Articles for category: Initiative

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Guess What?

Now is the time to push your boundaries. Now is the time to take the leap. Now is the time to try something new. Now is the time not to give up. You can’t reset on yesterday, and tomorrow is whatever it will be. But today, it’s all you.

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

Holding onto the Gold Base

In the game of Starcraft, there is a concept of Gold Minerals in which there is only one in each game.  The gold minerals themselves are generally in the middle of the map and are away from your more comfortable “blue” minerals. You have to work to get to them, and when you get to them, you need to defend them.  It’s not an easy position to hold, and generally, there is much back and forth with your opponents as you win it, lose it, win it again. The pull of Gold Minerals is that you can yield twice as

7 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Work You Hate To Do

Everyone has a task they don’t like to do, yes, that they hate to do. But it never goes away, it just keeps staring you in the face. So here’s the plan; Do that work, do it until it annoys. Figure out a way to get it off your plate – script it, automate it, batch it – whatever you like. Rinse and repeat with the next task you hate. The work you hate never goes away; it only gets ignored, and when it gets ignored, it doesn’t get done, and then things go sideways. Embrace the work you hate,