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Last Updated: March 29, 2022 Hi Ladies and Gents,
Well, I’m a day late on the Monday post again. The Internet has been as slow as MUD lately with my whole district under lockdown, and I couldn’t get my VPN working most of yesterday to be able to reach the “outside world,” ha, ha! It is funny for me to think that Weebly, the platform on which this entire blog and website you are currently browsing was built, was very first recommended to me way back in 2012 when I first came to China to work as a website builder with a great free option that actually WORKED IN CHINA WITHOUT A VPN (key)! In those days I had come out to China to teach 5th Grade Science and lead the Elementary School Science Team at The SMIC Private School in the eastern portion of the City of Shanghai. My 5th Team Leader had us all build Weebly sites for our respective classes. Gosh, that was back at the very tail end of the era of the “individual” website, as I call it. And by “individual website,” no, I don’t mean the age of first-generation stand-alone personal homepages – oh how I miss those days; Facebook (and dare I even say MySpace, back in those days) had largely killed those by 2012 already. By “individual website” I mean, in this case, websites that people would build for things like throwing a garage sale, family reunion, or other event or party; websites that teachers would build for their classes; small-time informational sites built about certain things or places built by individuals, such as “Dave’s Guide to Yellowstone National Park;” and, yes, I do suppose the bigger, beefier, relaunched and reloaded “Web 2.0” version of personal homepages would fit into this category, too. I mean, there are still plenty of these sites around, for sure! And plenty new ones are built all the time, but it’s not like it use to be on the Internet anymore with all the “walled gardens” out there that people are so crazy about – YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, you know them all, and those are where everyone “hangs out” these days. Corporate websites and websites that sell things dominate your search engines these days, not “Dave’s Guide to Yellowstone National Park,” (unless Dave is an affiliate with some hiking outfitter!). I mean, let’s get real, no 16-year-old kid alive today is every going to believe that people use to go through the “trouble” of building a stand-alone website to showcase and invite people to their wedding, or to do something so mundane and trivial as throw a garage sale (I put “trouble” in quotes because those of us who did this back in the day didn’t consider it “trouble,” ha, ha! It was the wave of the future!). Heck, that’s what Facebook and Craig’s List are for, right!? I use this lead in about slow Internet speeds and lack of VPN accessibility under lockdown, websites, and how the web has changed in a very short amount of time (the story I am talking about here happened in 2012, a mere 10 years ago) to illustrate the title and the core of this post – the nature of reality. Reality is FLUID and reality can CHANGE in the blink of an eye! I suppose know one knows this better than a seasoned teacher who really has his or her eyes open to what is going on at school anyway, right?! Look at how COVID-19 brought the world to a stand-still, all because governments around the world didn’t want to “waste a good emergency,” or at least that’s the way I see it (and believe you me, at first I was one of the many masses of “sheeple” who actually thought I had narrowly escaped death by a hair’s breadth! Yes, you can laugh all you want – I have woken up and seen the light now!). Governments put policies into place and suddenly that becomes the new reality. Mass-distributed textbooks teach gigantic swathes of a population one thing at a very young age and that becomes that generation’s “base” for reality, then a section is thrown out, a chapter re-written, a story re-told by a different narrator, and the book is re-released, a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th….69th edition comes out, each with different parameters for “reality.” There are groups of people alive today around the world who are otherwise quite “normal” (whatever that really means) human beings who adamantly insist that people have never walked on the surface of Earth’s Moon, and there’s no convincing them otherwise! There are people alive today (many people, actually, myself included this time!) who believe that we should still teach cursive writing in school, despite the fact that no one writes with pen and paper anymore! “But we can’t let the skill die!” these people say! Well, but we have let the art and craft of stone tool making die. People don’t use those anymore (and don’t be the crackpot commentor who says you do, ha, ha! I’m sure some wise guy someone out there uses some kind of tool made of stone for something even now in 2022, but humor me here, will ya!). Just a mere 300 years ago people thought the idea of germs spreading disease was outright crazy! When we use examples of something so far removed in time, people easily tend to think: “Eh, well, yeah, of course, the ancients and old-timers didn’t know jack! Look at us today and all we know!” Well, if that’s your line, I’ve got news for you, bud! Ol’ Jack and Jane Doe said the same thing in 1722 looking back at the people who had lived 300 years before them! Reality changes ALL THE TIME! And it can happen suddenly, and then, boom! That’s it! Reality is different than it was last week, or different than it even was a day ago! I am not here to place a value judgement on reality’s fluid nature. In fact, if I dare try I say it is neither good nor bad – it just is; that’s just how it is. But why muse over this here on a site devoted to making money, coaching, and education? Well, the whole point in this regard is that reality is flexible, malleable, to a point, at least, and you have some control over it. You have quite a bit of control over it, actually. You might not be able to single-handedly change reality overnight – yet – but you can bend, morph, and sculpt the reality around you to a larger degree than you may even believe right now over time. This means that you can change things and make them different. You have free-will and thus the power to semi-control your own reality in big ways. While this can definitely be scary, on the flip side, there are huge implications and opportunities for growth, self-development, being a better person, and, of course, getting what you want and making more money (of course, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about this, and I advocate for the right way)! Until next time! Better life, better business, better you! Ideas, inspiration, opportunity, -Andreas Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises Washington State Certified K-8 Educator, K-12 International Education Consultant, Professional Coach, Proofreader/Editor, Affiliate Marketer, Popsicle Stick Crafter, Print-on-Demand Products Designer, and Webmaster Check out: www.cityofpullmanportal.com, www.949crafts.com Looking for a professional coach? I’m your man! Let’s chat.
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Last Updated: March 21, 2022 Hi Ladies and Gents, and whatever else you may go by - there is no judgement here,
Welcome to the Monday post for March 21st, 2022. Now, today is a very special day, as today is the 7th Anniversary (ceremony date) of my wife and I's wedding. I say the "Ceremony Date," as in China the day you actually sign the papers down at the Justice of the Peace and the day of your actual wedding ceremony are generally (almost never) the same day. My wife and I had actually been married (according to the government) for almost half a year before our actual big, blow-out wedding ceremony was held. With that said, as promised last time, I am moving forward here with some MAJOR upgrades and overhauls here on the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises homepage, although you won't actually see most of them here on site for the next month at least. My theme for the next month moving forward is "What is Real?" Com'on, you know you ask yourself that question all the time - especially since the now-infamous Spring of 2020! This is a theme which is particularly near and dear to my heart as an Elementary Educator, as helping to sculpt the reality of children - even very young children - is something I do every day. This is highly dangerous business! And I'll tell you more about why so next week. Peace in all things. Better life, better business, better you! Ideas, inspiration, opportunity, -Andreas Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises Washington State Certified K-8 Educator, K-12 International Education Consultant, Professional Coach, Proofreader/Editor, Affiliate Marketer, Popsicle Stick Crafter, Print-on-Demand Products Designer, and Webmaster Check out: www.cityofpullmanportal.com, www.949crafts.com Looking for a professional coach? I’m your man! Let’s chat. Last Updated: March 19, 2022 Well, after jumping back on here last Monday after two months away, I already missed the second weekly post on Thursday and am making up for that now! But with that said, this post is actually a post about how I will be doing away with my Thursday posting for the rest of spring 2022, ha, ha! Yes, I am going to move away from twice a week blog postings for the rest of this spring, probably ramping back up to twice a week postings once again when summer rolls around. That doesn't mean I am stepping away from the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises website - no indeed! Actually, quite the opposite! After coming back to the site - my baby - after some time away, I now have a much better idea of the next set of updates and reformats that need to happen to the site. I will be spending my energy the rest of this spring largely tweaking, updating, and reformatting the site itself, growing my affiliate offerings offered through the site, and spending a lot of time and energy on actually promoting the site across the Internet - properly, like it should be promoted - as opposed to posting here on the blog!
With that in mind, I will keep going here on the blog with Monday blog posts, but don't expect regular Thursday posts for a while. Instead of regular Thursday posts, do look for growth and development apart from the job coming to the overall site itself over these next few months! These are exciting times! Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises went through a "level up" upgrade two years ago and it's now time to take the site to the next level yet again right now! Peace in all things. Better life, better business, better you! Ideas, inspiration, opportunity, -Andreas Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises Washington State Certified K-8 Educator, K-12 International Education Consultant, Professional Coach, Proofreader/Editor, Affiliate Marketer, Popsicle Stick Crafter, Print-on-Demand Products Designer, and Webmaster Check out: www.cityofpullmanportal.com, www.949crafts.com Looking for a professional coach? I’m your man! Let’s chat. Last Updated: 3/14/2022 Welcome back to the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises blog, ladies and gents! Today's post is going to be short, sweet, and to the point. It's been two months - two months and 4 days, to be precise - since my last post which was on January 10th of this same year. As those of you who have been following me will know, I am a Elementary School Educator and Life Coach with a freelancer/entreprenurial streak building his Online Empire one webpage and blog post at a time :). Due to burnout from working long hours for comparativley little pay as the institution started to massively restructure itself from within, I recently bailed from my previous job as an Elementary School Coordinator at a large private Taiwanese school in Central Eastern China to go to work for a school across town in the same city. Now I'm back in the classroom as a regular 2nd Grade Teacher without administrative responsibilites and am actually getting paid MORE than I was as a Coordinator at my previous school.
This was all a very calculated move on my part: 1) At this point in my life, I need some kind of stable monthly income, and I would much rather be doing something I actually enjoy and feel is worthwhile to maintain a monthly income as such (as opposed to something I didn't enjoy and just considered a "chore"). This current job satisfys this point prefectly - I get to do something I enjoy and feel to be worthwhile and helpful to the world (teaching Elementary Schoolers), while also getting paid fairly to do it. 2) Additionally, this current job allows me to work fewer hours. Granted, it still keeps me "busy for the man," in the sense that it is still an "8-5, Monday-Friday job." But I am able to complete much more of the job much easier in the "8-5" alloted time, which results in taking much, much less work home in the end of the day. This allows me to spend more time taking care of the family AND give me more time work on my other passion - Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises! Since my last post on here on January 10, 2022, I finished things off at and resigned from my previous job, had a nice, relaxing 3 week Chinese New Year vacation with family, and then started at my new (current) school, under lockdown, on Valentine's Day! It was a big adjustment to start at a brand new job online unexpectedly without ever even touring the campus, seeing my classroom, or getting to meet any of my students in-person, and that took some getting use to; hence, why I didn't jump right back on this blog on Valentine's Day as planned. With all that said, we are still under lockdown (we were supposed to go back to work today, but our lockdown was just extended last night, actually), but I have adjusted to the ebb and flow and cadence of the job as it is going now, at least, so I am able to jump back on here and pump some life back into the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises blog and website once more! Expect the bi-weekly Monday and Thursday posts to come back and expect to see periodic updates to the website taking place moving forward again. Peace in all things. Better life, better business, better you! Ideas, inspiration, opportunity, -Andreas Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises Washington State Certified K-8 Educator, K-12 International Education Consultant, Professional Coach, Proofreader/Editor, Affiliate Marketer, Popsicle Stick Crafter, Print-on-Demand Products Designer, and Webmaster Check out: www.cityofpullmanportal.com, www.949crafts.com Looking for a professional coach? I’m your man! Let’s chat. |
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The terms "the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises website," "the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises site," "this website," "the website," "this site, "the site," "this website you are currently browsing," or "the website you are currently browsing" refer to the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises website found at this URL: www.apg-enterprises.com, built on Weebly, Inc's. website builder platform, and established, owned, and operated by Andreas Philip Gross, sole proprietor.
The legal entities you have the potential to - and probably will - interact, transact, do business with, or otherwise come across and deal with in one way or another while using this site include:
- Andreas Philip Gross: founder, owner, and operator of Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises, sole proprietorship.
- Zazzle, Inc.: the marketplace platform Andreas Philip Gross has an affiliate marketing relationship with. You will see affiliate links to products for sale on Zazzle in the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises Store on this website you are currently browsing and possibly in other places throughout the site. If you click on any of these affiliate links you will be directed to an outside site (www.zazzle.com) for purchase. For more about Zazzle, Inc., its company, how it works, what it sells, its privacy policy, and terms of service, visit www.zazzle.com for more information. Zazzle, Inc. is its own sovereign company with whom Andreas Philip Gross has a non-employee affiliate relationship with, constituting him an independent 3rd party contractor with Zazzle. Andreas Philip Gross does not make or set any of Zazzle, Inc's. company terms, policies, operating procedures, rules, or governing agreements. Such terms, policies, operating procedures, rules, and governing agreements are made by Zazzle, Inc. itself.
- Weebly, Inc.: the website builder platform on which this website is built. To find out more about Weebly, Inc., how it works, what the company does, and its privacy policy and terms of service, visit www.weebly.com for more information. Weebly, Inc. is its own sovereign company with whom Andreas Philip Gross has an end-user consumer relationship in his role as webmaster of Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises, as he uses Weebly, Inc's. services to build, maintain, and host his website, Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises. Andreas Philip Gross does not make or set any of Weebly, Inc's. company terms, policies, operating procedures, rules, or governing agreements. Such terms, policies, operating procedures, rules, and governing agreements are made by Weebly, Inc. itself.
- Your own Internet Service Provider, data plan, managed group network, or other service by which you connect to the Internet to view and browse this site: you will have to connect to the Internet to view and browse this website. With regards to viewing, browsing, and otherwise using and interacting with this website, you are 100% solely responsible for your own connection to the Internet and knowing who is providing the connection to the Internet that you are using. Andreas Philip Gross has no say, part, or other responsibility regarding how, when, or what service you use to connect to the Internet to view, browse, and otherwise engage with this website.
I, ANDREAS PHILIP GROSS, DON'T SELL YOUR DATA, GIVE IT AWAY TO 3RD PARTIES, OR USE IT FOR MARKETING PURPOSES. IF YOU DO ENTER ANY TYPE OF INFORMATION ON THIS SITE, HOWEVER, WEEBLY, THE PLATFORM ON WHICH THIS WEBSITE IS BUILT, WILL TAKE REASONABLE MEASURES TO SAFEGUARD YOUR DATA. THIS INCLUDES ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL SAFEGUARDS, TO PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION FROM LOSS, THEFT, AND MISUSE, AND UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, DISCLOUSURE, ALTERATION, AND DESTRUCTION. NEVERTHELESS, THE INTERNET IS NOT A 100% SECURE ENVIRONMENT, AND WEEBLY CANNOT GUARANTEE ABSOLUTE SECURITY OF THE TRANSMISSION OR STORAGE OF YOUR INFORMATION. WEEBLY HOLDS INFORMATION ABOUT YOU ON ITS OWN PREMISES AND ALSO USES THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS.
WEEBLY MAY USE THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN, THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
WHEN YOU USE THIS WEBSITE, ANDREAS PHILIP GROSS ENTERPRISES, THE WEBSITE ITSELF, BUILT ON WEEBLY'S WEBSITE BUILDER PLATFORM, COLLECTS USER INFORMATION FROM END-USERS - THAT'S YOU, THE PERSON BROWSING THIS WEBSITE RIGHT NOW :). WEEBLY REFERS TO THIS INFORMATION AS "Your Customers' Data," AND WEEBLY COLLECTS THIS INFORMATION IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
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