DAY 48

Updated on: Saturday, 02-Apr-2005 2:57 PM, via the Canary Islands: Day 1.

Greetings from the Canary Islands! Yesterday I didn't have time to update the Blog as I was traveling with the guys and wife to the islands. What a place! Add the charming lifestyle of the Spaniards with a vacation and holiday atmosphere of an island, and you get life on the Canary Islands! There are a few of them. As for which one --it does not matter! The more adventrous, the better.

Life is a bit laid back here. Well, let me correct that. Life is a LOT LAID BACK. I went to the store a bit after lunch time. Prime time to get some groceries done. No luck. Just about every place is close for the siesta period -about 1 PM to 3 PM local time everything is closed.

I've spent less than a day on the island and feel very much relaxed and in the mood to holiday. The only trouble I had was the Internet access with a laptop, as I don't use public computers at all to access the various sites that I use regularly. This is a very good security tip, btw, (by-the-way) as the odds are pretty good that a public computer at an Internet Cafe or hotel will have some sort of virus or some other pesky software recording key strokes or worse.

With that challenge out of the way, the holiday returned.

Much of the early day was with the kids and at the beach. Then it's siesta time and now they are resting and I am blogging.

The most interesting part of my day was a conversation with my wife about success and personal desire. The collective "will" the "want" --what I can summarize as the collective "MOTIVATION" behind success.

The conversation came about because we have two kids, to guys, that can very quickly head in the wrong direction with many things. We know that many of the problems later in life are brought about by the early education and molding that we'll put them through now.

This week I will present an entire conversation about that as I continue from the beautiful Canary Islands!

Now you may wonder what I am doing while on vacation writing and updating this blog. Isn't this work? Nope. I have never considered the 'things' I do work. They do not tire me, they do not really grind me down. In fact, if wife and kids were not there, I'd just keep plugging away on my three projects 'til I am sleepy and then wake up several hours later and do it again.

There is a lot to talk about as I also made several decisions between the time I was off on a walk on the beach to the time I was in the shower.

The ides kept flowing and all of them were noted to discuss. So, without further delay let me type then and talk about then!

Talk to you later... Sam

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