Articles for category: Growth

April 8, 2023

Greg Thomas

Reading Helps

I go in spurts of reading where I definitely don’t read as much as I should. But every time I go back to it, no matter how long I have stayed away from it. Every page and chapter I read, my mind becomes overflowing with ideas. It’s the kick to make you think of other ideas and maybe it’s not reading for you, but whatever it is, find it and keep doing it.

Free Time

Do you have any? Take it. Better yet if you don’t have it, schedule it into your life. We all need time to breathe, to the game, to read, to draw, to run, to workout, to do whatever it is that gives us a chance to catch our breath and feel better about ourselves and everything around us. The best thing about Free Time is that our minds wander and we take a second look at what we’re doing and what we should be working on more. All because we took a moment to think about it.

The Plan to Grow

Do you have a Plan to Grow? To improve? To get better? To close the gaps that are keeping you up at night? If not, take 30 minutes, (yes that’s all it will take) and come up with one.  If you need to put your tomato timer on it to do it, then do it. And if you are still trying to find your 30 minutes because it’s “too much” – ask yourself that same question the next time you leave a 30-minute meeting where you said nothing.

Waiting for your Next Review

If you’re waiting to see how you are doing based on the results of your next review, you’ve already lost. You know how you are doing. You know what you need to work on. You know what your strengths are. Performance Reviews are a confirmation of what you should already know. So go fix what you know you need to work on.

March 31, 2023

Greg Thomas

Learn By Doing

You gather a foundation when you learn by reading, watching, assimilating, asking questions, and comprehending – that is foundational learning. But real learning?  Real understanding? You learn by doing. If you’re not doing, you’re not learning.