Indeed I am very impressed to see people keep updating their blog yet remain interesting on the contents. I believe those people are people who read a lot. Because without any input, you will hardly get output, agree?

Working from home has many advantages. You can sleep until whatever time you want, you save cost in traveling to work, you can have cheaper and healthier food at home, you skip the rush hour jam, you can shop at anytime especially at the none peak hour where you can enjoy the spacious shopping mall, and most of all you can save the time in being jammed in the road. (Traffic jam is real annoying! According to statistic, people spend 2 full days in traffic jam every month, it’s almost 7% of your life there!) Isn’t it being a SOHO looks attractive? For sure!

But…there are damn a lot of traps in being a SOHO. First thing first, it’s discipline issue. You truly know that you are able to do all the above mentioned things but you will not do it. Why? Because you are working. You work for your pay check even though you are a SOHO. It doesn’t mean that you do not need to work anymore. You need to be self disciplined to work on your things. If you fail to be self disciplined. That’s it. You will end up spending the whole year wandering here and there doing nothing but yet claim yourself to be a SOHO. SOHO means you are on your own and nobody will monitor you. If you want to be successful, you better stick your ass on your chair and start working.

In fact being a SOHO you need to work even harder compared to your 9-5 job. This is because you have no sense of security at all. You don’t work, you don’t get paid. To worsen the situation, sometime you will not get paid even you have worked. You need to go the extra miles to earn what you are suppose to be earning. Contrary to the normal job, you get your pay check no matter you do your job well or not. Pretty simple to understand right? This is actually something that I am dealing everyday for the past 1 month. Trust me. That is horrible! That is very scary! You will not know when are you going to be rewarded for your so called hard work (sometimes you do not even know whether the work you are doing is a hard work or a stupid work which give no results at all to yourself). Everytime I feel doubt on the thing I am doing, I will try to recall the advice from those guru (I bet you know who I am talking about) to put the security thingy to the least important factor in my needs table. But I am still a newbie here definitely it is a skill that I need to master.

Besides these 2 traps, a SOHO needs to plan properly their own daily, weekly,annually task. Nobody will guide you and you need to get whatever resources to back you up. You plan your task and be sure that the task will lead you to your goals. If you think the task you work on doesn’t help, find another way. If it still doesn’t help, find another one. You need to keep searching for solutions until your goals are achieved. Even after that you still need to keep searching and planning. It needs a lot of creativity and business sense in searching the working way. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. SOHO plan it and embed it into their life and work. This is something I really not good in. I admitted that I am not good in planning. I do planning but still it seldom leads to the goal I wanted. I better put extra effort in this or else I am going to fail here.

So what other traps? I am still figuring out. These are so far the 3 most important things to become a successful SOHO that I have came across. Hey if you are a SOHO and is reading this. Why not share with me? I believe they are many more things I need to learn to be a professional SOHO.

Bottom line. I enjoy being a SOHO. Indeed SOHO-ing gives me freedom. I get control in whatever I do. But sometime I am thinking will this make me even more lazy or not. I do doubt whether will I achieve my goals or not. It is confusing and not secured. Besides doing my parts, I guess I can only keep praying. Wish me luck!

Some background on the presentation. Internet which grew from just one computer pinging another has only 5000 days of history (at the time the video is recorded) and the World Wide Web has gone so far until today where almost everything links to the internet. Data are transferred among networks, communications are done all around the world, billions of dollars being transacted. Just 5000 days the World Wide Web has already “embedded” into our lives and we cannot actually live without it. So what do you think what will happen in the next 5000 days? Yup the video will tell you about that.

Some background on the presenter. Kevin Kelly is the editor of Wired Magazine. His background is too long for me to elaborate here but one thing, he is a great man. He wrote many books and one of it, I cannot remember what’s the name already but you can check from wikipedia, is the reference for the screen play of The Matrix Trilogy. No wonder I find his concept is a bit similar with The Matrix. Also, the presentation here is kinda related to the movie Wall-E. If you still remember, people live in the spaceship, cannot walk and never touch each others hand before. The communications and chemistry between human can only be done through computer and etc. It is kinda same thing here you think deep enough.

Okay enough crap, here is the video. Hope you will like it.

Basically what I have done are:-

• Traveled a few places
• Eaten some special nice food
• Club a little bit
• Work a little bit
• and most importantly, gain a few pounds (Damn it! Not again!)

Okay I promise I am going to go on diet! I will make sure I will get myself slimmed down! I will do sports everyday! I will control my food intake! No nasi lemak no maggie goreng! Yeah~this is exactly what I have been saying and doing for the past 10 years. LOL.. I “believe” I am doing a great job! Agree? I study engineering, and work as one for 1 and a half year but no longer am now. Yaya.. I am jobless now. So if you have any job opening that gives good pay and work least hour and if possible can work from home, do contact me okay? I strongly believe I am fit for the job. You know it’s not easy to cope with the stress at home right? But I can.. I definitely can cope with the stress, please…gimme a call..

Question, what do I do for living now? hmm..like many others around the world, I am doing some internet marketing stuff. Yaya, everybody wants to earn some bucks from the dot com so do I. I feel that internet marketing is something that provides unlimited potential to whatever you want to do. As long as you have some special ideas which are contrary from the offline world, hey, try online! You are just a few clicks from the world. You will eventually meet somebody who speaks the same language.

There are many things happening around the world, and myself. This vacations take so long and it is never ending. Bottom line, I am good, and I am back. I wish to update my life to the world. Hopefully you will join me in the blogging world.