Overcoming Discouragement is one of the hurdles here in this platform, which affects most of the newcomers. Thank the Lord i have invited some of my friends and office mates to join Steemit. As i stated on one of my posts, quality and quantity can go a long way, but consistency and communication is the crucial points here in Steemit. They may see random nonsense posts with ludicrous amounts of upvotes, and in turn churning out an awesome length and good quality post gave them nil. So i advised them not to be disheartened but just still keep on making content.

All in all, i do not hold their fate. But i will always encourage anyone to press on and just keep on creating content, as long as they are enjoying what they are doing. :)

More power to you @papa-pepper and have a wonderful 2018! God bless you bro! ^u^