It doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t ask for help. It just sits and waits. Until you do the work to get it done and move onto the next thing. OR, until you figure out a way to get past it being boring, make it valuable, make it important and worthwhile. Than it’s no longer boring work.

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