Paying-it-forward

As many are aware, there are ‘activities’ on here that could be construed as a ‘war’. Flag-war as many refer to it. Regardless of what any of our opinions are on the subject matter, my message today is not about picking a side. It’s about saying thank you to those who have helped us along the way.

I came on here to meet people and learn about this Steemit platform. There is reward pool abuse. There is also kindness and generosity and a gathering of human spirit who shares in promoting positivity and goodwill. My point is to embrace this positivity and pay-it-forward.

I intend to send all SBD earnings from this post to @friendsofgondor as a gesture of appreciation to all the Stewards of the #stewardsofgondor that have upvoted and/or acknowledged any of us red fishes.

The Stewards delegated their SP to help build communities, and at this moment, their SP is lackluster at best. Nearly all have decided to keep their delegations in place to support their communities, i.e., newbies, homesteading, curation, etc. It is now our turn to pay-it-forward and give what small upvote we can to them. If you are not familiar with @friendsofgondor or #friendsofgondor, then please read @davemccoy’s reasoning for his Peaceful Way of helping to show our support for the #stewardsofgondor.

I've never liked to mention-tag, but I will do so on this one occasion only. Apologies ahead to the Stewards that may perceive this as a mention-spam.

Have your time here been positively influenced by meeting me or my teammates with Team BeeYOU? Have you had the pleasure of meeting @davemccoy and benefited in any way from your contact with him? Have you ever received an upvote from any of the Stewards listed below?

If the answer is YES, then we would appreciate an upvote on this post because we want to let @fulltimegeek know that every single person that voted on this post appreciate the support the Stewards have and still are giving to support our communities.

The Newbie Resteem Initiative is able to extend our reaches to newbies due to the generosity of the Stewards we’ve met thus far. It is because of the SP delegation from two amazing Stewards of the #stewardsofgondor (@abh12345 and @coolguy123, and indirectly from @fulltimegeek) that we’ve been able to help every newbie we’ve met.

We were able to establish the @newbieresteemday and @newbiegames accounts that make it possible to support our newbie community. Dave received SP delegations that enabled him to use the voting slider to spread his vote in the community. We should all be familiar with the ‘Newbie Nickel’ by now.

My goal is say thank you to all the Stewards that has, at one point or another, touched our lives here on Steemit.

NOW, to keep this post from being a SPAM or PANHANDLING post, I’ll share with you my journey here on to Steemit and some words of thanks. People do that, don’t they?

There are few occasions when I am passionate enough about a topic to write on. I’m not a blogger by nature. When a coworker first told me about Steemit, I said to him, “I don’t have time to blog.” It’s the truth. I have a life outside of Steemit. I have a stable career, a wonderful family, and good friends. I am blessed with good health and love from my family and friends. Steemit is NOT my source of income. I joke with @davemccoy all the time that I would love to earn enough from my posts one day to buy my daily cup of DD coffee.

The truth is, not many people stop by my blog. My earnings are dismal if you deduct the obvious ‘promotion’ services. The people that do stop by my blog are the friends I’ve made in my short time on here. I appreciate their love and support and they in return have my love and support. Also, since Team BeeYOU is a group account, we are excluded from ever hitting it big with curie@. So I write on here simply for the pleasure of writing.

Journey on Steemit

My journey on Steemit started when my coworker told me about this blogging platform. At the time, Bitcoin was at its peak value, and I couldn’t believe I had never heard of cryptocurrency before then. I was in my comfort world, my cozy life and didn’t care much for current events aside for ones that mattered to me. So I made the decision to stop sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich. I decided to learn about this new cryptocurrency world. At first, I started off by buying Steem cryptocurrency and planned to HODL. My investment doubled in a week so it was a smart investment.

When I researched this platform, I liked the fact one person could help to change someone else’s life on here. My penny vote combined with many others could mean a meal to someone in a third world country. My penny vote could mean a new laptop for someone who fell on hard times. My penny vote matters. Since my time on here is limited, I invested some of the Steem cryptocurrency I purchased and powered up so I could at least have a $0.01 upvote value to my name.

Rocky Start

So I started off on my Steemit journey in December, 2017. And I earned $0.00 to pennies on my posts. I soon came to realize that you have to be a part of a community on here to succeed. Steemit Life very much mirrors the real world. So I gave up with the idea of ‘steeming-it ' alone. My time on here is limited as it is, and no way could I succeed on my own. If anyone cares to find out about my account, it’s all there on steemd. You can see my pathetic earnings for yourself. There is no point of mentioning it because I’m not on there anymore. I lent the account to my coworker who loves to play sport contests, and delegated what small SP I built over to Team BeeYOU.

Team BeeYOU

I approached the team blogging concept for BeeYOU with some friends who are also working professionals with family. They too, don’t have time to blog. Some agreed to lurk, others told me they were simply too busy. Our team would have been badass if everyone I invited agreed to join. They are all smart individuals and well-established in their careers. I still think our team is awesome (hello Andy and Mello!) but we are all relatively new to cryptocurrency and Steemit. We are still understanding and learning this Steemit universe. We probably have 14+ years of college education between us, and 60+ years of work experience combined. Our knowledge of Steemit, however, is limited at the moment. Every day we learn something new and we grow along with the platform. Every day we make new friends and they stop by and share what upvote worth they have on our posts/comments.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE FRIENDS I'VE MADE ON HERE.

I stay on here not in hopes of ever becoming a dolphin or whale. The chances of that happening is slim to none. I stay because I’ve grown to love the people I’ve met on here (hello #newbieresteemday members!). People like @davemccoy with his endlessly polite and lengthy replies (yes, he can say a bad word now and then. I’ve witnessed it.) People like @mudcat36 who sent me a Valentine’s Day gift simply because he wanted to thank me for my time spent with the initiative. People like @amariespeaks who patiently listens to me ‘rant’ on Discord when I’m irked by something or another. People like @simplymike who sponsored a share for me with @steembasicincome, simply because she wants to show appreciation to the members of our initiative that may not be in the spotlight. I can go on with my teammates from the Newbie Resteem Initiative (@bashadow, @lynncoyle1,@gracefavour, @ilovepoorpeople and some of our newest members @malloryblythe, @seaslim, and @kismet2018.) There are so many other team members, that if I were to name them all, would take up this whole post! They’ve had a positive impact on my life here and I appreciate their friendship.

There are also individuals outside of our #newbieresteemday initiative that I admire and respect.

Asher (@abh12345) with his fabulous Curation leagues. He makes it a point to stop by our members’ blogs now and then to show his support. I appreciate the support he has shown me. He was the first Steward to support our #newbieresteemday community. He has continued his support to our initiative by delegating SP to @davemccoy, @bashadow, @lynncoyle1, and @themanwithnoname.

There is no way you miss knowing about @abh12345. If you've ever received an upvote from @bashadow, you will know in his comment that the upvote is made possible due to the delegation received from Asher. We all love @bashadow!

There is @coolguy123 with his SP delegation to the @newbieresteemday account, which allowed us to highlight some of our newbies in the community. Our upvote value may not pack a punch, but we strive to lift the spirits of our newbie authors and gather a bigger audience for them.

We’ve had some of our highlighted newbies selected by curie@. Imagine how incredible the feeling must have been to come online and see a big $70+ pending payout on their post.

There is @goldendawne with volunteering her time to mentor our newbie community.

There is also @danielsaori who partnered with our initiative to give our newbies a chance to learn about community engagement and the value of making quality “comments”.

Last, but not least, there is @inquiringtimes, whose support led to @davemccoy receiving a 500 SP delegation for a 90-day period.

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I may not have much time to spend on Steemit. It may take five minutes to five days to reply back to your comments (I’m sorry guys but I still love you!!), but I will scroll back through my ginabot messages and make sure I do reply back. Why? Because I appreciate every single person that took the time to type one character on their keyboard/phone to send me a message.

These are my words of thanks and appreciation to everyone that have provided friendship, guidance, and support to me here on Steemit.

Written by Paula from Team BeeYOU

Image Source: @seaslim

Image Source:

Rock Valentines, Ocean, Bee Affirmations & Bee Image, Beeing You.
Text Dividers from @doctorcrypto
My new beautiful BeeYou logo created by @seaslim.

OUR THANKS to the Stewards of the #stewardsofgondor

@fulltimegeek
@abh12345
@allseeingewe
@buddy67
@c0ff33a
@carey-page
@carlgnash
@cbanks
@cecicastor
@cheneats
@coolguy123
@cranium
@crimsonclad
@dakini5d
@davedickeyyall
@defango
@drakos
@earthmother
@einarkuusk
@fabiyamada
@flauwy
@frankbacon
@geekpowered
@goldendawne
@greenrun
@hendrix22
@hitmeasap
@howtostartablog
@inquiringtimes
@kryptokayden
@kubbyelizabeth
@leighstewy
@lifttheveil411
@lukebrn
@luming
@lyndsaybowes
@marxrab
@mikepm74
@old-guy-photos
@openmic
@orcheva
@originalsimulant
@quitefrankly
@realtreebivvy
@reko
@samiwhyte
@skycae
@somethinfishy
@spiritualmax
@taskmaster4450
@theuxyeti
@votovzla
@wisewoof
@yagoub