RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues 🏆 - STEEM prizes & steem-bounty available! 🎁
I wish I could say with confidence there was no stopping me, because I don't feel like my numbers reflect that, but I very much appreciate the kind words. I'm still plugging along here, trying to make a go, and I think in some part succeeding.
Congratulations to you for Zenning your way to No. 2. I think that's a new verb I just made up. :)
I'm still striving for the balance you've been getting closer to striking than I have. Sometimes it might not eem like that, but I think you are. The ongoing struggle, I find, is to continue to recognize things as they are. They are good. Could things be better? Of course. Could things be worse? You bet they could. So, we keep going, doing what we do, finding ways to contribute that makes us happy and fulfilled, and let the chips fall where they may, because what else can we do? And in the end, isn't that enough?
Good luck to you this week. :)
I like the idea of Zenning my way to number two @glenabrethsen. In fact, I like the idea of Zenning my way to anything. 😂
I'm glad you can see some balance that I am striking here. That's one of the positives of having fewer people around as far as I'm concerned. I definitely feel more relaxed about it than in the early days, that's for sure.
Whether or not it's worth the effort is still a question I haven't answered for myself. Right now it is because it's not stopping me doing other stuff I want/have to do. 😂
Just need to crack the late nights thing. It's three steps forward and two steps back with that one! 😂
Good luck to you too this week! 💙
Well, I don't know how much you have invested in STEEM, but if all your SP is through rewards, that's quite the feat in under seven months. That's not necessarily the only measure of success here, but it is definitely one of them. And with as many comments as you make each week, you're definitely getting out there, so people get to know who you are. And doing all of that coming in and out of things while you're doing what you want/need to do in the outside world is pretty amazing. I know you're not regularly writing 1000-plus word posts, but posting in the upper 20s each week is still amazing. So, Zen away, I say!
I suppose we all have to answer that question. I guess it depends on what you're expectations are and whether you're fulfilling them, getting closer to fulfilling them, or you see yourself able to fulfill them in the future. Do you?
Yeah, I've been staying up a little later than I want, too, but there's a bunch of folks who come online in the evening for me. I guess it would be early morning for you. So, I'm not sure what to do about that except to keep going or calling it a night. So far, I've kept going. :)
I've bought about 120 Steem @genalbrethsen, back in March.
I was going to buy some more when it went below $1 which of course it didn't do.
I'm at a point of reassessing this because I've realised this last week or so that my expectations were unrealistic as to the time it would take to build Steem Power.
And on that note I really must go to bed. I'm late again! 😁
Back in March. Okay. Still, that leaves a pretty good accumulation of SP from posting, commenting and curating, which I find amazing. Well done. :)
I haven't done exhaustive research, but it only stands to reason that no one here has made whale status (500,000 SP) simply by posting and curating on Steemit. The payouts would need to be extraordinary to get there in two years. Let's say someone pumped out 25 posts a week. They would need more than $192 SBD/SP netted each post to get there by now. To be an orca you factor down by ten to $19.20, which is still rather ambitious, but possible. Maybe there are a few of the Steemit made orcas floating around.
In reality, though, the vast majority of those who have been working for the last two years here aren't going to be much more than mid-sized dolphins. And because retention is lousy, the number of those still hanging around are going to be dwarfed by the potential dolphins there could be now if they'd found their community, hung around and worked away.
So, in my case, I've been doing reassessments on a regular basis, and it's been helpful. Step by step and little by little, we get there. If we stop though, we don't. It might not be quite that simple, but it's not that far off.