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10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Own Timeline

When you have others asking you to finish work by a certain date, the timelines are imposed upon you. You can complain about them being too tight, but the fact remains – you have a timeline to finish your wor,k and people are depending upon you. Set the timeline for yourself, and only you are depending on you. Oddly enough, despite our anger, it’s when others depend upon us that we push ourselves harder to meet a timeline, irrespective of whether they are mean or nice about it. So the question becomes – can you treat yourself and your timeline

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

With all the Time in the World…

With all the time in the world, will you be able to accomplish your goals? Will you be able to be disciplined enough to be able to get all your work done? Will you achieve all that you want in all of those interests and hobbies? Will you be able to push yourself as far as you think you can? Maybe it’s time to find out.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Daily Routine Derailed

Despite our best intentions, your daily routine will be derailed. You might make the first day, possibly the second, but some factor outside of your control will derail it. You can “sub” in alternatives to your routine to get work done, but there will always be this feeling of “I didn’t uphold my routine.” This is true, you didn’t, on this day, the streak was over, and now you start again. But you subbed in something different that maybe didn’t get you exactly what you wanted, but made up for it and filled the gap for you to start again.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Fixing Anything Mechanical

Can you fix a water heater? Can you fix your furnace? Can you fix the pump that brings water into your house? Maybe 60 years ago, people knew how to fix all these things; now, maybe you are down to being able to fix one, troubleshoot the other, and not even touch the third. Unless, of course, you’re specialized in those things – in which case, congratulations. So many people have stopped wanting to learn and figure out how those things work that you are now an indispensable resource to understanding how these things work, being able to translate the

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

All of Our Jobs are Gone

If you read any news or blog site today, you will know that all of our jobs are gone. If you are sitting in a classroom right now, maybe in your fourth year, ready to get your first job, it is apparently gone, and there is nothing left for you. The degree I graduated with from university is far from what I do today, where the jobs at the time were not there, so I looked elsewhere. Where you start, where you are, is not where you have to end up. But it won’t come easily, you’ll need to work