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Again a plethora of information you are! Thanks for sharing, but seriously, I need to sit down for like a day or two and just study like all your posts. I must admit you are the one that kept me in the steemit game, when I reached out to you being all pissy about creating content for peanuts. Well things have changed for me basically the moment I reached out to, and in return I'm now have been motivated to up my steemit game. I just published what I consider my best post ever and it's already getting noticed. I would love for you to check it out if you have time, let me know if you think I'm on the right track. Much appreciated and thank you for you continued support!
-Dan
Congrats on your success! I love hearing I played a small part in you sticking around and finding enjoyment here. :)
Thank you Luke, you were the one that made a huge difference. If you blew me off when I reached out to you. I'm 90% sure I would have walked. Seriously, look at my blog up-votes and earnings before I met you and after. The difference is incredible. I owe you a debt of gratitude. Thank you!
The next phase is to move beyond earnings. That's when you'll truly find great value here. :)
I think we all go through the same process. First the money draws us in, then we get frustrated because others seem to be doing well but we aren't, then we start to make some progress, then we slow, eventually, realize it wasn't about the money after all.
During my journey, at one point I hid the $$$ for 24 hours. I think it was one of the best experiments I've done here.
You hit the nail on the head with what you just explained, which is exactly my experience. An added frustration for me is I've been used to a certain life style, to give you and Idea, check out my latest travel tip where I talk about riding a bike for a year and a half 2000 kilometers through five countries in south east asia, Then again all through the Ecuadorian Andes and coastline.
I maybe went online 20 minutes a day or every other day. To see my days go by while I sit infront of the computer has been very love hate. I'm a passionate person and I always want to succeed at whatever I do. This steemit has been a bigger challenge to me than maybe others, as it's taken me away from the lifestyle that I enjoy and love so much. I'm learning how things work here and I'm going to set up rules for myself. Like one hour in the morning with breakfast, and I do what I do, and maybe another hour in the evening afterwards.
But I must admit I get sucked in and I've spent up to 10 hours on here, then I get all upset with myself. @fitinfun says she spends on average 16 hours a day online! that is like my worst nightmare.
I enjoy the relationship I've built here, it more valuable than the money in many regards. I really value meeting people in real life that I have met on steemit. I'm a real life kind of guy and to expereince the cross over and meet people like @luczypher, @fitinfun, @milthrilweed, @donnaincancun in the real has been very special. Maybe I'll be in your neck of the woods some day for a Steemit meet up!
Interesting how you hid the earings I totally get that. I now check my steemit earnings like I check the stock market! It's addicting, and fascinating in many regards. Thanks again for your friendship and continued support. It means a lot.
-Dan
The conflict you feel, perhaps, is conflict with yourself. You can say it's taking you away from the lifestyle you love, but the reality is you are choosing connection, relationship, and interaction. You are choosing by your actions to be here. Steemit bridges the gap between digital and physical and causes us to see ourselves and others in a different light.
I think it's amazing and fantastic.
If we have to set limits for ourselves it may be because we are trying to escape something about ourselves, and we know that isn't right or healthy. Balance brings peace.
Keep in touch and don't get lost in the crowd. :)
Exactly Luke. You read me like a book. It's totally an internal conflict.....Steemit is great and the more I understand it and build relationships on here the more I like it.
I have always had a hard time balancing my life. Hence the travel travel travel, work, work, work, and play, play, play.....very little balance. But I love to travel,I find it a healthy habit for me. For me to balance that with steemit now, is a challenge I am working on.
But I agree with you totally steemit is "amazing and fantastic". I wouldn't say that I'm trying to escape anything, I just have an addictive personality.....it throws me off, as I find myself getting addicted to steemit and the hours fly by. I love to be on steemit, and enjoy it very much.
The times I've gotten frustrated are the times I've steemed it too much! Then I'm like uggh where did all that time go, then I'm like well, at least I'm getting paid to be on here...then I see it's like 50 cents... (not anymore)....I'm like what am doing?
But I'm getting way way better at managing my time on here. And if I'm on here all day now....well I'm going to own that decision and be on here all day because that's what I want to do.
Balance brings peace, like you said. I'm very happy to have met you on here and I'll always keep in touch with you! Thanks for your friendship and more! -Dan
I'm curious about this. I've watched some interesting lectures about addiction, and I think we all have a lot to learn about it. Some think it's chemical based, but it does seem to be related to wanting to escape one reality and over-indulge in another. I also wonder if we'll ever understand the brain enough to really pinpoint how different brains may respond differently to pleasure and stimulation. All super interesting stuff.
I'm enjoying connecting wth you as well, Dan. I plan to travel much more in the future, hopefully with my family as well. Part of me, I realize, is scared of the unknown, scared of instability and uncertainty of travel... but I'm looking forward to it just the same. I enjoy your posts as part of that process.