Hello, Team Steemit
ITS NICE TO BE HERE WITH YOU PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS!
My dream is to be there.... @SteemFest. Too bad I can't Fly. I normally don't need to, but right now would be a good time to ask... If not, ill ask Santa for wings for Xmas. (Did you know it's 'Satan' if you move the middle letter to the end... hmmmm creepy).
Ill show up for 2017.
....Anyways, I have been thinking about our platform, and if it is worth putting hours into everyday. I used to think once a week was a good amount of time to take for a post, but I have now learned that a lot of us post once per day. This is great, but it can make the others (Minnows) swim away scared. A lot of us will come on to read interesting stories, and curate, but we dont see much posts from them. We may need to re-asses as older members, and dolphin/whales and start encouraging fresh faces to share their story, and/ or creations. This is a community, not a bunch of people who are better than others... That reminds me of current systems we have where the rich get richer and poor and get poorer. But this is what we see throughout history when a new Idea is met with old ways. The powerful Idea and potential only becomes as good as the people receiving it, so lets change the way we do things, and do the opposite of our first instinct. Maybe it means posting something that you are afraid to, or Up-voting somebody who you normally wouldn't. We can hoard our power and wealth, but it will only lead to new members leaving very quickly because they are not succeeding, leaving your power and coins worth less and less.
I have some realizations to share with you. Especially those who have not been writing much lately like me. I have a reason, I have been so busy at school, but decided to say F*** it and write whats on my mind. It started as an expression of how I was feeling, The end result of which was this GIF down below.
Kim Kardashian Makes a killing and a fortune (and a fortune to do her killing), off of social media. She recently got robbed from posting too much info and showing off n social media. She got robbed of 11 million dollars in jewelry. This is Karma in my opinion. You cannot have all of that money without using it for good, and sharing it without having the universe making things fair.
My Thoughts!
I am sure whoever stays an part of this community in the long run with us will all benefit enormously from their efforts. Look what sticking with Twitter, Facebook, Snap chat and YouTube for a few years, posting consistently and daily did for some people. Some are huge influences, on people, especially young people. The next generation is waiting to be shaped into the future in my eyes. The Content Generators of today become idols and celebrities in extreme cases. We worship the dirt they stand on (The dirt is worthy by itself being part of mother earth). More recently big companies are even realizing the influence they have, writing them checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars for a commercial. Within a year or so many have built full time carriers either within Steemit, or because of the connections, Ideas, Knowledge acquired and partners you will meet on here, and with a little bit of effort at first, becoming effortless in time) they built an empire. They built a name.
Advertizing? Yes, or hell NO!
On Steemit, you already can make thousands of of one post, so I doubt there will ever become a need for advertising on here besides the advertising of ideas and projects. We cannot stay successful either if others do not approve of someone trying to slip product ads in their posts somehow. What do you think?
Look at people like @infovore, @kevinwong, @mrs.steemit , @chris4210, @allasyummyfood , @neilstrauss , @ned , @dantheman , @dollarvigilante , @heiditravels , @stellabelle and many more successful Steem-mates. There are already Hundreds, if not, thousands of jobs created with this platform, and there is still lots of room for more. I am confident this community will even out the profits, making many successful bloggers, not just a handful that I described. I am also sure that there are more successful people than those that I mentioned. All who have made a full carrier out of this platform within months.
There are more types of people joining making different styles of content creation needed. Not everybody is going to be into crypto-currencies that join, some not caring much about that aspect. I am exited to see where it takes me, and every day I miss out, I feel like new things have happened that I missed. We all areclearning together how to use our tools to the fullest potential.
I wanted to share my love with all of those on Steemit. We are a community, and we need to keep growing and working together to really build this platform. I hope we all can learn to use this platform daily, not just those who have a Top Grade story, or writing skills.
We all are walking pieces of art
-Unknown
I have realized that It can be intimidating looking at the quality of some posts, and it can be discouraging when they get huge returns from their seemingly effortless complex stories. There are many visually appealing Steemit posts with many well backed up arguments.
If this isn't you, dont worry
You definitely have something you can contribute, whether it be a photo or two of your day (tho I hope we don't all need to share every meal) as long as it was eventful, maybe a short story that you go over in your head, if its bothering you then maybe your thoughts about a worldly or trending topic/ event, or a question you have been asking yourself. The only thing that really is important, is:
#1You have come up with the post fully, besides quotes or links to backup your post
(C'umon, if you can't think of something to blog about, you most likely are not in a state of mind to be creative and imaginative. Try going for a walk somewhere peaceful, ideally near some water or trees. This will work wonders at raising your energy, and higher vibration thought. They call this the Flow State, and it can be achieved easily by getting high (smoking some cannabis) and taking a jog. After which you will be able to get past that writers block... Give it a try (the pot is optional).
#2 Your post is written with mindfulness and some care
I do not think you will get many Upvotes if you use improper punctuation, spelling and grammar. The odd mistake is understandable when the rest shows care (everybody makes the odd mistake). The main thing is that you correct mistakes as you go, and review/edit afterwards. This makes you look like somebody Whales want to see more of, because remember, Whales have the responsibility and power to direct where Steemit goes, meaning you must do your best to be a good example so that your peers wants to read more in the future, and want others see more of your work in the future aswell. Punctuation and spelling is a must with all the great writers on here nowadays.. Sell yourself!
#3. Make it STVND 0UT Look at the visual Layout of some of the 'Trending' posts and you will see that usually they are doing something different. There is a lot of competition
The whole point is to start writing, dont let the little things like judgement of others scare you away from contributing, at the end of the day steemit will only succeed in changing the world if we all participate. It is a project that was given to the people be a wonderful @dantheman a long long time ago in the cryptoshere. I urdge you all to keep on putting faith in yourself and this once in an eon opportunity. We are truely blessed, and I feel like this platform is one of the many divinely inspired creations of mankind. I bet dantheman is connected some very divine beings. CCCOUUGHH! ALIENS! ;)
Check out STEEMFEST. You are lucky if you are near amsterdam. Nov 12
If you do go to SteemFest make sure you don't forget your blogging device. And be sure throw around your ideas and goals to see if maybe others can offer a similar vision. We are in this together. We cannot afford to be separate anymore as humans.
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