This week can be filed under one of the craziest weeks on the Steem blockchain for me.
I have been here for a while (Since July 2016) and saw some crazy shit but this week is right up there.
Steem went up and down like a rollercoaster making my portfolio swing with tens of thousands of dollars.
An insane amount. And hard to comprehend at times for me.
Then SBD went up to $12 making the payouts of everyone that blogs on Steemit so much higher. (And still, it's hovering around $9)
And amidst all that chaos we ( @blockbrothers) were in the clinch with Apple trying to get our app Steemify approved.
All in one week!
Great success!
But we succeeded and Apple approved the app late last night!
I was already sleeping when our developer @bennierex got the good news at 1 am.
He was ecstatic on our private channel and I missed it! I'm getting too old...lol
But when I saw the message in the morning I jumped out of bed straight away. The other guys were already awake to ( @s3rg3 and @eqko).
The whole day we have been busy launching our app Steemify.
Here you can see it in the App Store. It's real!
Now, It's Saturday evening and @eqko, the guy in the picture, just left for home where he will help his wife make her first post for Steemit. (slowly they are all converted, lol)
But first, we had some pizza and beers to celebrate today! (Something you should always do when you encounter success IMHO.)
Already we have over a hundred downloads in the App Store and it's climbing.
That's pretty successful in my book! We are very happy.
But it wasn't easy. The app bounced 3 times before it got approved.
Apple runs a tight ship when it comes to apps. Which is great for the end user but sometimes tough for the developers.
If you want to give the app a go you can grab it here:
I'm so glad the app is finally done. But we can't rest now. Going up the witness list is a tough cookie and you can't sit still. We are already working on something new.
But not tonight...no...tonight we celebrate!
I have recently become a witness with our developer group blockbrothers for the Steem blockchain. If you want to support us I would appreciate your vote here.
Good work man! I hear ya on the account moving 10's of thousands....mine was doing the exact same thing. Lol..it was scary to look at because it was worse ever five seconds. Congrats on the approval of your new app, I'm gonna check it out myself. Have a good weekend.
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Yeah! It's a rollercoaster for sure! I hope you like the app and consider us ( @blockbrothers) for a witness vote.
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I will vote for you for witness. I have a couple of spots open.
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Thanks, man!
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Wow! Great work the past months fellow dutchman!
Can't imagine what it would be like to see your money fluctuate that much!! I am just here for 3 days now, trying to see if my photography would be appropriated! Sko far so good I guess. If you ever have free time on your hands I would love to talk about your steem experience. Just one hour by train from Amsterdam, so that's a minor investment in order to maybe learn a lot! Congratulations on your app approval! Have been working for an app developer myself last year and I know what a trouble Apple can give you!
Keep it up!
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Good stuff my brother
🎊 🎉 Celebrate achievement has always had a stepping stone.
I will check the app.
Keep on steemit.
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Let me know what you think! And thanks, man!
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Congratulations on such a successful week. In many ways it's been a great week for everyone here on Steemit and your app launch has made things a little bit better for all of us so thank you. I've already been using it and it's helped me gain some insights into things I wouldn't otherwise see such as people starting to follow/unfollow me
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Thank you! I'm glad the app is working for you!
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100% upvote. Steemify is cool.
Now I know you track Bitcoin price... we all have to...
I predict Bitcoin will be $25,000 USD by March 2018 and I explained a lot of why this keeps happening on my blog... please swing by and see if I make any sense to you. :)
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Thanks! And of course, I look at BTC price!
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I don't know what to say. I just checked and you haven't even seen my blog (by vote or comment).
I'm starting to see you as a steemit celebrity now.. Are you a steemit celebrity?
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Nice work on the app guys. The interface is very good. It also works smooth without any lag.
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Thank you! Glad you like it!
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Wish you good luck for Steemify...Hope Steemify rocks just like SBD at the moment.
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thanks, man!
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Yep. One of the downloaders (as promised!). Spent ages putting my follow list in and am now all set up!
Also used the market for the first time to trade to get some Steem and then steempower. Looking forward to my up arrow actually doing something one day!
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Fantastic! I hope you like the app as much as I do.
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It’s so useful. I like to know what’s going on easily, and now I do!
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I also think your app approval may have received a boost in its acceptance. The newfound image of another outlet for creators via the Steemit network may have helped a bit too.
Holding my fingers and twos crossed for the upcoming release of an Android equivalent.
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Excellent post my friend, many congratulations for the approval of app and i am so glad to see Steemify app is in the apple store for free download and that's fantastic achievement in such short spade of time, well it is a craziest week indeed in cyrpto world honestly i never see such huge pumps in cryptos before but this past week it's just crazy every day we able to see a big green line in charts and it's good for all coin holder's and bloggers, i have a question my android device not working properly so in the mean time i am using playstore apps on my laptop with the help of bluestacks, is there a way available to install steemify app on my laptop from apple store, if yes then let me know, wish you a fantastic weekend ahead! my friend, Stay blessed
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Thanks for the app! Worx nice and I like to See all comments and new posts on top of my screen!
Well done!!
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Fantastic! Thanks for your comment.
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Right now straight away heading to the app store
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Cool! Let me know what you think!
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@exyle,
I could imagine how your account looks like! With 500 SP account I also feel awesome, and I could imagine how you feel about it! As you said before we should keep our faith on this block chain! Steem supply is little high, otherwise everything is okay to bring this Block Chain to the next level! But SBD got that potential, with it's less supply it can reach higher!
At the end I wish great luck for your Block Brothers projects! Those are absolutely a brilliant work!
Cheers~
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First of all congrats man on the approval of the app ...Can't wait to get it on Android :)
Hope you get the best response ;)
and i have not been that long in steemit but i loved this week and indeed had some fun with the price hike ..
I am loving Steemit !
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Congratulations! You guys worked hard for your success. Enjoy it!
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Lol crazy shit is about right @exyle what a week it must of been for you guys and congrts of getting the app approved by apple good job and let the conversions continue lol.
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Thanks you so much for the app! It’s helps me to on top of my notifications and new post from others! I wish you the bes of lucks!
5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️rating
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Sweet! Great to read you like it so much!
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Brilliant!!! I am really happy to hear this news. Steem on Buddy. Congrats!!!!!
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right
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Thanks, man!
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Wow this is awesome cant wait to share the app with friends. You had many great contribution @exyle and been reading your posts. Just voted @blockbrothers as a witness. Cheers!
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Thanks for your vote! And I hope you enjoy this app!
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Upvoted! sounds like a real intense and crazy week indeed, like your celebration with Pizza! all the best to with your projects, will keep an eye out fellow Dutchie.
I blog about traveling and just starting to get fimiliar with all Crypto and Blockchain has to offer.
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Today my friend was a good day! What a wave to ride!
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Congratulation. This is only a beginning for you. And yes, it was crazy week on Steemit. We can expect next year to be best year:).
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I think 2018 will be fantastic for STEEM.
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So @exyle - advise me please.
I have been buying my way down this slope for days now. I have a lot of cheap STEEM now. I was setting orders and they just filled as the price dropped.
So now I'm thinking I should take some of that STEEM and sell my way back up? Like set sell at .40, .50, .60 etc up to some large number. Then when (if) the sbd price stabilizes - won't I make money again on the way up? Or am I thinking wrong?
I already went from value of $300 to about $750 in the last days or however long this has been going on.
2+ of your free faucet STEEMS are in this big pile I'm sitting on. I am forever grateful to you and I'm going to go get what's in there soon again.
I'm so glad you are doing so well. This is wonderful to see. I don't use a phone so you will have to app without me, but I know you will succeed.
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The account value is based on a Steem price average of 3.5 days. STEEM went up so much this week and that's why your account value went up so much these last days.
You did well buy STEEM with SBD. I have done the same. The price of STEEM did not drop btw....the price of SBD went up 10x so that's why it feels that STEEM was cheaper while it was not in USD.
You can indeed buy back sbd when it drops back and then you have more SBD then you had before. Me, I'm keeping the STEEM I bought. I think it's a dream come through being able to buy more STEEM with these SBD prices.
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Well, for me - I'm thinking increasing the value of my account is important. So I have like 150 STEEM now and I would only sell maybe 30-40.
Will you keep buying STEEM all the way back up to $1 assuming that's how we go? Should I only sell over a dollar? My average cost is probably about 20 cents for what I have now. So If I sold at .40, wouldn't that double the money again?
This is all "free" money so to speak, if you count my labor for it's usual zero :)
I'm also completely stuck in here, so I was going to use some of this bonanza to open a few wallets so I can at least get money out if I ever want to. Steemit is my first entry to crypto and I have just been ignoring the money side until now for the mot part. I have just tried to maximize rewards over time, but there was not enough to even think of using some until now.
My son has a wallet and I transferred $25 sbd to him a few months ago but it is stuck in his coinbase wallet for whatever his problem is. It's in btc, so maybe he is rich by now. Then I transferred some SBD to @mariannewest and she converted to USD and drove it over to my kid since she is in the same city. That was a very successful transfer but not scale-able :)
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Congratulations again.
One day soon, @blockbrothers will be as common a term on steemit as @ned. :-)
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LOL! Wouldn't that be something!
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downloaded ! GREat work. keep it up :)And what a great week indeed
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Enjoy the app!
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I downloaded the app, and I really like it.
As much as I like it as a complete newbie here, I can see how it will be really handy down the road as I connect with more people on steem. Great work!
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I hope you will get this notification on your phone! and Thanks!
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I did! This is gonna be such a great tool for building relationships on here, I can already see that. I hope everyone goes and gets this app. Thanks again!
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congrats.. I believe it's strange to see the amount in $ when you have so much SP... better don't look to often... I think I cannot sleep if I had that amount...
YES you are in the apple store.. i can imagine it was hard... as soon as they hear the word crypto they are cautious...
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Thank you and they did ask us if it was possible to buy crypto in the app :)
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Yeahh I guessed that.. now hoping that it will stay there a long time.. the power they have is huge.. but you managed to get into the store.. I hope you consider a witness vote for me some day. THX
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Yes the prices are really crazy. Steem and Bitcoin. Lets c what happens in the next days.
I have a small question. Can I change the Steem dollars to Steem at anytime or I should wait for the right moment?
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https://steemit.com/market here you can do it anytime you want.
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Ah that was helpful, thank you. I am new here and didnt have the courage yet to try the market, but I guess it is time :)
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This is great news! I have been excited to try it out!
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Awesome! Let me know what you think!
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Steemify is an awesome project.
Wish you big success with this, hope you get rewarded the way you deserve it.
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thank you!
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Great that you made it to the App Store. Not easy to achieve, I heard other stories.
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It was tough indeed.
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This is great to see success and hope here, on Steemit. Thank you for bringing them along with the encouragement for beginners. For this i vote, upvote and resteemed!
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Thank you very much!
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I must thank you for all information you give. Looking to my posts, I noticed an increase of revenue much over it is my level, thanks for your upvote. Thanks again!
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Finally! I am able to get steemifications 😁 very nice, one of the things that Esteem lacks.
If someone tags me I can see it now, keep us updated for future features.
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Awesome, glad you enjoy the app!
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Congratulations man, you guys deserve to enjoy a good celebration.
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Thank you!
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And now the SBD price doubled in minutes! Even after a big correction, it's above $12 once again. I wonder how long will this last.
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WOW this goodnews @exyle. APPLE is a big name in the phone world and anything that will get STeem into the visual field of iphone users is a big win for STEEMIT & its allied platform.
@ned should get you a beer actually. Lolx
STEEMIFY...here we go to the moon!
Wish you goodluck inyour witness endeavours.
I myself have been working on something that will boost Steem via the healthcare sector. My team and I have created the first decentralized healthcare facility built on the STEEM blockhain network. we are the uber /airbnb of healthcare.
Its called #AIR-CLINIC. You may check out the tag. Here's our PILOT POST
We have partnered with @stach, @sircock witness and the steemstarnetwork. I could go on but I have to stop here.
You can find us on discord https://discord.gg/rqded5m. The community is quite large. And is growing everyday...and we are just 10days old.
Anyway cheers!
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The boss read your post. I love it very much. It is actually a very nice way to post a thank you post.
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You are handsome
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This blog motivates me to work on this platform even more! Thank you! Thumbs up!
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That looks like an awesome app! Unfortunately, I have an android phone. It'd be great to get notifications for this stuff instead of having to refresh my page all the time :P
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Hmmm. Very impressive i must say from @blockbrothers. Over a hundred downloads already. Wow.
These past 2 months has been the best for me too, both on steemit and crypto. We all have to pause atimes to celebrate once in a while. Getting that app approved is not really easy i understand you when you say that. I can relate. Congrats on that.
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Good to hear steemify is now officially on Apple store. I don't have an iPhone,so I'll just have to wait for the android version. Pizza and a drink is a sure way to celebrate,bronging such a crazy week to a closure.
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Looking forward to my up arrow actually doing something one day!
what a great week indeed...thanks
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Congratulations on having your app in the app store...that is really great. You deserve to celebrate, wishing you and the team great success ahead :)
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Hey again here.
that good for your achievement, celebrate it, you deserve it a lot.
As for the post, I was not lucky to receive that nice prize in steem, I think I did not deserve it, but I'll keep fighting to deserve it.
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I have downloaded and the results are very good and satisfying
thank you verymuch
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I am a newbie and have not got into Bitcoin yet but I am learning about the literal ups and downs of the volatility of it. In any case, I don't really have enough to invest yet.
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That's awesome. I'll being checking out the app for sure.
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Brilliant! awesome week this has been indeed
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Congratulations!!!
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Just got it. Thanks for the wonderful effort.
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you are really brilliant
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Hard works does pay off great work once again the best of the roller coaster rides till now great week this has to be till now :)
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Congratulations on your App. Looking forward to Android. But also looking forward to sharing this info at a Steemit/Bitcoin Meetup I host each week in St Louis. (https://steemit.com/life/@jacobts/st-louis-steemit-bitcoin-happy-hour-meetup-2) All the best to you and your team!
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I hope the next week will be as productive as this, at least, 50 percent.
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wow finally steemify is launched thanks for sharing this update bro yeah we do had a great time this week in crypto but you made it more cooler with this update
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Wow congratulation
Best wishes for more
May you lead to more success
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This is such awesome news. I joined steemit not long ago but it seems like I've been waiting for the application forever!
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congratulations and follow the good news. follow me
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Congratulations on Steemify ! Looking forward to using it.
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i was looking forward to the steemify update and finally its here thanks for this update let me try that
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you got more reasons to celebrate congratulations on the approval of steemify :)
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Good work that's what team work looks like finally its made possible it definitely calls for the pizza party time to stay updated with every notification with steemify
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wow! This is so cool! well done!!
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Congratulations on this achievement bro! I just have one question: will you also be making an android version of Steemify?
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just downloaded it! cooool!
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I just installed the app. Now I will be steemifyed 24/7. Getting notifications about steemit will be great. Good job.
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I am going to give this a try.
I hope you get rewarded for your effort. Keep going
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That's great news man , did you create the app yourself?
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congrats on the approval :)
This is why you guys deserve be a witness working hard for the rest of us :)
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Do not forget time to celebrate and acknowledge those successes. For real! With so much going, think about where you guys are heading and where you came from.
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Job well-done to you.
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