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The Spa Lifestyle
Internet Business Box
I'm back on the cruise ship and we have set sail after watching a beatiful sunset and having a five star dinner.
I had a spa appointment for a massage and a pedicure right after dinner. I had to laugh when I was presented with a brochure after my massage entitled:
The Spa Lifestyle
I had just written about the "Internet Lifestyle" from the beach earlier in the day.
The Internet lifestyle is all about personal freedom. If you make your living from the Internet, you can do it from anywhere. You can even work from a hammock on the beach like I did earlier today... or from the Internet cafe aboard a cruise ship as I am right this minute (yep... they have Internet aboard almost all cruise ships these days).
I own a yacht and ironically, I'll be returning directly to my yacht right after this cruise. Nearly all large sea faring boats have access to email through a service called sailmail. If you ever receive an email using some seemingly random letters and numbers for the email address @sailmail.org then you have just received an email from the middle of the ocean. It was sent via single side band short wave radio which nearly all ocean going boats carry for long distance easy communication.
Most yachts also have a satellite Internet connection just like this cruise ship I am on. There is a slight one second lag between each web page loaded, but after the one second lag, we generally experience just as high speed of Internet as land lovers.
On land, you can find Internet cafes in some of the most remote areas on earth. I recently visited a tribe that is so remote that it takes a two hour drive or boat ride from even the closest municipal airport. Their tribe has power during the day from a shared generator. They don't have any electricity, water or any other municipal services from outside their tribal area. You have to take a truck or a boat on a dirt road or a narrow river to even reach this tribe.
But they have an Internet cafe. In fact, the tribe has only 5,000 members currently, but the Internet cafe has twelve computers and it's own generator so you can access the Internet even at night when the tribe's main generator has been turned off.
I don't know much about this "spa lifestyle" other than the fact that it is a regular part of my "Internet lifestyle." The Internet lifestyle allows me to work from literally anywhere in the world... and I love to take advantage of that fact.
If you could work from anywhere in the world... where would you be working from this week?
Don't answer "the spa." I haven't figure out how to work while having a massage or a pedicure. And I don't want to learn how to do that.
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