tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185609957277204582023-11-16T10:43:27.239-04:00Musings of a ChronicLearnerPhil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-85657534750567125962011-12-31T13:57:00.007-04:002020-11-19T11:50:07.659-04:00Happy New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">The book is almost closed on 2011, there have been good times and some not so good times, we have laughed and we have cried. We have made it here to this day and this night to celebrate the year that was 2011. Remember your rear-view mirror is so small and your windshield is so large because what lies ahead is much more important than the past. Let us all count our blessings. It is not what we say<span class="text_exposed_show"> about them but how we use them that matters.<br />
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So as we move forward to 2012 remember that success might be just around the next corner, over the next hill or at the end of the next effort. Don’t be afraid to go out on the limb in 2012 because that is where the fruit is. </span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /></span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /></span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />
Every day is a gift – make sure you open it!!!</span></span></span></h6>
Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-30751929690170352262010-11-10T00:44:00.012-04:002020-11-19T11:50:38.651-04:00The Ocean of Truth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hafLq7g0UuIyLBwulZiO7dIG7yCk5JOAwIq63r0_FD33J9jVBX2CSujcVYiJORH1rMWvVpeasFlhseQbFudkgKJsYC8yqAxB6v0Uq7w7Epx56rdfwfANkhYvGCSAj3FTq2d7SDllYg/s694/E5BD7FBE-A31A-4900-8E65-D7D1023AEBF6_4_5005_c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="694" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hafLq7g0UuIyLBwulZiO7dIG7yCk5JOAwIq63r0_FD33J9jVBX2CSujcVYiJORH1rMWvVpeasFlhseQbFudkgKJsYC8yqAxB6v0Uq7w7Epx56rdfwfANkhYvGCSAj3FTq2d7SDllYg/w516-h237/E5BD7FBE-A31A-4900-8E65-D7D1023AEBF6_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="516" /></a></div></div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me”.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <i>Isaac Newton</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i> </i> </div><div class="MsoNormal">This past year has been a year of discovery and reclamation, they say good things come to them who wait...and wait, I have!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span><i></i> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The great ocean that lay’s ahead is truly exciting, as the fog lifts and through the mist clarity approaches I can now see the conduit to my dreams. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-33027121808955973572010-09-10T12:14:00.003-03:002020-11-19T16:14:30.006-04:00Think Like a Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span style="font-size: small;">Soak up the sun & Affirm life's magic<br />
Be graceful in the wind<br />
Stand tall after a storm<br />
<span class="text_exposed_hide"></span><span class="text_exposed_show">Feel refreshed after it rains & Grow strong without notice<br />
Be prepared 4each season <br />
Provide shelter to strangers<br />
Hang tough through a cold spell & Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring<br />
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky<br />
Be still long enough to hear your own leave rustling <br />
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Karen I. Shragg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHiZkeNfRWnE08dq8-SlVq0RYZ9U6HAgJ7ae4-RNCDTrkQeCyprSqqql1vVJxzaoIefpjuplQ_rA3rmdXcq2UuA_2bzKtu7pQXSZiOjlgSl-28sw5TwAAcJQaaCZdvE1powWC4RpifaA/s2560/20200613_203531.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHiZkeNfRWnE08dq8-SlVq0RYZ9U6HAgJ7ae4-RNCDTrkQeCyprSqqql1vVJxzaoIefpjuplQ_rA3rmdXcq2UuA_2bzKtu7pQXSZiOjlgSl-28sw5TwAAcJQaaCZdvE1powWC4RpifaA/s320/20200613_203531.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></span></h6>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-80502945890096562752010-04-21T14:16:00.001-03:002020-11-19T16:25:03.499-04:00None of Us Is as Good as All of Us<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fostering Teamwork is creating a work culture that values collaboration. In a teamwork environment, people understand and believe that thinking planning, decisions and actions are better when done cooperatively. People recognize, and even assimilate, the belief that none of us is as good as all of us.</span></p>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-40921853883428509212010-04-20T16:52:00.001-03:002020-11-19T16:26:23.414-04:00DIFFERENTIATING CUSTOMERS BY THEIR NEEDS<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CPhil%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CPhil%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CPhil%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Differentiation is about using customer feedback to forecast, envisage and expect customers’ needs and wants. You can do this better than your competition because you have dialogue and feedback that they do not.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You need to see the company from the customer’s viewpoint, seeing it from their angle, customers are not concerned about their value to the business, they just want to have their problems solved – they are looking for solutions. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">When differentiating customers by their needs, the term needs encompasses their wants, what they prefer and would like, needs and wants are not differentiated from each other. What a customer needs is the motivating energy behind customer behavior. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Business need to understand that product benefits and features are not the same as needs. Customers will want, need and request certain benefits and features from products but they are focused on the product not the customer. Needs on the other hand are customer based and focused. Many different individual consumers will purchase identical products in order to fulfill separate needs.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Customers need to be placed in to different categories and grouped based on their needs. It would cost companies too much money to treat each distinct customer in a different way; businesses are capable through mass customization which is the modular production of an offering to produce a custom output. Mass Customization is the customization and personalization of products and services for individual customers at a mass production price, thus making it efficient and cost effective. <o:p></o:p></div>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-4165873568941214922010-04-18T00:41:00.001-03:002020-11-19T16:27:04.758-04:00Personal Philosophy of Life<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are. . . . It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It's like the perfume of the flower - unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. And it can be greatly embellished by the absorption of ideas and experiences of the useful of this earth."</span><em><span> <strong>George Matthew Adams </strong></span></em></span></p>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-43772751939199380272010-04-17T21:44:00.014-03:002020-11-19T12:29:44.720-04:00Goals Have a Purpose<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FHp5LlkzJ5Y/S8rVp6sGbNI/AAAAAAAAABg/gi7NivTXqIo/s1600/GOALS.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Goals are so essential, they are imperative and necessary. Can you visualize watching a sporting event with no goal... the players on the field running around with no purpose or reason other than getting exhausted? Goals help us stay focused and productive and not just busy.</div>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-21200709418507722362010-04-17T21:41:00.000-03:002010-04-17T21:43:32.075-03:00It's all about...<p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" times="" style="">It’s all about </span><span new="" times="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Passion. </span><span new="" times="" style="">Raw energy and zeal driven by excitement and desire, as <i>Emerson</i> declared “nothing GREAT was every achieved without enthusiasm”. It’s that spiritedness motivated by love and obsession. When a person is following a passion, the endurance and commitment required comes naturally. They are not suffering through the experience; they </span><span new="" times="" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">love</span><span new="" times="" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span new="" times="" style="">it. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" times="" style="">What is your PASSION??</span></p>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-36736631455942025152010-04-17T21:39:00.000-03:002010-04-17T21:41:33.860-03:00Don't know what your passions are...<div> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">Don’t know what your passions are; ask yourself these seven questions to start off on your journey of self discovery. </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">What makes me smile</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">What do I find easy </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">What sparks my creativity</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">What would I do for free</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">What do I like to talk about</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">What makes me unafraid of failure</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span new="" times="" style="">What would I regret not having tried</span></p> <p><span new="" times="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remember</span> “The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” Don Williams Jr.</span></p> </div>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-17425393523915401192010-04-17T21:38:00.000-03:002020-11-19T16:34:52.548-04:00Success~Excellence ~Journey<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Success is a measure against yourself and no one else. I have learned that excellence is deliberate; it’s not an accident that we stumble upon. Success is not a place at which you disembark but rather the spirit with which you accept and continue the journey. As long as we aim for a more ideal self, success will naturally follow.</span></blockquote>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-30419578502365749422010-04-17T21:35:00.000-03:002010-04-17T21:36:54.882-03:00An Entrepreneur in Each of Us<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span comic="" sans="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Many times when we hear the word entrepreneur a picture of someone who starts and runs their own business comes to mind. I prefer to think that there is an entrepreneur in each of us. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span comic="" sans="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span comic="" sans="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Entrepreneurs are naturally defined by their ability to discover and perform a combination of a variety of entrepreneurial characteristics and values. Those core skills and competencies that make the traditional entrepreneur successful can and will make each of us successful in whatever career or task they are applied to. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span comic="" sans="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span comic="" sans="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Skills such as the ability to make decisions, spot and take advantage of opportunities, build and lead teams, innovative - see the possibilities where others do not (think outside the box), action orientated and a great work ethic, where they always strive to do better, and achieve with a high standard of excellence.</span></p>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-19446849515240864602010-04-17T21:28:00.000-03:002010-04-17T21:32:20.249-03:00Is your agenda propelled by emotion?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" times="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What drives us? What are the forces that impel us not to be able to stop, what are the powerful influences that guide our timetables every day? Why do we do what we do? What is your motive for action? What are the invisible urges of internal drive that instigate and activate you to execute and complete your purpose? </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" times="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The perseverance, persistence and tenacity that are a vital necessity to be successful are driven by emotion. When our daily routines are shaped by emotion we can achieve great things. Emotion gives us the capacity to produce beyond ourselves. Emotion has the ability to cause powerful reactions, reactions that provide the capability to do the unimaginable, the unthinkable… to be incredible.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" times="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.” - Gary Zukav</span></p>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18560995727720458.post-25835179599447956422010-04-17T20:14:00.001-03:002020-11-19T16:29:12.305-04:00Set yourself up for Success<p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" times=""><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" times=""><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;" times="">A knock at the door last week sparked an inner snooping, a curious probing of the soul. Several elementary aged children arrived at the doorstep in their quest for a pledge donation for a school connected charity.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;" times="">“<i>Hey mister would you like to sponsor us</i>?”…they queried. Only having the change in my pocket, I gladly parted with it, a mere three dollars. One of children promptly snickered. I politely explained it was all the money that I had on me and inquired if they took plastic, asking “<i>do you have a debit machine</i>?”… The group giggled and stated that they didn’t have a debit machine. The young child placed my small donation in her pledge envelope and walked away.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;" times="">As the group walked down the walkway the young child remembered that she was suppose to have sponsors sign her pledge sheet. “<i>Oh, I’m sorry but you have to sign my sheet too</i>”…she stated. As she walked back to the door I asked “<i>do you have a pen</i>?”</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;" times="">The look of fright that came over her was astonishing. “<i>Ah…ah…ah, no I don’t</i>.” It was clearly evident she did not know what her next move was; she had encountered an obstacle to which she did not have the resources to solve. “<i>You wait right here and I’ll run to my desk and grab a pen</i>”… I told her. I quickly returned and signed her pledge sheet, and clipped the pen to her envelope and handed it back. “There you go…you’re all set. You can keep the pen. You will need it at the next house” I said.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span new="" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;" times="">My 13 year old son had been standing on the upper landing and witnessed my encounter with the group of children. “Dad” he said…”you just set them up for success.” I began to think… was I set up for success??</span></p>Phil Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230344170247789227noreply@blogger.com0