What Sets Apart The Really Great Steemians? – They Don’t Feel Entitled
Hello Friends!
Join me for my morning coffee as I hang out in a park and discuss the topic of gratitude. One thing that really strikes me about most of the top Steemians is that they seem to “get” the fact that every single vote is a gift. They also understand that success is not drawn in a linear line! There are a lot of ups and downs on the platform, and living from this mindset can really help you to stay more grounded.
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In this video I chat about what entitlement looks like on this platform and how by focusing on getting votes – you are actually not attracting the kind of supporters you want anyway! People can SMELL DESPERATE and they can often feel your intentions through your post.
Success on this platform does not happen overnight and it is often built one person at a time. By really focusing on feeling grateful for every single person who supports you with their vote or leaves an engaging comment on your blog, regardless of their steem power, you will slowly start to build your base of support. It will be truly authentic support as well because it is coming from people who are actually excited to support you. Also, I am not saying that every great Steemian has this kind of mindset – but many of them do.
The text in this post simply serves as a high level over view – please watch the video to get the full content from this post!
PS… I am filming outdoors and so excuse the plane overhead in part and the rooster crowing at another point. Seriously, the park I went to has a little community farm. It’s so cute!
I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I honestly think the sooner one can detach from any feeling of expectation – and just be grateful every day that someone decides to support them with a vote – the sooner they will see success on the platform.
If you have any thoughts or questions on this topic, please shoot them in the comments below!
Xo,Lea
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This is SO TRUE! I think one of the many reasons people are so drawn to you @coruscate is you are so positive and grateful. To be be humble as your success grows in such a graceful way is a very attractive quality in a human being. I’m predicting that by this time next year you will be in the top 50 most followed accounts on Steemit. Write that down!!!
@coruscate interesting your morning coffee. We need to create our own way.
Steemians great. I voted you.
That's good. It's all about supporting each other and appreciating one another or each other's work.
@wesakab thanks for take time for opinion, I am agree with you it's about supporting each other and enhance with feedback and positive readings.
Your welcome and thank you for appreciating :)
@wesakab it is really nice to have steemians friendly as you. We walks positvely!!!
Oh! Thanks. I will follow you.
Hello @wesabi you are welcome; is a pleasure to have you.
In a park with a coffee cup and it is not plastic? How?? Please tell me :-)
Great video and some really quality content.
I think the biggest thing to mention is patience.
Far too many people are not patient and give up after a few weeks because they do not earn thousands for every post.
Just checked out some of your other videos and LOVE your music videos especially the ring of fire, AWESOME!!
Do you take requests? Would love to hear Oasis - Whatever :-)
I upvoted this great video, I think it is only worth $2 at 100% but if I could upvote more I would.
Take care and look forward to more great content.
I totally agree with this. Spending all your time focusing on trying to get .001 Steem by asking for upvotes or spamming peoples comments, you're just pushing yourself away from where you actually want to end up.
Instead, putting that energy into making your posts have more depth, info, and resources, will be a much more satisfying (personally) and financially benificial endeavor.
Invest time into developing your voice and content on the platform and you will be SO much closer to achieving your Steemit goals. Like I tell people new to Steemit, be honest, open, and real, and you can carve out your own space in the Steemit world!
This is too true and something that many people (me included at times) don't think about. People feel entitled like you said, and they expect to see their success as something obvious and constantly increasing. But in reality success isn't always a straight line, and sometimes it will seem like you've backtracked. The most important thing is to not get discouraged and keep working towards your final goal though.
I must say that I feel often that I wont ever reach the success I want. I can blame my field (photography... It's a diluted one), and I can blame my skills and camera (when I see those hundreds of thousands of amazing photos online), but these excuses are something that we use just to justify a lack of visible success. But I think that there is much more going on behind the scenes... Maybe my last post got less upvotes than before, but other things happened too. I learnt more about taking photos, I tried something new maybe. But in the end I got more practice, and I think that even if the results are visible initially, they are there in some form.
It's hard to always remember this though. Sometimes it feels like there is no success or improvement at all. So thank you for writing this post! I feel a lot more motivated for today, and I will always try to remember this in the future when something doesn't work as well as I had wished.
Such a great video and post. I think that being grateful for anyone even reading a post regardless of their voting power is a huge blessing. It's a few minutes out of someone's day that they are taking to read words by you! Thanks for writing this article :)
Thanks for being grateful regardless of the steempower of the upvoters. I agree with comments about your right and positive attitude accelerated your growth in this platform. I am also grateful that I was chosen as one of the winners for your giveaway. It came as a surprise really. I can very often just give an upvote without a comment but you were able to always response to your commenters resulting in great engagement. I agree that there are genuine supporters but there are also many who made superficial comments hoping to gain an upvote from authors without quality comments and many may not even have read the articles. I guess I also must learn not to feel guilty for not upvoting these comments as I do have a habit of upvoting commenters as a token of appreciation even though it may not be much. Thanks for being who you are and will continue to support you. Hopefully I can become a bigger fish one day and support you in a slightly greater way!
@coruscate , today you are my antidote!
This is soooo true!!! Preach it Lea! :)
I touched the dark side, but i think i stick with steemit! :D