Articles for category: Growth

July 18, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Lane Changers

When the need to be first outweighs the need to figure out how to get there we have become a Lane Changer. When stuck in traffic, I sit there and I watch people frantically switching lanes, hoping to get ahead of everyone else hopping between lanes, all goals thrown out the window except for being there first. Forget the anxiety everyone around you must now insulate themselves from as you jump in front of them at the last second when they are ready to move forward only to nearly missing hitting you. Or the jerk of your movements that is

July 13, 2017

Greg Thomas

How to Start a Podcast

I’ve been doing a Podcast for a few months now and like anything, it isn’t the ongoing execution of the cast that took the most time but the initial “doing” of the cast and getting up to make it happen. If you’re feeling overwhelmed that goes into creating a cast, don’t, here are some simple steps that we took to get started. Get a decent Mic.  I purchased this one, very easy to use and easy to take with me. Download Audacity for audio mixing (seriously, I am not an audio engineer and I was able to figure it out

July 7, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Make It Work Project

Are you really open to a New Idea? Or are you paying lip service. You know the answer, we all do. We all the know the moment we stop listening and start hearing the rest of the conversation in the hope that it will eventually finish. Or that we ask someone to present their idea knowing full well we aren’t going to accept it and have already started to move forward in other areas. These are sometimes referred to as the “Make Work” Projects – projects meant to keep you busy, invested in  your idea, figuring out what can and

June 30, 2017

Greg Thomas

Is the RSS Feed dead?

I used to use Google Reader all the time. It was the most convenient application of a reader side-by-side by one of my most used applications.  I would check emails, then click a button to read my feeds. The two were connected in a symbiotic relationship where I would consume the news from my email and then from my feeds. It didn’t even feel like I was jumping between apps when I used them. I still have an RSS Feed app (both on my phone and online) but I find myself visiting it once a week (or maybe less). It’s not