Pleasure and Pain

In life we are driven to seeking pleasure.    We therefore seek to avoid pain.   Pain is not always bad, as is pleasure not always good. Paul Lepa   Interpretation:  For example, we may perceive as work being painful, and vacations...

Team support

First day at work and have spent the whole day meeting individually with my mgmt team to discuss the 2011 business plan. I have made some very significant changes and bets on our future and wanted that I was on the right track and didn’t miss anything. The...

Great to be back at work

First day at work – and it was a great day.   Some really nice surprises.  Our new RedStores Packaging is now in use and I love it.  I saw it first when I saw our outbound bin, and the deep red looks so cool vs the purple. My prelim financial...

Big Picture Thinking

Inspirational day today.   Was actually quite exhausted today – and running on low energy.  But, despite that has a very inspirational conversation with Gerry.  One of the things that I have been doing poorly on is that I have stopped thinking...

Over the weekend

Few cool things over the weekend. 1st – finally (and I mean finally) after months of work, a US account via HSBC is now close to being opened.  Only took 4 months! 2nd – connected with some smart people about currency movements into China – the way we are doing...