Sometimes I get greedy.
Because I am working my ass off on here, writing a shit ton of stuff, thinking up ways I can contribute to this amazing space and I am not seeing it come back that much in the form of financial reward.
And then I get this feeling I need to be doing better, writing way more and write about different topics. Topics that I basically have NO idea about.
And then my head thinks of so-called successful people online who I could ‘copy’ and then translate into my own version of things.
Which is just COMPLETELY ridiculous.
My brain goes into overdrive and really starts trying to make me have a certain ‘look’, a certain way of talking or even what I am going to talk about.
None of which is TRULY me.
And then I get a wake up call from myself and say ‘Ash, what are you doing???’
And I snap out of it.
Because I know that if I were to copy someone else’s words, ideas, whole damn persona, it’s not going to make me happy, and it sure as hell won’t really make an impact on this Steemit world because y’all would see RIGHT through me. Right? My lovely intuitive beautiful gems of Steemit.
It’s a simple case of coming back into old energy patterns of thinking.
Thoughts like how I NEED to make ‘it’ and how it HAS to happen AS FAST AS FUCKING POSSIBLE.
Which really is not a very loving way of being present with it. Is it?
And this is NOT the way I am going to do things on here.
Or in the rest of my life.
I am here to be present.
I am here to be authentic.
I am here to be real.
And this post is a part of that.
To show how my mind can get greedy as fuck and want to MAKE IT BIG ON STEEMIT.
Which is utter nonsense.
The only thing I can do is show up, be present and give it my all, in all of my rawness.
And that is WAY enough.
And this relates back to our society.
We are somehow forced to act and think all the same yet we revere those that are their true authentic self.
Well I say a fuck you to all of that.
And I am just going to let my real self freak flag fly!
Pic at the top made by me in Canva with illustrations from Pixabay.com
BIG love,
Ashley
Made by the wonderful @stellabelle
Make it fly girl. @ashleykalila To be a real self is a hard work but it pays later in the day.
@seyiodus
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I truly believe that! :)
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Ik hou van mijn hersenkronkels ;) en de rewards trek ik mij geen fluit van aan, beetje dezelfde gedachte als u (allee in zo ver dat ik het beetje begrijp), just have fun, schrijven en mijn skills laten groeien, en groot gelijk, uzelf zijn is het beste. bless you
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Zeker!
Hersenkronkels.... zo'n heerlijke woord!
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dank u, is blijkbaar vlaams (wist ik zelf niet), is de naam van mijn blog nu, hahaha op een rare, heerlijke manier is het dat geworden, ik hou van de hersentjes, is het enige dat heel mooi is aan mij hahaha grapje ;)
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It takes 12-36 months on average for social influencers to become influencers. New Steemians would be better of if the rewards weren't shown until available to be claimed. :D
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Hehe
Maybe.
I quite like seeing the numbers though.
It's more a mind-energy thing.
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We call them vanity metrics. Recently they have more and more become the subject of studies and research into whether social media, and its inherent hunt for likes, negatively impacts our health. Because they can become an obsession.
I wouldn't do away with stats (views, resteem stats even ripples for resteems) but I would hide the rewards. It would also make curation more social and less of a hunt for rewards.
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Maybe add a suggestion to #utopian-io? :)
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No. Not yet required. I do keep up with most new researches tho. It's still a very young topic, and issue, but one important to keep track of as social media/Internet absolutely can contribute to children and adolescents. Negatively too apparently. Yet, for many too late already sadly enough.
There is not much available yet and of course there's plenty of rebuffing, but expect much more studies to come to the fore in years to follow. I myself, I make a distinction between vanity metrics and influence.
Also: Utopian is not the Steemit production kitchen. Steem Inc are the ones deciding over that. Witnesses decide over the Steem blockchain.
Utopian is a general platform for open source contributors, which currently is very Steem meta, yet we can still contribute lots just by using our own blog/Steem platform of choice. Unless, of course, that Utopian bot is what one is after.
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good info
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heheh nice dear
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I understand the little journey your mind goes on and good for you for resisting posting garbage! Use this platform for your own creative challenge and growth.
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Precisely.
Oh how the mind can try and deceive us right? hehe
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I am here to be part of history! ;)
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