oh Jerry! Brother. Let me give you a hug.. Im really feeling you.
Will you let me tell you what to do?
Please start by taking the next two days off.. Spend it with your family.
You've been burning the candle at both ends.. and sometimes it makes everything seem much worse than it really is.
What you do for the community is more than most. Please let that in.
Your desire to help is from a great heart.. and sometimes we want to fix everything ourselves.. but we cannot. You can't single handedly make everything ok.. Its not really possible.. We have to honor ourselves and know in our hearts that what we do is the best we can do, and no one can ask more from us.. Im sure that you are doing the best you can do.. it seems very obvious. SO please take a step back and appreciate yourself.
Now, if you ask me the most important things you do on Steemit i believe it is your desire to help find good content from other people. You are doing this already and it is probably the single most important thing i can see that is needed here. Why? Because SO many people like myself pour out hearts and souls into posts, some of us spend hours on a single post.. There are so many people who are writing amazing content, like on my ecoTrain, and they will not last long. I mean how many posts can you write that gets just 5 or 10 views before you want to give it up.. With the ever increasing user base, this will only become more the case.
Therefore, I would say you should use your amazing mind to keep figuring out ways to help good posts get discovered. I have done what I can to do this by creating the ecoTrain, but im sure you can come up with even better ideas..
By doing this you will continue to bring such joy to authors, and also the people who end up reading and benefiting from these posts.. Promote those topics that are close to your heart like veganism, love, etc and see how nice it will feel.. We must do what makes us feel good..
I hope this helps! I feel a good connection with you since some time and would be very happy to chat further to see if i can help you come up with any new ways to achieve this.. Im sure there are some!
See you Wednesday Jerry! ;-)
<3
@eco-alex thank you very much because you shared exactly what I needed to hear! I am hear to stay and need to step back a bit to get perspective. Take some time off and return refreshed. I will take Tuesday and Wednesday off to just let my scheduled posts come out!
That's wonderful news, im sure you will feel a lot happier, clearer and more focused after your short break. Just like steem power, we need time to recharge ;)
Awww I can feel the love you guys ❤❤❤ @eco-alex said everything I wanted to say and then some. I hope you have a great time off Jerry. Dont worry about Steemit world - we'll all still be here when you get back :)
Hey Jerry, I don´t feel experienced enough to give you advice... but, I´m not sure what all your currently running projects are, I know about your effort to make this whole crypto-coin-stuff kind of understandable for newbies like me. So what you did with your videos to me personally was 1) make understand better the tools and sources for crypto, which 2) got me into the mining and trading, followed up by 3) getting me to know and to sign up on steemit.com (yes this one our video was really hipnotyzing...).
I don´t own much yet, and I already thank you a lot.. but I´m sure in a year from now, I will want to paint your profile picture on my new Lamborghini :o)
You´ve done too good till now, relax.
Thanks!
you are oxygen of steem it
When you return id love to see if you would like to follow the ecoTrain feed as a VIP. We,ve done a lot to bring wonderful authors here and the final piece of the puzzle to make it all come together would be having you on board. It feels like a perfect fit.
https://steemit.com/created/ecotrain
Hi @jerrybanfield, you are the one who referred me to Steemit, thank you.
Try not to worry too much and just be yourself.
Have a nice day!
My attention seeking gif.
Hello @jerrybanfield #teamjerry
This is my attempt at an honest and straight forward reply, and I am including it as a reply because @eco-alex 's post was very good.
Everything here on out is my humble opinion.
Write less posts. Give it your all to make high quality content. 3-6 posts a week is ambitious. Talk to me (us) about your projects, workflow, cryptocurrencies and flights of fancy.
Read more comments on the steem platform. Make friends. Minimize chatting off or outside of the steem platform.
Upvote! And use that slider wisely, its a powerful tool. Tell your followers that your upvotes roughly represent a 0-5 scale, 5 percent upvote being an enormously helpful or appreciated comment, and less percentage being less valuable but still creating an interaction. A very small upvote could indicate a certain message.
Make a scale with your followers! Keep the voting percentage low so that you can interact more. Perhaps a high quality article could be voted with more power, but 0-5 percent seems just right for comments.
Stop doing what doesnt bring you immediate joy and passion. Drop the witnessing and the steem.chat and whatever else your not digging and do less stuff better.
I love the dream behind steemJ!
Thanks Jerry for opening a dialogue.
Jerry for president!
I like #teamjerry. If you want to make yourself feel better by making someone else feel better you can help me with my steam because I have the same feeling of going 3 hours a night but look i only got 4 bucks!? hehe.
Also i @'d you last night as one of my inspirations and mentors and checked today if you'd reply but wimp womp, i cry too seeing no up votes or attention from any of my fav bloggers lol .... ^_^
Cheer up dude. You're bout be rich off the recession remember!?
Start a coin or something that can help us little crypto babies ?!!
live forever as a Leader face on a coin that didn't destroy a country through political arbitrage or currency debasement... Maybe one that made people richer than you already have helped folks too.
You help us every day man, remember that, feel good about your self as a beacon of light giving us broke nerds hope..
i mean my moms 60, black, single, having cervical surgery, just lost her job as an art teacher for sending the wrong brat with the wrong uber, hesitant to try uber or anything else as a new revenue source, and crying in the other room ass we speak.
Thats why I'm studying crypto 5 hours a night the last 5 weeks... you were maybe the 4th youtube i watched, and 5 weeks later i still come back to you.
Sound advice eco alex. Just looking at the sheer amount of comments on this single post, gives me some idea of what jerry has to deal with on a daily basis. But like you say, great minds and all... sometimes cooperation , coordination, delegation and teamwork are the best way forward ... but first, jerry, take a break. you deserve it.
Great advice. Read this one Jerry!
Best comment @eco-alex!