Articles for category: Drive

April 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

Find your Schedule

For the past few weeks, many of have been working from home, trying to find that new rhythm that will put us back into that ever present flow that will let us succeed where we once did so easily. But that flow isn’t going to come as easy as we think. There are new hurdles to overcome, new obstacles, new co-workers who we now share everything with from internet to space to lunches. You can’t continue from where you once were but you can establish something new and that something new starts with establishing a schedule. A plan, a list

March 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

Make the Routine

Here is one thing that has always served me well – make a routine. It doesn’t have to be the same thing day after day after day, it can vary per day, but whatever it is find it. If on Monday you get up early and write, and on Tuesday you get up early and Exercise and on Thursday before you go to bed you do a puzzle, that is a routine, that is the routine that is needed. Routines and their successes are what transfer from one moment to the other. Code Your Way Up is available today for

March 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remember the Actions

Over time, people will forget what was said. It doesn’t mean it will be ignored, but over time what will stand out, will be our actions. Think about all the great leaders and teams you have worked with and do you remember all the witty quotes they said at meetings or when they were compiling their code? No, you remember that they were there, late into the night compiling their code and that they lead those meetings when no one else will. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and

March 18, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Hard Part about Community

Building and forming a community is hard, more so today, then normally. The hardest part about getting involved in a community? Realizing that we all have a part to play, we all can’t do the same thing, and that to be successful we all must realize that we’re in it together. Online communities flourish because those that join, want to do all of those things – they see a community which is modeled to their wants and desires and are drawn to it. Today though, we aren’t being drawn to our communities by want or desire, but by need and

March 11, 2020

Greg Thomas

Find your Release Anchor

Anchors are big, heavy pieces of metal that you drop out of a boat when you’re close to land so your boat doesn’t drift away. They keep you in one spot. Too often in a release, where we started is not where we end up. What was originally meant to be the release, is no longer the release and what we are shipping is something vastly different than what was originally intended. For this reason, releases need to have anchors. They need to have that connection to what was intended when the idea for the release was conceived. They need