This is a blog without guile or thoughts on the style. Yes,
certainly not for SEO or traffic purposes. And yes, I won’t be showing this to
clients if I want to offer my services as content strategist. This one here is without
guile, just me, writing what comes inside my mind talking and contemplating on
things so that I can uplift my spirit. And yes, I also have this wishful
thinking that I can uplift your spirit too.
So like drinking buddies, we sit around the table talking
about nonsense things but contented on the company that we have. I prefer to
have wonderful conversation with a cup of coffee, frappe actually, on hand
sipping it, extending it for hours. The longer I have to coffee the more topics
we can talk about.
And I love talking about possibilities online. That is all
that I can think of right now. I feel I am in love and I can’t eat and sleep
(well, the latter more prevalent than the first one) thinking about how
wonderful online is.
But I am not techie. I am not into gadgets. I don’t own
iphone and I do my online gigs using my hp mini.
What I love online is the opportunity it provides for a lot
of people such as moms like me. Imagine, because I can work online, I can work
at home. I am working while my baby sat on my lap trying to get my hands off
the keyboard. It is an image to behold.
Yes, I have to shoo them away when I have to write but most
of the time, one or both of my kids can be found sitting on my lap or beside me
while I am working. This is totally amazing.
But having a virtual career is scary because everything is
happening within this small corner of my mini laptop. The idea that you can’t
hold one position for long and the change is quite abrupt… funny though, I was
fired quite abruptly too from my offline position. In fact, the last work I
have offline lasted only three months and barely. A month later, I got this
position as a VA and been doing this for almost six months. Amazing…
Working online, you will need to have courage, confidence in
your own capabilities, flexibility, discipline, determination and most of all
imagination. You will need to be creative enough to constantly evolve. When
clients go, you will need to land on both feet so you can jump higher than the
last time.
Everything is movement online.
You go for an idea. You dream it, build it and make it come
true. It is not easy, but you can be who you want to be online. If you are an
ordinary nurse, you can be extra ordinary health adviser online. If you are a
bored guidance counselor, you can be an awesome psychiatrist online encouraging
changes on people’s lives.
The possibility is limitless and all in the spirit of fun.
Of course, that won’t be at all times. As for me, I got cold
feet. I was sure I was ready to start my own thing and be awesome online. I
feel awesome thinking about it too. But thinking is so different from doing
because doing can be exhausting. And if you do both at the same time, you will
end up losing all the energy you need to launch.
But hey, as my online friend said, “Nothing Usome is build
overnight”. So yeah, I go on. One small step, when I can, I make. And when I
have enough energy, I leap too.
One thing that assures me with what I do is that there is no
failure if you explore. This is the moment when it is the climb that is the big
win and that when you have reach the peak, it I just when you are resting so
you can go down and get grounded to find other peaks to climb again.
The feeling is just all up, even when I am feeling down.
This is because the possibilities are just all there and
they continue to amaze me. The connection that I have with people from
different places makes me happy. The opportunity of learning from working with
people who make organizing actually fun and a way of life made me dream more and
act more.
So I don’t really stay stumbled for long.
I can’t, not with all these staring at me telling me what is
there to be sad for, or to be afraid for in that matter? When I chose to leap,
I learned to take on challenges. Yes, admittedly I was filled with bravado but
I was also filled with a great desire to work, to follow a career online and to
be awesome at what I do.
So all in all, I am happy. Scared at times, but mostly
happy.
And now, your time to
share
What is it that one thing you are passionate about online? Share by writing a comment below. I would love reading about it from you.
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