Nyasar di Jalan

Seperti bersaing dengan mahluk gaib tak terlihat. Itulah yang kurasakan sebagai investor ritel kecil-kecilan dalam pasar saham Indonesia. Jadi memang tidak mudah untuk sambil belajar sambil praktek dalam skala kecil, namun dalam saat yang sama tetap harus melakukan pekerjaan biasa 9-to-5 (yang dalam hal di Indonesia menjadi 08:30-17:30 WIB). Jadi kalau ditanyakan soal analisis fundamental dan analisis teknikal, aku yakin kalau aku hanya bisa tersenyum dan tidak menjawab apa-apa karena memang seringnya justru otakku sudah terlalu lelah untuk berpikir dan mengingat teori apapun. Tentu saja ini berbahaya karena bila aku melakukan aksi pembelian atau penjualan saham padahal tidak melakukan analisis sebelumnya, hampir pasti aku hanya akan mendapatkan kerugian belaka. Sejujurnya, sudah pernah terjadi dan sepertinya akan terjadi lagi di masa yang akan datang. Padahal orang-orang yang tidak tahu apa itu pasar saham Indonesia tetapi tahu aku melakukan aksi jual beli saham akan menganggap a...

 So after reading and learning about a lot of things online, in Twitter, YouTube videos, internet articles and opinion, I realized that I am solely responsible to start doing this personal upgrade activities: self-study, adequate good quality sleep, eating healthy, physical exercises, and commitment to spouse. It seemed like a lot of thing and I could be easily overwhelmed by the feelings when there are too many new materials to study. The obstacle to my self-study intention is my discipline and commitment and consentration can easly faltered by any distraction. Like when I paused the "Introductory to R" video in YouTube because I felt sleepy. Instead of resting my head for a few minutes, I decided to open my web browser and write this post. I'm unable to just let go and relax. Not good at all. I will talk about this "compound interest in self-study" in next post. I can't fend off sleep...

I should push myself harder to gain new skills needed to expand my possibility channel of income. Multiple strain of income is needed ASAP because when you have spouse that you want to keep happy, at least I would have money as to skip some part of mundane things I must go through. Talking. Like in making podcast, I need a continuous script (and scriptwriter) that adequate to make it to next point of life. The thing is I don't suppose I can get it to be another source of income stream because not a lot of people would be listening. Writing. Like keeping this blog up to date. Not easy and definitely not enough content to achieve traction to lead anywhere. Probematic because I want to get as much done as possible but I know I can screw up easily. You know what? I should be starting from something, somewhere.

Why bother update this at all? That's my original thought when I checked the statistic of this blog. It seemed like no one bother to read blogs (mine or anybody's personal blog) at all. This writing used up my time and my money (internet connections aren't free nor cheap in my country). And after further searching around topic of personal blogging, I did arrive at conclusion that no one do this anymore, just for the sake of writing. Either people monetize the blog somehow, or just quit already. Here's what I should do, at least what I thought: I should write more and more about any topic that interest me, aligned those topics with current situation, buy a domain name that feel pro, use non-free template for the blog, change the layout to be more interesting. Maybe create some videos of stuffs that related to my writings, post them in YouTube, and link them in my post here, or maybe some once a month podcast post in Soundcloud? A lot of work for ...