You need to stop thinking that Steemit is some sort of "get rich quick" scheme. If it was that easy to get rich of 4 posts then we would all be rich by now. Stop looking at you wallet to determine your success on steemit it's just one of the factors.

• Build Relationships
• Create awesome content
• Resonate yourself with the community
• gather a following
• DONT BEG FOR UPVOTES OR MAKE USELESS REPLIES

I know people tend to look at the trending page and see steemians pulling $1000 per post, just know that for every 1 of those posts there are literally 100's of zero value posts, and most of "whales" get their upvotes from upvote bots setup to gain curation rewards so they can even upload the dummest shit and still get over 100 votes becuase people expect the content to be good. Just keep posting interesting stuff and you'll be fine.