Articles for category: Growth

February 4, 2025

Greg Thomas

Notebooks Change Your View

A few years ago I went back to using Notebooks more for tracking what I’m doing – read some books on task tracking and bullet journals and the like. Before this, I had been trying to do it all from some pretty nice colour coded and metrics tracking spreadsheets. Here’s the big lesson I took from the switch back to Notebooks. Notebooks change your view every time you look at them – you pause to examine your handwriting, the pen, what you wrote, how fast, what was crossed off, and when. Spreadsheets show you a great view of where you

February 3, 2025

Greg Thomas

Measure Your Mark

You’re one month in, it’s time to Measure your Mark. What have you accomplished? How far have you come? What has faltered? What is working? What isn’t? Is it time to put some deliverables aside in favour of others? Have your priorities changed? Every month, you should be asking yourself these questions on the month before so you are not just moving forward, but moving forward in the right direction, the direction you want to be moving in. This isn’t a Performance Review, think of it as a long jump, you’ve set your mark, now it’s time to spend the

February 1, 2025

Greg Thomas

Your Roadway

Planes need a roadway to take off and land. There are enough movies out there for everyone to know this, there is no mystery, it is simply what is. To gain speed, accelerate and maintain traction, you need a roadway to do it. What everyone has for a roadway is different from one another.  Some might not need a longer stretch, others might. In the end, it’s yours to determine, discover and implement. The last word being the most important, is what you implement. Find your roadway and run it.

January 30, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Piggyback Priniciple

The Piggyback Principle says that you ride on someone’s back or shoulders in order to accomplish a goal. You take their help, you borrow their strength, wisdom, and leadership – and you forge a path. The Piggyback Principle is not permanent, it is not how you will live forever, it is how you will get started – you will take support from those around you to grow and become better. The myth of “I got there on my own” is one of the biggest fallacies in the world – no one ever did it all. You might have done one

January 29, 2025

Greg Thomas

Your Little Idea

Remember this article the next time someone criticizes or tears down your little idea. With presumed minimal funding, an AI startup with vastly smaller resources just scared every other AI behemoth out there that is investing billions. It rings true of the Silicon Valley of Old. Any idea, no matter how many times it “might” have been done, can make an impact.