Articles for category: Growth

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Daily Routine Derailed

Despite our best intentions, your daily routine will be derailed. You might make the first day, possibly the second, but some factor outside of your control will derail it. You can “sub” in alternatives to your routine to get work done, but there will always be this feeling of “I didn’t uphold my routine.” This is true, you didn’t, on this day, the streak was over, and now you start again. But you subbed in something different that maybe didn’t get you exactly what you wanted, but made up for it and filled the gap for you to start again.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Fixing Anything Mechanical

Can you fix a water heater? Can you fix your furnace? Can you fix the pump that brings water into your house? Maybe 60 years ago, people knew how to fix all these things; now, maybe you are down to being able to fix one, troubleshoot the other, and not even touch the third. Unless, of course, you’re specialized in those things – in which case, congratulations. So many people have stopped wanting to learn and figure out how those things work that you are now an indispensable resource to understanding how these things work, being able to translate the

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

There was Never Enough

Never enough time, resources, money, opportunities, customers, people, etc. There has never been enough, and there never will be. Pick your “thing” you don’t have enough of, it shifts over the course of your career – opportunities, money, earnings, customers – there will never be enough. Knowing there will never be enough, would you change your strategy? Would you take a different approach to what you want to achieve? Would you do something completely different? Or do you have enough, but just aren’t using it in the right way? What is your enough?

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Don’t Get From Conferences

Conferences are not training. You can travel and go to a training course where they deep dive you on a topic for one week.  Maybe you are there with a colleague or two, but you are not there with thousands of people, all in one class, all learning a topic and struggling through labs. This is good because struggling to do a lab with a thousand people would be daunting on a good day. Conferences are many things (as already gone through) but they are not training, they are learning. Different audiences, different topics, different opportunities, don’t sign up for

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Get from Conferences

Conferences are a great opportunity to connect with past and former, colleagues, meet new people, and get an overview of new topics. There are some conference that will deep dive on 2 – 3 core topics but generally, they are a firehose of information coming your way. The locale is different and a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, pick everyone’s brain without work surrounding you, and just overall learn about what does and doesn’t work in the team and what you can do moving forward. I haven’t been to a conference in a long time, but these are

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