Doggie bag

         

Edition 179 Monday March 25th 2013

Hi ,its official the hours of weekly training have a new focus,I am on a collision course for the Mission Bay Tri series on Sunday April 21 yeehaaa!! Cant wait to have another crack at the triple torture test!

I am determined not to get drowned by the women who start their swim 5 minutes after the men unlike my last outing where several of the leading ladies swam right over the top of me L!!!

Speaking of audacious what is it with people who have to tell you they think you have put on weight?? I have decided it is they who have put on weight and they are merely attempting to deflect the focus off their own spare tyres and love handles. As I quickly pointed out to my so called friend who had the cheek to tell me recently he felt I had gained a few pounds…..”You are so right, it is muscle because of the training I am doing for the upcoming tri….now whats your excuse tubs? and by the way you are no friend of mine!! Grrrrrr some people really have no idea !!!

I love walking the hounds , it is therapeutic for Harry and the Hendersons as well as the great white golf ball hunter. Things can and do turn to crap (quite literally) sometimes when the canines come across a human deposit left by a desparate golfer or freedom camper. As if eating the offending material isnt bad enough our three often feel the need to roll themselves in it. Apart from cursing the offenders and the dogs it makes for an interesting car ride home !!!! yuk !!!you have to laugh/choke!

Paul got a much needed stretch of the mags this weekend as we picniced again amongst the sunny vines at Matua, love where we live and that we get time to do this together most weekends!!!

I hope you had a good weekend, the penultimate one before the Easter break, yay bring it on !!

Have a successful and safe week ahead, cheers Jonesey.

Harry and the Hendersons reckon golfers and freedom campers need to pick up their poos in bags just like they do!!!!!(no complaints there from the grumpy man!!!)

 All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.” Vince Lombardi

We have recently won a couple of tenders where we were the incumbent provider of services. These are times when you have to back yourself and believe in what you are doing is the best thing for your customers. There is always a temptation in the face of intense competition to doubt yourself , what you are providing and to feel pressured to cut prices to hold the work.

In each case we backed ourselves and the relationship we had formed with the key people in both organisations. Interestingly they decided to stay with us even though their previous suppliers submitted lower prices in an effort to win the work back !!

It proved for me that we didn’t have to lower our prices and that our customers were happy paying a bit extra for a superior range of ;products and a better all round quality of service.

We had enough confidence in the benefits we had provided our customers to project more to come in the future if they stayed with us. Another thing we had done in both cases was work closely enough with the staff of both organisations so they saw us as a part of their team rather than a mystery/ghost supplier who didn’t really understand their business. These things weighed heavily in our favour as key points of differentiation when it came to re-awarding us another contract term!

So there you go, all this stuff we talk about in the ‘Sizzle’ can and often does have a huge effect in determining the future success of your business. You have to back yourself and believe in your product and business! Then you need to project that at all times to prospective and existing customers…..ask yourself “Are you living and breathing your company vision with relentless energy and enthusiasm?” If not , why not?? Because you need to be……….daily…..Good luck.

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way” - Henry David Thoreau