Notes from My Journal:
I’m back in our pied-à-terre in Nicaragua. As always, I’m kicking myself for not coming down here more frequently and for longer stretches of time. Nicaragua is one of the most beautiful of the Central American countries, and the Pacific coastline towards the south, where Rancho Santana is located, is one of its prettiest parts.
For 30 years, since my first, exploratory trip in 1996, getting here from the airport in Managua has been a bit of a chore. In the early days, only the first 90 minutes of the drive was on pavement – a narrow, winding two-lane coastal road. After that, it took another two hours over dirt roads.
Gradually, some of those dirt roads were paved, and culverts were installed under the low areas that flooded during the rainy season (September through November). Two years ago, the trip was 80% paved. And this time, I went all the way from the airport in Managua to the resort on paved roads, cutting what was once three and a half hours of semi-rugged trekking into smooth cruising in less than two hours.
This is the end of the high season for tourism on “the Emerald Coast.” The temperature ranges from 80 to 90 in the daytime, and back down to the 70s at night. It rains occasionally, but not as hard as it does during the rainy season. Just enough to keep splashes of green on the hills and mountains in the distance.
I’ll be busy next week, taking part in a yearly get-together for our publishers and their key people from our global profit centers, including France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, Argentina, Australia, and Japan. (I think I’m leaving one out.) I’m looking forward to the brainstorming sessions, the strategy discussions, and to seeing older versions of the young people I mentored decades ago.
The following article was written specifically for my Japanese Legacy Wealth Monthly subscribers who have young children or grandchildren. It’s about the “mentoring” K and I did with our own kids when they were young. I’m reproducing it here because, when I looked it over, I not only saw the connection to the mentoring I’ve done in business, I realized that it should be of interest to anyone who wants to have the best possible chance to succeed in whatever field they’ve chosen to go into.
