I’m getting ready to leave for a few days, and thought I’d leave with a short post about the purpose of business. I’ll be on the Pacific coast a couple hours south of Puerto Vallarta, in an area where the beaches go on and on. The place my wife and I will be staying in has no Internet, and no phone. There are Internet Café’s nearby, but I don’t plan to visit them.

Why are we in business, those of us who are self-employed? To make money, of course, but why? It is not money for money’s sake. It is the freedom. It is being able to choose where and how we live (we live in Chapala, in central Mexico). And it is also being able to choose how much we work. I’m choosing not to work for the next few days, but to relax and reflect on 2007, and decide what I want for 2008.

Since I use WordPress I could have posted daily messages for the time I will be gone on this blog. It might have been a slight benefit for the SEO ranking. In fact I have done just that with some of my other blogs. But since this site is about the realities of creating and managing your Web Empire, I thought it a good idea to emphasize the benefits as well as the work involved.

I should be back before the new year begins … or maybe not.