Working according to plan

The picture is of my office this evening, that being a little room at the local library I sat in for a few hours after work to catch up on the work I need to do before the other work can begin. There is a lot of work to do but I am confident that if I spend the evenings and weekends getting my head around it, I will have a chance. I was just joking with @m31 when she asked how will I manage it all, Fake it til crypto moons.

The other day it came up as well. Would I keep the job if Steem suddenly turned around and I think that I would. It is not that this is a dream job for me (it is a good job by most standards), it is just that it can open up a lot of other gateways forward that are more interesting again and, would work in sync with my interest in Steem and blockchains.

Even while there is so much to do in the present, I do like to run myself ahead a little to see what possibilities and outcomes could lay up there that might be somewhat predictable to aim for, or avoid as well as the potential environmental changes like Steem taking a massive gain in the next bull run.

Regardless of price, I have been working very hard the last year and in many respects, the lower the price, the harder I have worked to earn some Steem. I have said several times that I see Steem much like a game, and I like to play the game well and to my own standard. I understand that not everyone is willing or able to do the same for various reasons, but that shouldn't stop anyone from making an attempt if they choose.

While I do see Steeming as hard work, it doesn't mean it isn't interesting or enjoyable work and I am kind of surprised how few people are willing to be here working for a potential future. There are still no guarantees, but if someone does want to try and improve their financial position in the future and potentially embed themselves into and leverage what might be a global game changing technology, Steem really is a no-brainer move.

I remember someone once saying to me something along the lines of, Let's see if you stay when the price is under a dollar... They were confused like many here of course. I don't earn dollars here, I earn Steem. And this is a good time to be in the pool earning. It is an even better time to be in the community building and developing too.

This is something that I am currently struggling with from a time perspective at the moment as I feel I don't have the time to put where I want. It will easy up once I find the rhythm but that takes time and patience as well as work in itself. I will get there though.

@organduo mentioned in a comment today about me putting a fair lot of personal experience into my content and how it helps make it ore relatable. I think it does because we all face various issues in our life and even if quite different in type or severity, there is still a lot of overlap.

This isn't the reason I include it though, the reason is that Steem gives me an opportunity to explore my own experiences and sort my head out so I am able to better understand. In some ways, it becomes like a shared experience, even if we have never met and perhaps, we all learn something from each other the more we interact. That is my hope anyway.

Tomorrow I have to give a two hour presentation on something of my choosing to show my training style and, my plan is to mostly wing it. What I find is that while I can prepare if needed, I am much better when I can respond to the participants issues directly. I have a couple exercises I am going to run with them to get them comfortable and then see how deep they are willing to go with a relative stranger in front of colleagues. It should be a bit of an experience for all of us.

As they say, experience is the best teacher and since we are going to be working pretty closely together, my plan is to stumble through an experience together, learn together and grow stronger together. When we come out the other side, I don't want them to have a new skill, I want them to have a changed outlook.

I think this is much like how I see Steem too. we are exploring a new world, experimenting and learning together and eventually, we will be stronger for it. The benefit here is that we are able to do it across many areas simultaneously and work in our interest areas or, where we choose to volunteer. I often find myself reminding people that this is an opt in platform, none are forced to come or stay. It is not a position of, if you don't like it, leave, it is a personal choice, it is empowering. I choose to stay.

I have seen quite a lot of people talking about what Steem isn't lately and I would like to change that narrative a little and instead encourage people to work out what Steem is to them. I think that this is the true power of Steem as it can almost become whatever someone wants of it as all it does is deliver multimedia content, what that content is and what medium is used is up to us, the users.

As the platform grows and more people realize the strength behind this simple idea, the more we will problem solve and get increasingly creative with the way we leverage the Steem blockchain to deliver what we want. Although we can replace it all and should, we aren't tied to what has come before us, we can take development, content, consumption and investment into a whole new direction and, own it all.

That is worth working toward.

Taraz
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