Articles for category: Initiative

January 27, 2017

Greg Thomas

Something new to Learn

What if you know something hard to learn that your friend doesn’t know. What if your friend knows something hard to learn that you don’t know. And you both stared at each other in awe of the other person’s skill thinking “that is too hard I could never do that”. “I’ll never get the training amount approved.” “It’s not on my career path, no use trying something new.” “I haven’t done anything with that in years, it’d take way too long to get going”. Or, maybe you could reach out, ask for a starting point and each moment, day after

January 23, 2017

Greg Thomas

What’s your Bonus?

Are you driven by how much you can learn in a year? Is it the watch you get in 5 years? Is it the people you get to meet and growth with? Are you driven by an end of year salary increase? Is it being able to pay off your house with your end of year bonus? Is the opportunity to take on new projects and challenges? Whatever it is, it’s yours for the taking, no one else is going to go for it, you put it there, it has your name on it and now it’s on you to go

January 19, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Freelancer’s Dilemma

Is simply that not everyone gets it. Not everyone understands Why so much effort goes into one customer Why all of your work isn’t readily copied from customer to customer Why you don’t bill for those extra hours that took the project from cacophony to symphony Why your billing cycles are erratic Why the customer relationship is more important than the customer’s balance sheet Why growth isn’t a hockey stick but instead some gradual curve over a long period of time Why working from home, or a coop But if you do isn’t that all that really matters?

January 13, 2017

Greg Thomas

You have more Options than You Think

We often forget we do. We get into a routine or a cycle and we start to think – this is, I’m stuck, nowhere else to go – this is me forever, might as well strap in and enjoy the ride. But the option is always there to get off the ride, buy another ticket and start a new one. You always have an option and if you can’t see it, talk to a friend, they’re always good at pointing them out to us.

January 9, 2017

Greg Thomas

I have to learn something new… again?

Yeah what a bummer – that whole growth thing has reared it’s ugly head again. There’s a new project with a new technology that you need to lead that you know zero about. There’s a new API that might solve the problem you’ve been having over the last year but you’ve never used it. Someone just did a demo on a new framework that you should be applying to EVERYTHING you do and you have 2 weeks to learn it. What a bummer that whole changing software industry. Good thing you are relentless when it comes to learning new technologies,