I cant believe that i am actually saying this - but i actually am realizing how important this trip is actually turning out to be.

You get different perspectives on what you think you are doing, what others think you are doing, what you think others are doing and finally try and make an assessment of what you should be doing.

I realize that most people think that ive done - still doing fairly well - but i realize that in nearly cutting off myself from stimulus from the commercial side of my what otherwise was a carefully cultivated business - the whole scenario is a little bit drifting.

Most importantly - i realize that one can be WILDLY successful by just doing / delegating / training for the basic, standardized tasks that one normally associates with our kinds of businesses - taking up too much of such, what is normally standardizable work is probably my biggest folly.

People with FAR less skillset levels achieve FAR bigger results by doing exactly what i am explaining.

WTF, i ve also probably been a little hormonal off late with this juvenilish crush and related obsession consuming a significant part of my mental bandwidth. This trip, lets say, apart from what work ive managed and all - is like a sort of a vacation. 

We´ll put the crush behind now - work on a response of respectable quality to all the stimulus i am gathering.

(P.s Ive been in Madrid since Sunday - i stay in this wonderfully located Hotel - bang on Plaza Mayor (sort of like the center of old town) - its like i step out - im in disneyland - the hotel, at 75 euros a night (BnB) is typically European - small rooms, arrogant pricks at the reception desks and but all the more charming because of where they are located. i use the internet at the cafe further along Calle Arenal, surrounded by babelicious senoritas furiously typing away on facebook and MSN msnger. I ve been taking photos, using the Metro a lot - taking long walks and all - i also bought a 50 euro ticket on a overnight train to Barcelona for Friday night - saturday will be spent there - before flying back to Madras on sunday)

P.s 2 - I suddenly miss having friends to talk all this through. WTF. Just when i thought i should stop being hormonal :x