Articles for category: Growth

February 17, 2017

Greg Thomas

Is My Second Monitor Hurting Me?

I used to think having a second monitor was the most productive thing in the world. But with everything (and I mean everything) moving towards being available on the internet and as a result my computer, I have come to find myself getting constantly distracted while I’m working. I’ll work on “something” on my main screen, then bring up Netflix, YouTube, the news, something that pulls the rest of my attention over to the right bit by bit until it’s 100% there. As of late, I am trying to do most of my writing on my Chromebook because it only has

February 13, 2017

Greg Thomas

Get a Routine

Don’t have one?  Start small. Don’t do 2 hours at the gym every day, do 10 minutes at home or at the office. But do it consistently. Not eating properly? Don’t go vegan overnight, start eating more fruit each day. Don’t feel you are being challenged at work? Spend some $$$ and invest in yourself or cheaper yet, go read any one of the million of blogs out there. As we grow older, we embrace our freedom to choose what to do, when we want to do it, how we want to do it and forget that it was the

January 26, 2017

Greg Thomas

Where your best thinking happens

In a Starbucks? At home? In a quiet corner of the office? In a busy mall? If you have the option to work remotely, wifi is everywhere (almost), why not work where you do your best thinking? And if it feels to be working with remotely on text, voice and conference calls instead of being there with them in person than the next question you have to ask yourself is… Why do we have all this stuff if we aren’t using it? Think where you are most productive, most energetic and most engaged, forget the timezones and calendars that tie

January 17, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Weekly Reset

You need one, I need one, they need one – we all need one – and it’s time to stop waiting for our vacations to come up to realize it. Why you need a weekly Reset

December 28, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Expansion Experiment

I think what helps any of us grow, in any field, is seeing the different approaches that people take in totally different fields to solve similar problems. Whether it be a function of leadership, team development, personal growth where there is alignment between the fields of interest. Even more interesting is to learn how people approach problems I have never seen, heard or even thought of and seek to understand how they approached this problem. With this in mind, I went to my LinkedIn feed and noticed that the bulk of people I interact with are all in some way

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