Articles for category: Initiative

July 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

Getting out of Frustrated

The easiest thing to have happen to us is to get frustrated. We try something, we mess up, we get frustrated. We put all our our time into making something perfect and the last piece breaks, we get frustrated. We write all this incredible code only to be hit with one final brick wall that is insurmountable, we get frustrated. Getting frustrated is easy, it’s the go to emotion, the first emotion we feel when something goes against what we had hoped it would be in our head. Changing that go to emotion to anything else, no matter what your

July 9, 2019

Greg Thomas

That Won’t Work

Or… You don’t understand. You don’t get get it. We can’t do it that way. That’s not how it’s supposed to be done. Everyone else is doing it this way. We don’t have time for that. We can’t just change what we’re doing. All things said before amazing works of art were created.

July 4, 2019

Greg Thomas

Where Do Ideas Come From?

You won’t find them in your phone, or a picturesque landscape or that beautiful sunset on the beach. There will always be something off to why you were not able to achieve that perfect level of inner enlightenment. The sand was a little too dry, in drizzled while you were hiking, all the ads got in your way. Ideas don’t come from doing nothing. They come from doing something, from seeing what might work and trying again when it fails. They come from action because when you start doing something – it changes, grows and adapts in your mind, you

July 3, 2019

Greg Thomas

Knowing who you want to work with

That whole, finding a great team to work with and surrounding yourself with great people thing. You don’t need to wait for it to happen, you don’t need to let someone choose for you. You can buy someone a coffee. You can join a user group. You can start your own online community. You can make your own league or start your own team. It doesn’t just apply to your work, it applies to everything and anyone around you. It’s all up to you and if you are able to make that decision early on in your life that the

July 2, 2019

Greg Thomas

What Ad Blockers Do

I started using an AdBlocker in Chrome a few months ago. It’s not that I was driven mad by Ads and felt a sudden surge of anger within me to use them and “protect” myself from them or anything. It just happened. And when I started to use them a few things started happening; Popups on all those sites to “buy” an ad-free plan to access their site. Popups telling me that they need the ads to survive. The numbers In answer to these; Who is buying this and why? This is the old negative billing scams that happened before.