Articles for category: Growth

November 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Roller

For the first time ever I’ve had to start using a roller on my calf.  I’ve watched people use them over the years and always thought – not me, I won’t need it. Now I do, now it’s something I’m using to stop a muscle from seizing up. Just because you didn’t use it before, or didn’t know about it before, isn’t a reason for you not to give it a shot now.

November 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

Can you Learn Something New?

Everyone answers yes to this. Yes, I want to learn something new. Yes, I can learn something new. Yes, I am a sponge, feed me with all this newfound knowledge. But then when it’s time to put into practice what has been learned, to go through the uncomfortable steps to unlearn the bad and get better, we stop, we grind to a halt and we decide that we really don’t want to learn, to change, but that it’s much easier to simply say we do. The question to ask yourself isn’t if you can learn something new, it’s if you’re

November 1, 2022

Greg Thomas

Who’s the Expert?

The term expert is a tough one because, with the constant change that surrounds us, you’re only an expert for a short period of time before you need to learn something new to maintain your status. Certifications don’t make you an expert, good, but not an expert.  You need experience, you need failure, you need the screw-ups and the attempts to make it better.  This isn’t a knock against certifications, it’s just a fact, you can’t get amazing at something just by reading about it, you need to do it too. Whether they have the certifications or not, those are

October 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

Realizing Your Leadership Value

Each person has a value they bring to the team. They might not know what it is or what their part in it all is, but it’s there, waiting to come out. That’s where you come in, the leader, the one with the plan, the one that sees how the parts fit together, the one that brings it all altogether. Your value is being the leader and that’s what the team needs to grow.

October 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Uncomfortable Development

If you want to grow, develop new skills, and figure out what is wrong with the old ones. You’re going to have to get uncomfortable, otherwise, it’ll never happen. Falling down, messing up, making mistakes – these are all uncomfortable acts that we are all resistant too. But when we let them happen, we grow.