Articles for category: Growth

February 22, 2018

Greg Thomas

Invest in the Mundane

If cool powerpoint decks are not your speciality – buy one. If running payroll is not your thing – find a partner that does it. If your website is lacking that certain panache – find someone and pay them. If your social media knowledge is limited to posting food pics – find someone who can broaden your horizon. If designing a logo is outside your expertise – there are some great sites that take it from hours to minutes. The point is, don’t waste your energy worrying about the mundane.  Invest in it and focus on the work that really

February 16, 2018

Greg Thomas

Getting it Right for One

Stop worrying about Getting it Right for all and start worrying about Getting it Right for One. One size doesn’t fit all. One approach won’t make everyone happy. What worked for one, will not work for the other. But maybe that one that you are focussing, will turn into two and that two into four and that four into eight, etc, etc, etc. But you’ll never know unless you focus on that one first, because that one is where the magic happens, not with that 100,000.

February 6, 2018

Greg Thomas

Bad Weather Forecasts

If bad weather is on the horizon, we plan our day in an attempt to mitigate its effects. We hear the doom and gloom that keeps building to a crescendo until. It never comes. It wasn’t as bad as we thought. Sure it might have happened a little. But not to the extent that we thought it would. Such as everything you are doing, where sometimes what you forecast is worse than what really happened.

January 26, 2018

Greg Thomas

Where did my Creativity go?

It’s still there, you simply turned off the tap. You let the workload get you down. You let everyone’s else’s demands supercede your own. You tried to make it happen, it didn’t and you became frustrated so you stopped. If you want to get the creativity back, stop thinking of it as some magical genie in a bottle and start seeing it as the labour of work and love that you need to put in to make it a success. Schedule it every day. Stick with the schedule. Don’t stop doing it. Don’t get frustrated. And watch it seep back

January 25, 2018

Greg Thomas

Convincing them on the Need

It’s not easy to do when around you everyone wants something. They want what everyone else is doing and achieving. They want the overnight success that others are achieving. They want to reach their goals faster and sooner than the last guy. But they aren’t ready for it because they haven’t quantified the need. They haven’t figured out what they need to do before they can start wanting something. These are the hardest conversations with new clients when they are so excited they start talking about all the things they want to do, want to accomplish and want to become.

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