So last week I was excessively ruminating and this week I...
Oh shit, I might still be.
The whole week I have been repeating the same thought over in my mind. "Do something of value."
I wake up, go to work, go to gym and come home and open steem, whaleshares, discord, gmail and youtube. Mainly those.
When I was just getting interested in design and web I would spend hours just doing that, so I am well aware that I have grown extremely complacent and I know I procrastinate.
The phrase "Do something of value," has nothing to do with any of those.
I think it is more a question.
"What can I do that has value?"
The short answer is nothing in particular.
What is "Value"?
Obviously learning something, creating almost anything which then serves to provide experience. Skills and knowledge then is value.
Now I am what you would call a generic person. Someone with general knowledge and general ability to learn general things which allows me to generally speaking go about my day in a very general way.
Basically, I am the ideal commoner.
Regardless, my question still is: "What value?"
As mentioned above, knowledge and experience is valuable. Not in itself though. I can easily use the pursuit of knowledge to get over procrastination, I can use practise to gain more experience to keep my sense of complacency at bay.
I think it is maybe not so grandiose. It is quite simple in that value has to be; gain.
What can I do to gain, not the romanticised pursuit of knowledge but something tangible?
Money is the only tangible thing we have. That is the thing that can improve my personal conditions of existence and also affect how much I can change others.
Apart from killing them, obviously.
How much value do I need?
Maybe I can answer that simply by knowing how much value I currently get. What is my daily worth?
For that I will take my salary and miscellaneous:
Work per day : $11
Steem and Whaleshares: $1
Rough estimate if I were to post every day
Then I have projects that I get once in a while which almost always are in the range of 50% - 100% of what I earn monthly for a project which may last half a month.
Those I do not count.
So my worth is $12 a day based on a 26 day work month.
Ok, that settles it I need to create something that feels like $12 or more.
Ideally, it should be cold hard cash $12 or more but let's be realistic. I will stick with it feels like, the potential also counts.
Sure, potential is in the same grey-zone as learning and experience but it is a hell of a lot more goal orientated. To my mind at least.
I don't think I will finish the question with any concrete decisions. I think that anyone reading this can see the obvious path I need to follow, in fact it is so damn common it is not worth mentioning.
Maybe just maybe if I say it out loud or define it completely it will cease to exist. That might be crazy but to that I say:
I think if you are a person who gives of yourselves and work hard, you are automatically someone who is very hard on yourself - I know because I am like that. I think we must sometimes stand still and realize that we give way more value than we think. The sad thing about life is it does come down to money because we cannot survive without it and the fact that people who really add no value sometimes or most of the time gets so much more than you. But I guess we must not look at what others have, but be thankful for what we have bla bla bla
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Well if Justin can get the lead out of the steemit inc teams asses and dev the shit we need I don't see why steem wouldn't be at least 10 bucks since the inflation and liquidity is so shit if anyone actually needed any reasonable amount steem to say build a dapp he'd fuck the price right up, in turn doing the same to all the SE tokens.
99% of ETH, EOS and Tron Dapps are shit in any case, can we get a bit of that overvalue in this next run? lol
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I am powering down and maybe for once can take advantage of some sort of pump or manoeuvre. That would definitely increase my short term daily worth :)
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I'm so deep in the lease market right now I don't want to power down. The way I see it I still have a few more months abuse my stake and build so when the crazy prices do come my lease money can get sold pretty easily
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Maybe you should look at your value instead. Your daily worth is only based on what your employer says. I'd say you're way undervalued, and your employer is worthless.
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