Articles for category: Drive

May 2, 2018

Greg Thomas

The New ABCs

Always Be Closing – if you haven’t seen this before, check it out here. But do we ALWAYS need to be closing? What about ABL?  Always Be Learning. Or ADL?  Always be Delivering. Or ABT?  Always be Thinking. Or ABI?  Always be Innovating. Or ABG?  Always be Giving? Or ABE?  Always be Experimenting. Or ABF?  Always be Failing. Or ABC?  Always be Creating. Or ABC? Always be Changing. Just not closing, I don’t think we always have to be closing, there are so many other things we could always be doing.

April 26, 2018

Greg Thomas

On Holding Back

The only person you are hurting when you hold back is yourself. So why hold back? Why not give it your all every day? Why not treat every day like the day before vacation? Why not take a stand and try something new that no one else is doing? Instead of bringing your “okay” work to the table and letting someone else decide if it is “good enough” bring your best quality work so when you leave it doesn’t matter what anyone else decides? The goal, as always, isn’t for you to compare yourself with everyone else, but to compare

April 23, 2018

Greg Thomas

Work When you are Weak

When your inspiration is low. When your last experiment failed. When you don’t have any ideas. When everything you have tried has failed. When you feel down on yourself. When you tried your best and were critiqued by everyone. When the bills are coming in and the checks aren’t there. When the followers have left. When the bots are not even liking your work. That’s when you sit down, at the table, just you and no one else and you work. You figure the way out, you find the path, you grind it out and you turn it around. But

April 10, 2018

Greg Thomas

Commitment vs Focus

Focus enables us to zero in on a task and force ourselves to work until we complete that singular task. Commitment is the dedication that fuels our focus. We might be focusing on a few tasks at any point in time, but if we are not committed to them, they will never get done. We’ll look at them, stare at them, turn them around, and figure out which is the best way to attack them and then dive in. In most cases, the problem isn’t in our commitment but what we have focused on, we picked the wrong thing and now we

April 3, 2018

Greg Thomas

What’s in a Name?

Apparently stock price, recognition and some perceived value when it comes to following the latest trends. But those are fads and will quickly pass when everyone sees you for who you are. For the most part, you’ve had the same name all your life and in the significant majority of these cases, you didn’t choose it. It was given to you. What you did with it was up to you (sorry horoscopes and name generators you really didn’t help). If you want to call your company – “Makio”, “IWorkOALotto” or “Happis” – go for it, find the domain, make sure