Articles for category: Growth

April 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

How you Finish

You can stumble out of the blocks, you can mess it up in the middle, you can fight down the line and make every conceivable mistake along the way – and still, finish strong. But when you start again, you have to learn from everything you did before to grow.  Chances are you are going to make a whole new set of mistakes, but you will have learned from the ones you made before and now will be on a path to learn new lessons and finish stronger than before once more.

April 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

Sit Less with Stefan Zavalin

I love meeting new people and hearing about their hacks to productivity. My favourite part about chatting with Stefan Zavalin was that you don’t start going 8 hours with a Standing Desk on Day One – you do a little each day and keep building on that success. It sounds like common sense and it’s the reminder we need.  The full episode is here.

April 20, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Key to a Good Tweak

The key to a good tweak is simple, do it at the right time and don’t blow up what exists. Switching tires that you have a hunch might do better on the last lap – good tweak. Wanting to replace the engine on the last lap – bad tweak. The key is doing it at the right time and not putting yourself into such a hole that you can’t recover if it doesn’t work it out. That’s why it’s a tweak and not a change.

The Path to Bug Fixes

Fixing bugs isn’t the problem. Figuring out how they occur, now that’s the problem.  That’s where we get hung up and where we spend the bulk of our time.  That’s where we grind the gears trying to figure out what we are doing and what the next should be. And though this is the hardest of steps, it’s the most rewarding, we learn the most from them.  If someone just gave us the answer and told us to put X code in Y line, we would never learn anything.  We would simply learn how to be great cut and pasters

April 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Every Day Can You Grow

Growth doesn’t happen all at once, in one day, or when you go to sleep. It happens when you show up each and every day and chip away at what it is you are trying to succeed at. It happens because you’re not willing to give up and keep going back to the desk, the computer, the notebook and make it happen. But it starts with realizing that you can’t cram it in to a one week training session.