SYNCHRONIZING STEEMIT WITH MY DAY JOB - THE AGONY OF A STEEMIAN NIGERIAN

in #promo-steem7 years ago

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Thinking in my sitting room


You are welcome to my blog. Today I wanna talk about the challenges of meeting up with our daily Steemit targets, our obligations to a program we hold dear in the face of our daily job. And i will be badly needing your most logical input into this subject matter because, as i write, I appear to be at a crossroad - whether to do away with my business and face Steemit or continue to make do with both concurrently. This is a hard decision I am currently battling with.
Is it possible? Can one actually achieve self imposed targets in Steemit without abdication of responsibilities at work, and still get medically recommended minimum 9 hours of daily sleep?
You understand my point. At times, you are passionate about a cause, a program - just anything you hold in high esteem (in this case, Steemit). You wanna set the pace. You wanna leave lasting footprint and be a shinning example like such Steemit success stories as @infovore, @gavvet, @donkeypong, @curie, @hendrikdegrote, @anwenbaumeister, @stellabelle, @surppassinggoogle, @hanshotfirst, @dragonslayer109, among other great Steemians. You really wanna be counted in the event of Steemit census of "who is who".
You badly wanna meet up. You wanna establish your presence and let Steemians know that you have arrived. You really Wanna achieve a worthwhile goal!
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And then something you have less regards for...maybe your day job - just anything - seems to be taking much of your time! Damn! The question is what will you do? What's your opinion for someone like myself who is facing such challenges. To those of you Steemit shinning stars and upcoming ones; how were you able to achieve so much? Were you keeping your jobs while you perform Steemit activities or were you jobless at the time of signing up?
My quest to receive an answer to this puzzling question had led me to chat up @oluwoleolaide on whatsaap, seeking his opinion, asking how he has been meeting up with daily blog post. He's such a good blogger; highly motivated. At times, he makes 3 rich blog posts in a day. When I can barely make one post in 3 days. I wanted to find out his secrets; whether Steemit is the only thing he does. But it wasn't. He works and still blog. Awesome personality. Isn't it?
It is to my personal credit that I discovered Steemit by accident on my own; no one referred me here. I signed up and forgot the account until early July. I stumbled on it again; read about the program FAQ and much later the white paper and fell in love with it.
Out of my love for Steemit and despite being relatively new and so not knowing much, I created a whatsaap group known as #EURONATION STEEMIANS. I invited my whatsaap contacts for a whatsaap-based webinar presentation on Steemit opportunity. And 67 people instantly signed up thereafter. Today, we have increased to 105 members with over 30 accounts being very active. This step goes to authenticate my profound love for Steemit. See the image below...
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In #EURONATION, we neither have fat Steem Power (SP) holdings nor a dolphin in our midst. We are all in redfish category. However, we are highly motivated. Our passion keeps us moving. Notable members such as myself - @eurogee, @smyle, @⁨Dray91⁩, @sweetestglo-eu, @honourmaus, and @⁨dante31⁩, have won various contests. These feats within these short span goes to show our level of commitment to Steemit program.
We have received and continue to receive immense support from the 5 Nigerian curators namely @gbenga, @ehiboss, @destinysaid, @ogoowinner and @fisteganos. Others include @surppassinggoogle, @maryfavor, @infovore, @curie, @hanshotfirst, @oluwoleolaide, lots of them. Awesome Steemians. They continue to proffer advices on the way foward to us. To this, we appreciate in no small measure.
All these factors and personalities are my sources of immense motivation; yet my business, which has been my basic source of income, seems to be drawing me back. All attempts to combine them, seem to place my health on the receiving end. Should I go with @oluwoleolaide's advice, a move I think will undermine my health, or summon courage and call it a day with my business?
This is my Agony.
Dear Steemians... Your logical views on this issue will be most appreciated. Thanks for reading.
Yours Naija Boi, @eurogee
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Sighs.... I don't know from which angle to take this. It is really tough on you, and you have also mirrored my own frustration, my dilemma concerning this steemit stuff. Where is the time? And what do I do to create time?, without which one will not be able to realise One's full potentials on this platform. Well, my candid advice is this: keep your regular job for now , be ready for the stress that will come with it , knowing that doggedness will crown your efforts with success in the long run. Know when to take it really slow by listening to your health indicators . Most importantly, apply wisdom in execution of these tasks. By God's grace, we will all get there one day.

Insightful and meaningful. Keeping this to my heart. Thanks

Thanks for bringing this up
Am actually in the same shoe with you , more reason I didn't post any article for almost 5 days now and I decided to take off for a week.
Combination of blogging and other work activities has been hard on me
I sleep barely 5hours a day in the last couple of weeks because I have to go to work in the morning , come late in the evening and I still want to perform some other activities and still get a good article posted
Am not giving up because I know someone was in a harder situation than I am and survived it.
My pure advice is not to stop STEEMIT and not to stop your business
You can combine the two in a logical way and succeed in both
Its just planning and setting priorities
Yes you can
Yes you can do it sir !!!

Thanks man. You're such a great motivation

My Advice,

This voice of yours is a voice of a determined soul, if not, it wouldn't be sounding this loud, first and foremost, STEEMIT worth been committed too, and at the same time, if reward on steemit are compared to what you earn working for a particular firm, I bet you, you'll want to quit and shot the door off.

You are a courageous and determined leader of Euronation, even though, everyone writes articles that are not fat fetch as we all's hope it'll fetch, should I say time will tell or abnormalities should be corrected?

I strongly hope and pray abnormalities would be corrected sooner than later.

NB: A Popular Icon on steemit told me barely less than 24hrs that; “will you let steemit work you out, or will you work something out of steemit?” this is a question I was unable to answer before he said to me that honourmaus, imagine if steemit is never in existence.

As you want to make a big difference, I also want to make a notable one too

WE WILL BE SURPRISED SOON

LET'S KEEP FIGHTING

I BELIEVE BETTER DAYS AHEAD.

I'm @honourmaus Your boy in #EURONATION

Thank you very much my brother and worthy Steemian @honourmaus. This advice is in order.

Steem-On brother, never despair.

I had overcome the days of thinking of Taking Steemit as my full job and ditch my real life work as a Business Development executive and as a Co-founder of an IT firm.

Thanks for your support. You such an inspiration Boss

Most welcome brother

I feel your pains. I wont advixe you to forego any, just find a way to balance both.. I know you will still come out strong no matter what, cause your intelligence surpass it all. Steem on boss. The sky is just a stepping stone.

Thanks. Will look into it

It's not really easy. Because the country is not helping matters. We don't have a choice to stick on something that we can earn from by maximizing our potentials. We will get there gradually. Thanks to you for supporting us all this while. I use to think that steemit.com is the only thing you do for the day.

The country itself has been run aground. Thanks very much.

You have just nailed the problem a lot of Steemians struggle with including me. The best approach is to strike a balance between the two. Each should be seen as supporting or complementing the other in the light of the volatility of Steemit earnings. Some posts do so well while some may not especially when one is not a whale yet. For me, the key word is BALANCE!

Indeed, lots of Steemians face similar issue. Thanks for landing a voice

Its not really that easy to decide but my opinion is do not quit your permanent job for now till you have been making consistent revenue with this community and Stay clear of the lure to do anything you could later be sorry for.

@chidiebere... Hahahaaaa thanks for your opinion. However, '...being sorry for...'as used here means failure in Steemit. No way. Not acceptable

Just a few things can be said about all this.

Patience

&

Priorities

Before learning how to run, first learn how to walk.

We all are learning.

Its not easy pulling out posts day in day out, but if its sucking all the fun out of you, then is it worthwhile? Relax, post, be smart.

Thats all sir @eurogee, thats the advice from the top itself, not me or any curator.

This is rich and succinct. Thanks Boss.

Nicaragua....aqua for my bunghole.....arriba...

To me you're a success story, you have produced hard-working steemians and you're indeed an awesome person who carries everyone along, I will advise you to set your priorites , scale of preference but never give up on steemit, a time will come when you can sideline your business and face steemit. But for now keep on pushing boss, Again listen to your health and know when to take a breather.

@sweetestglo-eu...Yours is among the best advice I have ever had in this discourse. It goes to show your a thorough bred psychologist. I appreciate this. Thanks very much

Don't mention boss.. Lol thanks for the compliment
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