Articles for category: Drive

March 26, 2024

Greg Thomas

It’s Not about How Long it Takes

Take as long as you need. But get there. If you’re not planning on getting there, abandon it. There are things that have a time crunch on them, figure out if it’s for you or not (perhaps it’s not). That’s okay. What isn’t okay is rushing to get things done and making a mess of it.

March 24, 2024

Greg Thomas

See all the Angles

You only have the solution to the problem when you see all the angles to the problem. And you only see all the angles to the problem when you admit you don’t know everything and you need to figure out a different way to make it work. Seeing all the angles starts with admitting you don’t have the answer.

Old Ideas, Can Live Again

Old ideas don’t die. They get re-packaged, updated, built upon, and shipped in something different and better than before. They evolve. Just because you did something before and it didn’t work, doesn’t mean it won’t work this time with a few tweaks to it.

March 19, 2024

Greg Thomas

Fall back, Launch Forward

Last week, we turned the clocks back – cue all the noise about Daylight Savings. The thing is everyone fell back. The question is whether you were willing to launch forward while everyone else was.

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