Articles for category: Initiative

August 9, 2023

Greg Thomas

Change What Can be Changed

You can’t change everything. It’s worth stating that in all of your daily interactions, you might only be able to change 10% of what you actually do. But that 10% is yours to control, own and change as you see fit. It might be discouraging to hear that number at 10% – maybe in your life it is a larger number.  And the realization might not exist that you are not in control of everything, but perhaps that realization is also freeing in letting you know that it’s not all up to you to have to do everything.

August 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Flip your Worldview

If you’re worldview is becoming a bit stale, if you are getting bored or dismayed by the same set of posts on your page or app, try any of the following… Watch something you would never normally watch. Read something completely out of your normal genre. Go somewhere different without a plan. Try something that would scare you. It might not flip your worldview, but it’ll definitely give it the update that you’re longing for.

August 3, 2023

Greg Thomas

Do the Work

Don’t complain. Don’t argue. Don’t pontificate. Don’t procrastinate. Just sit down (or standup) and do the work that is in front of you.  It will be much faster than all of the above and you might it was more enjoyable by not doing all of the above.

August 2, 2023

Greg Thomas

Doing the Bare Minimum Perfectly

The bare minimum of your application should do everything that is important to your application perfectly. If it needs to fall over gracefully, it should fall over and come back to life. If it requires logs that anyone can read, they should reference KB articles. If they are connecting people, it should connect people. If they make calls, they should make calls. If it is meant to draw a picture, it should draw the picture. The bare minimum of your application is why people buy it, everything else is an extra bonus. Being able to print the picture I drew

July 30, 2023

Greg Thomas

Light(en) it Up

Any job has a stressful component to its delivery.  No job is perfectly stress free (sorry) and some are much more than others.   Yes, pizza lunches don’t solve the bigger problem, but when bought from your manager’s pocket for the benefit of their team – yes, it is worthwhile and can be appreciated as they try to do something with all that they have available to them. Perhaps it won’t solve all the problems, but maybe it will provide a few hours of levity, laughs, and overall silliness as everyone bonds toward making things better with what they have.

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