It's a lazy Sunday morning around the Curator Cat mousehole household and everyone is actively engaged in the process... of pretty much nothing.

We cats are really good at that sort of thing!

Exhibit A: Sleeping Curator Cat

But we can't always sleep our way through life, so I'm pulling out my "Philosopher Cat" hat for a few moments to consider the importance of perseverance. 

Inspired in part by @anomadsoul's post from a few days ago, I realized that my own post feed as of late has been a bit "thin." Quite a few of the people I've been following for a while have just... stopped.

Now, I know it's summertime and a lot of people go on holidays, and that's pretty understandable... but most school breaks are either over, or the kids start back tomorrow so that excuse no longer holds. 

Exhibit B: Sleeping BeBe

The reason most people give for not being active anymore is typically "the low price of Steem." Which means — I grant you — that rewards are also lower. 

What I find so strange about that particular line of reasoning is that people get zero for creating content anywhere else. 

So what you are really trying to say is that you like Steemit when you're getting $1.00 for posting here, instead of zero for posting elsewhere, but when you're getting $0.50 for posting here vs. (still) zero posting elsewhere... you'd rather be "elsewhere" posting for zero?

Please read that sentence again, and explain the logic to me!

Because I can guarantee you that Facebook and Instagram didn't magically grow unicorn horns and a crypto wallet in your absence! 

And yet, people are still going away. Even @barrydutton — one of Steemit's absolutely most prolific posters and "inventor" of the "show me your Facebook wallet!" weekly posts — mysteriously dropped off the map about a month ago, after having posted more than thirty thousand times.

Unless he knows something I don't, seems he has fallen victim to the times, even though he was one of the many who remained very active during the infamous period of "Seven Cent Steem" many talk about (before my time).

One of my Humans was a business consultant in an earlier part of his life, and specialized in helping those who wanted to break out of corporate jobs and into self-employment.

He has always observed that most businesses fail NOT because they were a "bad idea" or had "poor management," but because their principals "quit before they became successful."

Now we live in a more and more "instant gratification" oriented world, so people have less and less patience. That also means that the time between the expectation of success and the reality of success is getting shorter and shorter.

Exhibit D: Sleeping in the "Pink Room"

And yet? Reality hasn't changed. A week is still seven days, and a year is still 365 days. 

That leaves YOU as the remaining variable. 

Is your choice going to be to stick with it till you succeed? Or are you going to quit before you can succeed?

If you need a little more inspiration — as well as a great community of Steemians committed to being active — go check out and enroll yourself in @abh12345's weekly "Curation and Engagement Leagues!" There have been times when I have felt like throwing in the towel, but wanting to "place well" in the leagues was enough inspiration to keep me from doing so. 

It might make a difference for you, too!

Now go out there and have a beautiful Sunday!

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