Getting Away From It All

I took a break this week and took my wife over to our apartment in Spain where we enjoyed a few days of blazing sunshine and relaxation.

For the first time in many years, I reisited the urge to take a laptop and steered clear of all Internet cafes that until now have proved irresistible to me when I'm away.

What a refreshing change!

For four days, I have been completely free of technology and noise. Not even a television was turned on!

Even the hire car had a couple of days off when some kind local residents lent us their bicyles to discover the beautiful, unspoilt area of the Mar Menor.

I often joke that I don't have a job and that I don't work. I realised this week that although I work mostly online, I actually put in twice as many hours as just about anybody I know!

Now that I am back home, I am straight back online. My emails have all been answered and I have caught up with all of the little things I had left undone before I went away.

It's not even 9am yet!

Most people haven't even started work yet. I know, because I can see the queues of traffic outside!

It got me thinking.

Many Internet marketers will love to show you themselves relaxing in some idyllic, sunny place, demonstrating how you can be just like them, if only you buy their super-expensive products or attend their seminars.

Let me tell you. It's a mythical lifestyle.

These guys work hard, just like me. I bet they are as addicted to the net as I am. I bet they do minimum 80 hours weeks.

You see, there is no magic formula to making money online or elsewhere. Somebody, somewhere has to do the work.

Yes, some can be outsourced and of course, automation helps too.

But the thinking, the writing, the learning and to some degree, the teaching and preaching involved when you make your living online, never stops.

Unless you take time off occasionally.

This week, I had my first proper break in ages. I strongly recommend that everyone who works, or wants to work online, do exactly the same thing and totally remove themselves from technology - you'll be amazed to find that there is a slow old world out there.