Articles for category: Initiative

July 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

Don’t Get Rid of Your Outlet

We all need an outlet, somewhere to escape to where we think of nothing else but the outlet and if we’re lucky, all of our ideas percolate in the back of our heads. And if they are not percolating in the back of our mind, you still need that outlet. That outlet should not be a side hustle or a money making venture. It shouldn’t be something that focuses you to learn something new. It shouldn’t require anyone and in most cases is better if it doesn’t so it can give you that moment of respite solely so you can

July 16, 2019

Greg Thomas

That whole Soft Skills Thing

I enjoy reading the Gaping Void – it’s a great mix of word and art that drives the point home, all day, every day. But their recent article on Soft Skills – re-ignited that argument that has always been raging inside of me – Soft skills, hard, skills, medium-baked skills, school educated skills, street skills, etc, etc. They are all skills, you don’t need to differentiate them, it’s time to move on and understand that they are all critical to your success. You need skills to survive.

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

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