Working Towards Your Steem Goals - Manhandling Depression (Steempression)

I wrote about the emotions that you will encounter in your ways towards your Steem goals or goals in general 2 days ago which you can read HERE.

However, @luming wrote that I forgot one of the most dangerous feelings which is depression. Since I had depression for 13 years I know how it feels like and I need to address that feeling with today's post.

Wanting to reach your Steem goals is a long and frustrating journey even when you get money for your posts. It will be super frustrating when you start with 0 investment because you will get basically 0 attention when you start.

This post is not written to address depression in general but depression resulting from the combined feelings of frustration, boredom, and uncertainty that you get here from Steem when you put all your time and hope into this Cryptocurrency. But you are now here to deal with these problems like a real killer.

How to Prevent "Steem Depression"

1. Don't post all your stuff here on Steem only. You can prevent Steem depression by sharing the content of your posts on other websites as well. I, for example, share the video content of my Steem blog on Youtube (I will later copy & paste my entire Steem blog on my own domain).

Like that you don't have to worry about Steemit going offline because all your content will be saved and you will have your audience on the other websites as well.

2. Dealing with uncertainty. You don't need to be uncertain because first of all, you don't need to worry about Steem going down because you are sharing your content on other websites as well.

Secondly, you don't need to be uncertain when you have made a decision to reach your goal. If you put all your effort into Steem till you reach your goal then you will reach your goal with 100 certainty. It is that simple.

3. Frustration is just a part of Steem, the currency itself goes up and down and you can do nothing about it. See where I am pointing at? You have to accept it when you can not change it. It is like taxes, you hate them but you can't change it so it is better for you to accept it.

Many things here on Steem are out of your control. The amount of value you receive from upvotes, how often your content is resteemed and so on. You do better accepting the things here on Steem that you can't change.

4. And last but not least boredom. Boredom stems from doing the same thing over and over again. This is why I fucking laugh about the quote by Steve Jobs "Do what you love". Do you think I fucking love Steem after doing the same shit every day for 60 days?

No, I fucking don't. Every real master would laugh and spit on such stupid advice. Every real master knows that you start to make progress when you get bored. Everyone's threshold for boredom is different but it means that you have reached your "fun-limit". Pushing past that feeling of boredom created many masters in the history of humanity.

5. Network with other people on Discord to create work together and to have fun. This will help you to deal with the boredom of posting every damn day and it is a great way to network.

Preventing Steempression in a Nutshell:

1. Don't post your stuff on Steem only
2. You will reach your goal as long as you work towards the finish line.
3. Accept the downsides of Steem, you can't change them
4. Overcoming boredom is an integral part of mastering something & yourself.
5. Network with others to have fun & work together

 
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