Articles for category: Drive

March 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

Scheduling Helps… when it doesn’t break

Living by a schedule works, it helps give you consistency and reproducibility in all that you do. It takes the decisions away from what you are trying to accomplish and simplifies your decision-making. When it breaks, it doesn’t go that well, you fall off, and you’re not sure what you should do next, how to do you get back on, where do you go from here. Forget the big picture of what you should do, and focus on the one thing in front of you do that, then the next thing, then the next. The key is not to get

March 17, 2024

Greg Thomas

Not Can, But Will

Everyone can do something. But not everyone will do something. Some know the difference between those two words, but many don’t. Don’t say – “I can do it”, say – “I will do it” – own your decision, find your direction and push forward to it.

March 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

Where do you Begin?

On Page One. File >> New Project. “How do I do this?” Reading the Instructions. Pressing Play. One Step in front of the other. You can start anywhere and everywhere, the options are there, you just have to start.

March 15, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Challenge of Simplicity

In everything, we always say – “Keep it Simple” because that’s what makes it happen. Take out all the complexity, and all the noise, and boil the problem down to the simplest of elements. Move forward. Look up. One line at a time. One word at a time. The challenge with simplicity is that we don’t always see the result from that simplicity and get frustrated that we’re not where we’re supposed to be and what we’re supposed to be doing – when in fact we are.

March 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

What do you Get from your Status Meetings?

If it’s “not much” – chances are they aren’t as good as they should be. If you are the one running them and that’s your answer, I’d put a pause on them now.  Of all the people in the room, you’re the one who needs to be getting the most from those meetings and if you’re not, well there is a big, big problem. And if you don’t know what you need to get out of them, chances are your team doesn’t know either. You don’t need a meeting that gets you nowhere, you need value and this isn’t giving

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