A 24 Hour Comprehensive Review of Steemit. My thoughts, who influenced me to join & how my first post went!
Its been approximately 24 hours since I joined steamit, these are the thoughts and emotions I've been had since then. I'm sure you all can relate!
Since I'm a personal trainer, on the weekends I get the great pleasure of training my brothers girlfriend, Heather. I wake up in the morning, take the bus, and walk on over to their apartment. It's always exciting visiting these two, they are the epitome of a young millennial couple, and their apartment is to die for! Not only do I get a thrill from personal training, but I also like learning about the newest (or not so new) things that are all the rage. Thats why I LOVE my brother, Luis, in the last week it making a thousand dollars from @Cryptokittys to… “Hey you should post your content on this site that PAYS you for your content.”
Immediately after my session with Heather, I sat down with Luis as he briefly explained Steemit to me. He didn’t even really fully understand it, and we are both still learning. Excited out of my mind, I pounced on this opportunity and proceeded to sign up for an account. My mind was racing with all the possible opportunities that can arise from Steemit.
While thinking about putting in my basic information I was thinking to myself, “What is going to be my username? The same as my instagram account? But what if I just use my name? Should I use my entire name? Should I use the word fit in there so that everyone knows my niche is fitness? What if I don’t always post about fitness? Are people going to even like me? Will they read my stuff?” And that’s when the fear began to settle in. I felt my heart thumping, thinking to myself all the reasons why I shouldn’t make an account. Ugly thoughts like, "I’m just going to embarrass myself," "this isn’t going to work,” and "there isn’t a large fitness community” started arising. I put my phone down and looked out the window as I defeated myself, yet again.
Two minutes later, I’m feeling encouraged again and tired of being a Negative Nancy I said to hell with it. I picked up my phone and choose the name @paolajanefit. I got my email verification, and then I’m told I have to wait to get approved.
Somewhat frustrated I ask, “Seriously Luis, how long is this going to take?" Like it was his fault.
My patient brother tells me its going to be just a few hours. So I wait. And I am already thinking about my first post! What will I name it? What pictures will I use? All while refreshing my email.
A few hours pass by, nothing. A few more hours, still, a whopping heap of nothing. Then, the next day I wake up, sure that I will have my account, reload still nothing!
I text my brother, "What the hell Luis?! This sucks!!”
Nonetheless, I continued to wait. Believe it or not, a whole 48 hours passed by and I didn’t get a thing. Maybe this isn’t for me after all…I felt myself sinking into oblivion again.
Last night, (which was over 48 hours of waiting) I made the leap to just pay for an account with my litecoin (I paid around $35) and got my account set up. I wouldn’t have done that if I honestly didn’t feel like I didn’t have potential somewhere deep down inside. Somehow I found the courage to do this at this instant, and decided to never let myself slip into the fear of not being good enough. This pushed me to make a great intro post - which I feel like is doing great (I’m up around $12.00).
Honestly, all you have to do is believe in yourself because if you don’t…who is?
The answer to that is: no one!
After my first post I received so many warm welcomes, followers, and I even got resteemed by a blog called @welcoming! I feel like that gave me a push I needed! I learned what Dtube is, and I'm excited to post there too. I feel like I’m getting a nice little roll here and I would love to keep riding this rollercoaster. I went from feeling hopeful, to sad, to depressed, to the happiest person on Steemit!
The last 24 hours on Steemit have honestly been really exciting, I jumped out of bed this morning with a purpose. I just wanted to get up, look at everyones amazing content - get some more ideas, jot them down and just WRITE! I haven’t felt this excited in a long time! I mean, as I’m writing this I am already curating my next post in the back of my head.
Thank you all for the love on my last post, you guys have motivated me and lit a fire inside that I have been looking for! I would like to know,
-Did you guys feel this way within the first 24 hours of joining Steemit?
-How long did you guys have to wait to get your accounts approved?
Welcome to Steemit!
Hey there,
Thank you so much. Its comments like these that are keeping this community going :)
I can definitely relate to the need of constant refresh presses xD Nicely put!
Haha, oh man I abused my button.
Thank you!
Welcome to Steemit Beauty
Thank you Alex, you're great <3
I think I did feel something similar within the first week of signing up. I kind of stumbled upon Steemit and didn't really know what to expect. I think it probably took me a little longer than 24 hours to appreciate the implications of STEEM and Steemit.
The account approval only took a couple of hours for me. I think your account didn't get approved because (possibly?) you were using the same IP address to create your account that your brother used to make his account. Steemit will only pay the activation fee for 1 account per household (I think). There are cheaper ways to create secondary accounts, but you still have to pay the activation fee.
What a Roller Coaster, huh?!
And you know what? That makes a lot of sense!
Awesome post! I joined the community just now and I can already relate to a lot of what you wrote! It was frustrating to wait for that verification email. I got it after approximately 2 days :)
Thank you! I was impatient haha
Lol pretty similar experience with the waiting! Love all the gifs you added for more emphasis 😝steemit gets more fun as you go on with all the connections you make with everyone!
Haha, I think I may or may not have used one too many gifs!
Thank you for the advice steemit is already so much fun (so addicting, too!)
I just followed you, I've been wanting to take some pole lessons myself.
Oh yay!! You should definitely look into it ;) it’s soo addicting! I went to a class randomly
just for fun and now two years later.. it’s all about pole pole pole! 🙃 and never too many gifs haha I love using them myself
You have officially convinced me, and now I have an awesome blog to document it on ;D I will definitely tag you when I do this haha
Hahhahah 😁😁😁I’m so happy hehehhe my secret (ok maybe not so secret ) mission to convert more polers to play with! Let me know if you have any questions! My sister @karensuestudios and friends just got a home pole to play on yesterday... haha they are practicing right now 😁😁💪
Haha thats sooo awesome!! I think you got me hooked!
welcome! :) Excited for your steemit journey!
Thank you so much!!
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Welcome aboard! You have a great page!
Hey! Thank you so much I appreciate it