Senior Director's Theme: Enjoy Life

Our Senior Managing Director's essay opens: "Fifty years of life — my theme is 'enjoy life.'" His crushing loss at Koshien, business ups and downs, the grueling road to listing — all line up under that single phrase. "It must have been constant hardship, but inside my head it was fun.

We were changing, growing, attempting what we'd never done — and that feeling converted pain into joy." No one can erase hardship, but you can give it meaning: pain understood as part of a challenge becomes the muscle ache of growth. People with a theme are strong — when lost, they simply ask it: which way is more fun?

Can you state your life's theme in one phrase?

What do you work for?