I was raised with three brothers and I can’t really comment on what it’s like to live as a single child. As you will see below, my kids don’t always get along but I think they do love each other.
If they don’t get along it will be most likely because…
Stalking his prey Alexis the 2 year old will stare down the object of affection of Zoé. Once the lovely Zoé leaves the said object unattended for more than 3 seconds, Alexis will jump on the said object and make a sprint for the nearest exit with a big grin on his face.
Zoé will then start to whine and cry and Alexis will wait until father asks’ him to render the said object to Zoé. He will then oblige and look for congratulations from father. Father will pat Alexis on the back and say thanks for shinning like a star.
This positive reinforcement will make Alexis stalk Zoé’s object of affection again so he can get another pat on the back.
If I could just find a way to congratulate him for not stealing things from his sister!
What is there to say about the past holidays’? I sincerely would like my whole 2008 to look like my holidays… Basically to take time to…
- Spend time with the kids
- Have a glass of wine with my spouse
- Spend time with friends and family
We went to the cottage on the 27th and it was as expected a drastic change of pace. On the first night, after putting the kids to bed, my sister sang as I played guitar in front of the fire. It had been a while since I had spent time with her and it was really great.
I would like to take the time to thank all my Electronic Time Capsule followers for 2007 and wish them all the best for 2008.
As for Electronic Time Capsule, we have some additions we will be doing this year, basically adding slowing to a strong foundation. Should you see something changed or added for 2008, don’t hesitate, send me your request at david@electronictimecapsule.com
Cheers,
David
I laugh when I hear somebody whine about winter… They live in Canada after all and it’s not a matter of choice… coming December, snow will fall. I find it relative to all the other seasons… either you embrace it or either you whine.
To me the first snowfall means different things. In my previous business, I never wanted to go into the office. I owned an insurance agency and I would receive multiple claim reports from vehicles accidents. This would inevitably decrease my commission rates for the following year… In the past I would feel the opposite of black Monday… more like red Monday!
Since I sold the insurance business, it was somewhat different to see my managers adjusting to getting backhoes out to remove snow… Hmm this might be a different world? The reality is snow slows down 85% of our operations from trucking to drainage to excavation… so yeah business wise, it’s still doesn’t like white gold to me!
On the flip side… There is nothing else for a fun time than jumping and sliding in the snow. We spent the whole morning building a fort and throwing snow at each other… we came back in at noon, dripping wet with our cheeks nice and red.
Again, I choose to embrace, as for the others… maybe moving to Texas is an idea!
Meet Hugo… the cousin in the middle. Last Friday was a bit of a suprise as 2 old friends came over to play cards… Well we ended up chatting till late into the night and my spouse was having a shopping day in montreal…i.e. leaving at 7am.
I usually pick up Hugo around 9am on saturday’s for our usual walk in the woods with the kids. I call my brother who says ‘ I have to stay at home today, please bring the kids and go to work, I am sure you have lots to do’.
I slept from 10am till noon, picked up the kids at 1 and put them to bed…including myself till 3…
Hugo…thanks for being such a great cousin to my kids.
Here is the truth… I was born in 1975 and I don’t really care for KISS. All the time I was there I kept thinking… Couldn’t they have picked up AC/DC?
This being said, there seemed to be plenty of KISS fans in the EO Organization. We were in the Mandalay Bay fake Beach resort and the bar was open. A nice mix to throw a party. As everybody was on the beach and the water was about knees height, it took only one individual to jump in the water and all hell broke loose! Just like a real concert… I do have to say… EO’rs drive their business hard and intense and they also party hard and intense!
So for all the KISS fans out there… Sorry I couldn’t appreciate it! Well it did beat the last concert I attended… Milli Vanelli in 1993… I have been looking for the class action lawsuit since then and haven’t found it.
I spent the last week in Las Vegas for a convention with the Entrepreneurs Organization. I have been a member of that organization for the last 5 years and it (my membership) has changed my life.
We call our conventions ‘Universities’ we have speakers from throughout the world…but the best of them are always fellow members with crazy stories of success or failures. There are also the contacts and the stories of all the other members who are with you at the conference. Those are the stories you don’t want to miss. The stories are not about success and look at me…they are the true stories of trenches… The hardships, the filing of bankruptcies and obviously the story of the guys who got back up to start again. I hear this story over and over.
If any of you are reading this and are entrepreneurs…have a look at
Special Thanks to the crazy stories of these guys.
www.buddytv.com
www.wbusiness.biz
www.spaceislandgroup.com
I will share stories over the upcoming blogs of the week it was…from our private KISS concert to our night at the PURE Club.
Entrepreneur Organization… to Fuel the entrepreneurial spirit. Well it did last week
Well he was never really a baby since he didn’t want to be rocked unless he was puking on you and he never really wanted to be huged. Since day one, he has been doing his thing and walking into unbeaten paths. Doesn’t change a thing in the world that I am really proud of you.
There are these moments you just won’t forget
Well I took a break from blogging. I can’t really explain why except I took a new position as the CEO of www.lapointedrainage.ca . This is my spouses’ family business.
I work in jeans, in dust with hard boots and blue collar guys. I swear in French and pretty much provide direction and leadership to our group of 20 employees.
I have found the Electronic Time Capsule project is well under way and what is required for the project is a much more ‘hands on’ and technically savvy individual than me. I am not the prototype to analyze data and play around with coding. This being said I am still the face of Electronic Time Capsule and I remain as the boss should there be any problem.
The upside to all this is I am working with individuals again. Coming back to my personal mission of creating and leading situations to enhance peoples lives’ has been great as I was getting a bit tired of working by myself at my kitchen table.
I leave you with a great picture of a man who took many risks as an entrepreneur in his life and has always held his chin up, in the bad times and good times. Most of all he kept positive at all times and it has paid him tremendously. The man you see is my father in law with his grandson (my child) Alexis.
