Rejoining the Unfolding Path - Vlog 6
😁 Grinning From Ear To Ear! 😁
What a lovely day I've had!
It started pretty much as Sunday's usually do, nice and slow.
When I got onto Steemit @whatamidoing had left a message and we ended up having a conversation on Discord. I was already mulling things over, as usual and I found that I'd taken a big step back again.
Mainly, I'd gone back to asking myself how I wanted to spend my time and if I wanted to continue spending so much of it on Steemit.
When I first came to Steemit it was part of a life experiment of seeing what happens if you let life take the lead rather than the other way around. However, somewhere in all that I have gotten caught up in details that aren't really important to me and this takes away a lot of the fun.
I had already decided I was going back to my original plan of letting things unfold more, when I noticed that, for the second week in a row, I was in @abh12345's Community Curation Excellence League and had won 1 SBD.
Then, as I read a bit further I found that @abh12345 had also delegated 75SP to me. Now, I'm not sure why but that just made me squeak with delight!
Fortunately, I had the foresight to make a video about it, there and then. If I'd left it until this evening I doubt it would have been made. Too much wine at lunch celebrating my daughter's birthday and all that!
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I hope the sound is a bit better on this one as it's inside so no wind noise. However, I couldn't find my mic so just had to use the one on the phone. I think it's OK though!
Technical aspects of the video are ok.
I'm very glad to see you happy again. You'r enjoying and that's great.
Congrats for the stuff on that league and for the delegation that maybe helps you feel more helpful to the community, you actually are with a huge SP or a small one, your thoughts, your feelings, your shares, your art, your friendship and time are big gifts to us, so don't worry too much(in my opinion) about rewardings, let your insticts flow guide you, all will be fine.
Have a nice week ahead
Thanks, as always, @drakernoise. Your support is very much appreciated.
It's wonderful to hear how you're assessing your life at Steemit Gillian and how it may not always be in sync with your aspirations of how you want your life to be. It's so essential to have these reflective moments, I feel.
I love to feel that by letting my intuition guide me to what I need to see here, what is needed will unfold. But sometimes I feel over-expanded and have to take a little 'holiday' to catch up with 'me' again.
Somehow it always comes back to a balance. Doing what we need to do for ourselves and our work, as well as going with the flow of what comes to us, challenging us, influencing us, inspiring us. 🦋⚖️🦋
Thank you for listening and commenting @allyinspirit. Your thoughts on this are very much appreciated since I know you've posted yourself about balance.
Making the videos is helping me see that when I'm coming from that emotional space of panic and comaprison I either end up in a low mood or my feelings swinging wildly back and forth.
Writing this I am reminded of how much I miss you posts when you're taking your little holidays. Connecting with you always settles me down and brings me back to a quieter place. 😍
I feel as though I've strayed a long way from the path and Steemit is still trying to pull me back. I'm not sure if I could take a 100% complete break which is never a good way to be about anything, I feel. But I'm OK with that, for now. Let's see what unfolds today.
That for being a calm presence when life gets stormy. 💙
If what I can share has that sort of effect ~ Gives me reason and purpose to continue sharing here.
Great mate. 💖⚖️💖
Well that is good to hear @allyinspirit but only when moved to do so of course! 💙
Hi Gillian
I'm so happy to have been able to provide that little boost you needed to get back in the zone!
I'm really the same as you with regards to life, I need to take the bull by the horns and let life drive me less.
4th in the league is great, and so is the lack of self-votes - those are a killer for the league placing and honestly, really not that rewarding for yourself at this stage :)
I wish I could have given you enough to get to 500 SP, where the 'slider' comes into play when you press the up-vote button - this allows you to manage your voting a bit better, as for example, you can reduce the vote amount for comments, and rise it for posts - or whatever you choose.
Compared to the last 2 months, now is a good time if you were to buy STEEM - I would not buy it as a monthly delegation though, i would buy it outright, and power it up.
No-one knows if the price will fall further, but as long as it's invested (as Steem Power), then you don't need to worry so much about short term price swings, and plan for 2/3+ years ahead.
Thanks for mentioning my league, again, super glad it has giving you a boost for the week!
Asher
Hi Asher.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting on this one. You're right about the self-votes not being worth much at this stage, of course. It was a bit of a knee jerk response to a feeling of not wanting to get left behind. But, hand on heart, I can't say that I wouldn't do it in the future. I'm still finding my way around and working out what works best.
If you see any at the moment, however, I can assure you they are errors. I think I'm voting for someone else post and end up voting on my comment.
I've been using the Busy interface so I can use the slider and I'm not used to it yet. I caught a couple yesterday and removed them and put them on the post where I intended them to be. 😊
Thanks for your thoughts on the buying STEEM. They're always welcome.
Do you have any tips on how to get the absolute maximum out of my SP. Or is that cheating if you tell me? 😊
Is it wise, for example to keep my VP above 80%? Should it be at that when I go to bed at night in order to make sure I'm using every drop on my VP? I'm sure there's a strategy to make the most of my voting and delegation but I struggle with this side of things.
If I could be upvoting more I would like to do that. It seems a shame to leave those votes on the table so to speak. Or am i misunderstanding this?
Have a fun day @abh12345!
You are welcome.
Yes I sometimes 'error', I guess that's what happens when you cast 1000+ votes a week - i should try to code in the removal of those when you unvote the content....
No it's not cheating :) In my post is a summary of what I think works best.
Voting at 20-25 mins, trying to get 'in' before bigger votes, seeking #ocd, #sndbox, #utopian-io content that has not been voted on yet by acidyo, sndbox, utopian-io respectively.
As far as your vote power, it is best to keep it high. I would say 80% is a low for the overnight recharge.
Under 500 SP, I'd go with writing a good comment and upvoting the response if you get one. Rewards are small at this level, and so the reward of the content creator seeing your vote on the comment, and making a mental note of you will work in your favor more - this is my opinion :)
Have a good day!
Thanks @abh12345. I was asking more from the view point of being able to spread my votes wide whilst keeping them as high as possible rather than curation.
I tried your curation tips last week but didn't do too well so, for now, I want to get the most out of my commenting.
I think I've been voting on the content curators replies but I will definitely pay more attention to this.
It seems like 500 SP is still a good goal to be aiming for me.
Have a fun day! 😊
Let life live you! Yes! Do that! 😀
Don't make plans and try to control any outcomes - just be yourself - maybe find your niche and do what suits you. Everything else won't make you happy anyway.
...and please forget this "I'll get negative points for self-voting".
According to a very wise man (which would be me 😉), your self-upvote percentage should be 60%, so that the rest 40% you upvote others can increase in weight over time. This way the 40% you upvote others will soon be worth much more and everyone profits! A self-upvote is an act of self-love and you can only love others, when you are full of self-love first. To enhance this effect, every time you upvote yourself, put your hands to your heart and say: I love you! Try it... it is the best tip I can give you to become successful and have a joyful life! ❤️
Thanks for your thoughtful comment @atmosblack.
When I say I'll get negative points for self-voting I mean literally. I am referring specifically to the curation league I mentioned. I have no problem with self voting but it's the way the league is set up so I'm happy to go along with that for now. And, by playing by those rules I now have a 75 SP delegation that I didn't have last week so I now have more weight to spread around. I consider that a great success. 😊
This is the game I find myself in for now. I stopped self voting last week to see how well I could do in the league and it paid off.
This week I'm going to enjoy the delegation and see how things unfold. 😍
Ok... whatever game this league is, I wish you much success with it!
Maybe in the future I will do a "self-love league", that rewards everyone who gives 60% of his VP to himself with a 1000SP delegation reward. See... I just got motivated to become a whale soon, to make this a possibility! 😀
Excellent! I'm definitely up for that game too.
Sounds like the sooner you become a whale the better. Are you nearly there yet? 😁 😍 😁
I keep finding myself caught up in the same things. It is so terribly difficult for me not to pick up the reign and try to force something to happen.
I try to live my life by the motto that everything happens for a reason but I feel I'm failing at that lately. This was a great reminder about control and priorities and I'm thankful you shared it.
Yay! I'm not alone. Thanks for joining the conversation @papacrusher.
One of the difficulties that I find with the idea that "everything happens for a reason" is that the mind likes to take over and decide what that reason is. So you sort of end up down an alley again, although feeling better about it because it sounds like you're not trying to force stuff.
It is amazing how much the mind want's to make stuff up about stuff. To justify or add meaning. When we truly come from a place of not knowing then, and only then, can we follow the unfolding path. But maybe that's just another story too. 😁
In the end I come back to the associated feeling and when I'm open and exploring and not analysing I have more fun and things flow.
Trying to make stuff happen, even if it seems to be for all the right reasons, inevitably seems to end up with me feeling fed up.
YES! EXACTLY! This is maddening as well.
I too feel "off"when trying to help(and by help, I mean control) situations and I end up feeling sluggish and heavy emotionally. Maybe I need to re-evaluate my eveything happpens for a reason and modify it to everything happens...period.
Ooooo. Yes. I like that @papcrusher. Everything happens, full-stop. 💙
Congratulations, that is very exciting! Hope you enjoy an inspiring and inspired week! I like what you said about enjoying projects that unfold ...
Thank you @shanibeer. an inspiring and inspired week would be wonderful so let's see what unfolds!
Thanks for stopping by!
I'm glad everything's going well. You let the situation go and everything will be even better. Be yourself and I wish You success :)
Thank you @madlenfox. I always appreciate your support. Hope you've had a lovely weekend, 😊
Nice! I finally watched them all! What a great guy to delegate you some more SP! It just shows how great this community really is! 😃
He's on a bit of a missions @rimicane. I'll be resteeming his post explaining it later. 😊
Alright, I will be keeping an eye open!
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