Articles for category: Growth

June 22, 2017

Greg Thomas

Don’t Measure Yourself by Others Standards

If someone tells you that you are really, really, really, really bad at something and you should not be doing it, you have a choice to make. Listen to them, measure your worth against them and spend the rest of your life worrying about what they are going to say. Move on and keep being “bad” at whatever it is you’re doing.  Actually don’t simply be bad, be horrible, stink the joint up, make mistakes here, there and everywhere. But give it your all and keep giving it your all until you are bad no more and you are good

June 12, 2017

Greg Thomas

Your Voice, Your Message

Sometimes these posts don’t make sense. Sometimes I see the emails fly by and my grammar and prose are atrocious. Sometimes I forget to write the pieces in my head that fill in the blanks of the genius I was hoping would spew forth from my finger tips. Sometimes I miss the mark. But every message, every post has a voice, a purpose and a direction.  It might not be clear by reading the first 5, 10 or 20 posts but it’s there. Start your voice, find your direction, experiment, switch it up if you need to and keep iterating. No one

June 9, 2017

Greg Thomas

Forget the Statistics

Forget the stats. Forget the followers. Forget the connections. Forget the likes. Forget the dislikes. All these metrics were happening long before social media and we found a way to ignore the daily churn and not get hung up on them.  This isn’t to say you should treat those that have connected and follow you as numbers that grow your network but instead think of them in the context of the real world. When you are giving a presentation or talk, there are invariably going to be people that stand out and leave. Perhaps they are in the wrong room, perhaps

June 1, 2017

Greg Thomas

Stop Reading, Start Doing

It’s so easy to receive that umpteenth email about a great course you have to watch, a book you need to read and a lecture you need to attend. Maybe you’ll finally receive that one last golden nugget of knowledge that will make you a success. Or maybe it’s time to stop worrying about what little bit you are missing and start building, creating, trying, failing, breaking and most importantly just doing. You can only consume so much content, so set the playing field before you begin, read these 3 books and then start? Okay do that, but don’t get sucked

May 31, 2017

Greg Thomas

New Experiment – The Daily Coder

I’ve been trying to get my coding blog going bit by bit but I’ve struggled with it a bit – www.forgottencoder.com – perhaps it’s due to to not enough focus, perhaps it’s due to not having enough time, whatever the case, I’m starting a new project with this blog at it’s core. For the month of June, I will be committing to doing an hour of code a day and blogging about it. The rules are; One hour of day of code per day. Cannot be part of a professional project – must be my own project. Learning doesn’t count, i.e.,

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