MY STEEM STORY

A Powerhousecreatives Initiative

Everyone has a story – and all our stories have something in common… we all started from nothing and knew nothing. People want to hear stories. They want to hear OUR stories — they want to know who we are, where we are from, what we are doing, who and what we love, what we have learnt and where we are going. People also want us to hear their story! Being a part of the Steem network is an individual journey for every single one of us and through this initiative we will share our stories not only with all who are already here – hopefully inspiring, guiding and informing them… but doing the same for everyone else in the world too. Through our stories we will prick the curiosity of those who have not yet arrived and illuminate and widen the already open doors to our one in a million blockchain.

We invite and encourage each and every one of you to participate and share your stories too! You can find the "how to" details at the end of this post.

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MY STEEM STORY -BY @mattsanthonyit

Where My Steem Journey Began

First of all I would like to apologise for joining this contest so late but I know it is better to join and share my story than to wink at everyone's else post and comment and let it passes me by. Please accept my apologies 🙏.
My steem Journey actually began 2017 to be precise, at that time I was not able to make things right to join fully because of two things. My thought was that steemit platform was part of those fraudulent website linked with cryptocurrency activities and also the number two main reason why I could not join fully was because of my wedding preparations which was close by at hand. My Junior ones @williams-owb , @mediahousent was actually on Steemit doing their posting activities and meeting more friends all over the world. I saw them all in happy mode most times so, I moved closer to ask what was the cause of the Joy they told me Steemit platform which actually turned out great and blessed through STEEM Cryptocurrency rewards cashing out. I spent several months mocking them because I know we had alot of people who act fast online fraudster. But as time goes on I opened an account then but I could not post at all. 2018 I did my first post and it came out very bad, lol 😀 because I saw few cents and later it grew up again. I made up my mind to stick to my Originality in posting and giving it two things again, my hardwork, Persistence and finally Patience. I stayed there and I grew so many friends which are still my friend uptill date. Although along the line I was caught up by the Steem EFCC crime security here due to the fact that I uploaded a photo without the source. I tried to explain but it went all the way. So, here I am appreciating the blockchain platform and everyone who has made my journey rough, tough and smooth 😉.

After my wedding ceremony and reception I took so many pictures and I uploaded them here on Steemit to show the reason why I could not make it up for posting and why I left for few weeks, so since then I have been positively engaged on Steemit for the growth and development of the community. Although, I realized that people were so scared to be proud of who they are here when I joined and also I noticed so many changes , people do not want to support Agriculture post at all even up till now, they believe it a very simple ideology task which can be perfectly performed by anyone. Hahaha. That's a big lie. I spent 8 years studying Agriculture in school , you can now imagine what we were doing that took so long and yet so many people do not appreciate but just in cases of Cryptocurrency post. It's awesome too but we need to change our minds set and collaborate with people trying to strive hard to be active on the blockchain platform for the best. Thanks to the @ocdb, @blocktrades, @rocky1, @appreciator, @upmewhale who has made it their daily work to curate as so many good creative Original content creators which I believe is the best way to move the blockchain platform to the top level in Cryptocurrency World rank. And also I can really see so many Whales who try to make it up to so many newbies and also people who created time for Steem positivity @theycallmedan, you are doing a great job , have not meet you in person but I have the courage to say I will definitely pretty soon. I can see so many people going into Agricultural related acticles and topics. Thanks for making way gradually, you will surely make it great.

My Initial Challenges And How I Overcame Them.

Before I joined Steemit, I had so many challenges with which would have sent me off the earth by now but here I am still living and learning more day by day. I lost my dad which actually broke my heart into pieces for so long, I could not withstand the gravity of me not having a father even while I was still in higher institution 200 Levels due to a drastic and a brutality of blood which I saw with my naked eyes when they assassinated my father in cold-blood just like an animal. He was shut by several times one bullet ran through his heart, one ran through the ribs,and also one through the middle chest region. It really weighed me down for so many years even up till now, it was so unlawful but it happened right infront of me and my siblings. I could not concentrate at all in school I had to dropped out for a while and stayed with my Mom crying all day all night but I was there to help her out and also when I stayed alone sometimes I do cry so much but not infront of my mom. That was my challenge at that time.

For Steemit. It was not easy at all like I said earlier people here do not recognize Agriculture as part of a leading articles, Topic, engagement at all. I stayed several times without any thing positive. You know what I mean, but I never stay idle for just one minute. I am a farmer and I love what I do and I came here to impact knowledge, Practical application to this Community and beyond so I found it so different and difficult to stay but I stayed. I continued with my farming activities and posting articles more also the other social media platform engagement which opened my eyes to see so many people's intelligent and knowledge to grow Steem platform really helped me out. I found myself talking to @papa-pepper for more way out and how to engage in more Creative knowledge. I further discussed slightly with @freedompoint on discord for more open awareness as well. Later I joined the decentralized visual platform which gave me the Way Out Adorable Creativity 💘in self-courage, self-power and self-confidence to go a long way in Creating Original video content.

My Steem Blockchain Knowledge

This question really took me a long time to comprehend at first because I have never heard of Steem before, I slight by chance and name heard of Bitcoin but I do not know how it works, or even come Into existence at all. For Steem, I saw so people recruiting others into the platform, so I joined as well. No basic knowledge what so ever I was totally a novice but I know it will definitely give me a positive feedback anytime soon which it did. To boost my Steem knowledge I sold my clothes, my shoes to attend the conference which held up at Abuja 2017 , it was a Steem Meet up and it was massive with great knowledge about cryptocurrency.

My Steem Favorites.

Yes everyone has it own best out of the best but as for me, I have alot of favorites which are vlogging. I do recommend this for everyone who want to overcome his/her Shynessless it really took me so long before I Overcame it but it worked, I can vlog while sleeping or even infront of Nigerian President or anywhere. I began to get along with it when I wanted to get my account verified sometimes ago, I told myself why can't I go on visual aspect and try it out. Then it worked for me. I was very shy but it took it off my life. I love vlogging, Photography, blogging as well.

But for me I prefer the beta.steemit front end, but before that came to existence I used more of @esteemapp by @good-karma but when I got my new phone it doesn't work well at all again but I have it still on my mobile phone. I used more of @steempress too by @fredrikaa and also @howo, I prefer switching to other steem interface when one get off work sometimes, so I use @steempeak and above all @appics .

All this steem interface are great with also the recent updates version for it. You guys are doing well and a great work.

My Golden Nugget Advice

I will start here by saying no knowledge is a waste, when you join the Steem Community you have nothing to lose unless you are a fake. When you get a chance to be notice grab it before it's too late. You need to creat more of Original content to get more audience, it may be post on food, Photography, travels, farming, games, cryptocurrency, insects, black-and-white photos, artistic talent and so on we have different Communities you can join to boost your work and knowledge. Morealso we have a new updated group of Communities the the #hive Initiative.

My Steem Hood And Its Peeps.

I was part of @powerhousecreatives in time past it was created by @jaynie and also @bdcommunity not officially but I will soon created by @zaku , @palnet Community and more.

But now, when I saw the new improvement in Communities I also joined the #fascinating insects founded by @jaki01, @project.hope @ocd, @curie, and more

In Conclusion

I hope you too will join this fun contest to know where you started your STEEM Journey from. I hope you enjoyed my story for far. It is awesome to join Communities on steem to promote your hardwork and to improve your Communication skills as well. Don't forget to vote for your STEEM witnesses as well. I will like to tag this five people to please make it snappy and join and also if by chance you are reading mine, feel free to join as well.

@matt-a
@therealwolf
@acidyo
@jaki01
@stephenkendal

I know the Steem interface will not be able to contain their words. Let hope to see them join soon.

HOW TO JOIN IN:

GENERAL INSTRUCTION:

1. Create a post titled: “My Steem Story – By @your.user.name”
2. The first three tags in order are to be as follows: hive-114105 powerhousecreatives mysteemstory
3. ONLY make use of the cover image provided in this post.
4. Keep the same formatting and placement (intro, footer instructions etc.)
5. Replace the personal photo with one of your own.
6. Tag 5 people to join in on the initiative.
7. Share your post to twitter.
8. Share your twitter link and Steem post link in the comments of @jaynie’s “Steem Story” post.

POST INSTRUCTION:

Write a post which shares and gives adequate response to the following headings:

Where my Steem Journey began

_{(How you first discovered Steem and your very first thoughts and impressions “as you landed”.)}

My initial challenges & how I overcame them

_{(Share a bit about the difficulties you faced at the beginning, whether it was navigation, post creation, engagement – whatever – how you resolved them and how differently you feel about it now)}

My Steem blockchain knowledge

_{(Give a little bit of background on your blockchain knowledge when you began your Steem journey versus now.)}

My Steem favourites

_{(What are the things you do mostly on the blockchain – is it blogging, vlogging? What front ends do you like to make use of and what content genre’s do you generally focus on?)}

My golden nugget advice

_{(What advice would you offer to those that are unfamiliar or new to this space)}

My Steem hood & its peeps

_{(Share a little about the communities you belong to, discord servers you frequent and perhaps a handful of the awesome people you follow)}