Real life rewards and down-voting deliberations

I've had a busy first quarter of the fiscal year, the financial year, so far with just the rest of September to go. [Our fiscal year runs July to June here in Australia]. The first two months have been hectic completely under control and very productive.

I've written a little over 35% of my annual budget in July and August alone. I should be sitting on around 17% of the annual figure at this stage so am very pleased considering I'm almost 100% ahead of my target figures. This can change in a month if I happen to have a slow one, however for now it's not time to contemplate that; It's time to celebrate [reward] my achievement.

Celebrating ones' success, in a manner and degree commensurate to the success, is highly important. It rewards the effort and provides a little focus to drive at for the next month and rest of the year. This is the same in business or in personal aspects of life. How do I reward myself for my early success? You're looking at it in this image. That's right, eggs, bacon, rye toast and coffee.

A little reward or ceremony to mark the successful completion of a task is important to remind oneself how beneficial the effort exerted in deploying the task was, and is, moving forward. I do this in all aspects of my life: Sport shooting, relationship goals with my wife, financial goals, personal development. Everything. Of course, as stated earlier, the reward needs to be balanced and commensurate to the achieved goal. No point rewarding myself with a trip to Paris after only two good months of results at work. A breakfast at a café is about right. Come the end of the year, and the attainment of my annual budget, exceeding it, a larger and more significant celebration will be appropriate. I even have it planned out - That's an important aspect of this ethos. Having something to aim at as a reward.

Speaking of rewards
You can see my laptop in front of me in this image, I had to move it well out of the way whilst I was eating in case I accidentally consumed it with my eggs. [Not really]. The scenery has changed on steem quite significantly I think, the introduction of free downvotes and the 50/50 reward split probably being the main drivers for that change - In my humble, uninitiated and probably clueless opinion anyway.

I had a Discord chat this morning with a fairly knowledgable, and respected, user who offered some direction on downvoting and I was appreciative. It was cool because I really am clueless when compared to most of those here - Lack of time is one of the reasons for that - Along with an IQ of only 13. So, thank you for that my man, much appreciated. [Unlikely that he'll read this post though]. I have purposely not tagged that person as I don't want to be that dude who tags bigger accounts for no apparent reason.

Downvoting doesn't feel right for most, however doing so has had a positive affect on the blockchain and whilst those receiving them might be disgruntled the greater community will benefit - And that's what we all want right? I understand that there's been some retaliatory downvoting which is human nature - We've been throwing sticks and stones at each other for a long time now...Fists, clubs, spears, arrows, swords, axes, bullets, hand grenades, RPG's, LAW's, bombs, missiles...You get the idea.

I've downvoted here and there using my quota and besides one questionable, poorly placed one, which my new friend [above] brought to my attention, I believe they have all been legitimate, valid and for the greater good. I've received some too...I mean even as adorable and engaging as I am I can't always please everyone, and nor do I want to.

The thing here is that the community can't let the heavy-hitters do all the heavy lifting; It's not fair and indeed, in my opinion, is weak. We all have a voice and must use it. We all have 2.5 complimentary downvotes and should be using them. If we did eventually they probably wouldn't be required.

One of the accounts I follow recently copped a few downvotes, those annoying ones that come for no reason out of nowhere. The account indicated to me it would stop posting and just ghost on steem. Naturally I said my piece then left it for that person to do what they wished. Happily their mind was changed and they're still around. Yay! That's what it's going to take. Persistence and lack of ego. Well done man.

So, this is a two-fold post. It talks about real life rewards which are important as stated plus rewards here on steem. Some downvotes cast now, by the collective, will benefit ALL down the track, even those receiving the downvotes now! How? Through a more solid steem and an increasing price! Sure, the pool-abusers can harvest steem in the greedy and egotistical manner they do, sell it for $0.40 on an exchange somewhere. But...Wouldn't it make more sense to support steem with a view to much greater gains for the future? #500dollarsteem

Each of us will do as we please, that's human nature, and it's even more prevalent when one has a computer screen and the interwebs to protect them. However there's implications to each action we take, now or in the future.

Thanks for reading - Time to go and curate some posts for @curangel

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