Hello Friends!
Join me for my morning coffee as I hang out in a park and discuss the topic of gratitude. One thing that really strikes me about most of the top Steemians is that they seem to “get” the fact that every single vote is a gift. They also understand that success is not drawn in a linear line! There are a lot of ups and downs on the platform, and living from this mindset can really help you to stay more grounded.
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In this video I chat about what entitlement looks like on this platform and how by focusing on getting votes – you are actually not attracting the kind of supporters you want anyway! People can SMELL DESPERATE and they can often feel your intentions through your post.
Success on this platform does not happen overnight and it is often built one person at a time. By really focusing on feeling grateful for every single person who supports you with their vote or leaves an engaging comment on your blog, regardless of their steem power, you will slowly start to build your base of support. It will be truly authentic support as well because it is coming from people who are actually excited to support you. Also, I am not saying that every great Steemian has this kind of mindset – but many of them do.
The text in this post simply serves as a high level over view – please watch the video to get the full content from this post!
PS… I am filming outdoors and so excuse the plane overhead in part and the rooster crowing at another point. Seriously, the park I went to has a little community farm. It’s so cute!
I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I honestly think the sooner one can detach from any feeling of expectation – and just be grateful every day that someone decides to support them with a vote – the sooner they will see success on the platform.
If you have any thoughts or questions on this topic, please shoot them in the comments below!
Xo,Lea
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@furn01 | March 17, 2018, 12:47 a.m. | Votes: 4 | [
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In a park with a coffee cup and it is not plastic? How?? Please tell me :-)
Great video and some really quality content.
I think the biggest thing to mention is patience.
Far too many people are not patient and give up after a few weeks because they do not earn thousands for every post.
Just checked out some of your other videos and LOVE your music videos especially the ring of fire, AWESOME!!
Do you take requests? Would love to hear Oasis - Whatever :-)
I upvoted this great video, I think it is only worth $2 at 100% but if I could upvote more I would.
Take care and look forward to more great content.
I totally agree with this. Spending all your time focusing on trying to get .001 Steem by asking for upvotes or spamming peoples comments, you're just pushing yourself away from where you actually want to end up.
Instead, putting that energy into making your posts have more depth, info, and resources, will be a much more satisfying (personally) and financially benificial endeavor.
Invest time into developing your voice and content on the platform and you will be SO much closer to achieving your Steemit goals. Like I tell people new to Steemit, be honest, open, and real, and you can carve out your own space in the Steemit world!
This is too true and something that many people (me included at times) don't think about. People feel entitled like you said, and they expect to see their success as something obvious and constantly increasing. But in reality success isn't always a straight line, and sometimes it will seem like you've backtracked. The most important thing is to not get discouraged and keep working towards your final goal though.
I must say that I feel often that I wont ever reach the success I want. I can blame my field (photography... It's a diluted one), and I can blame my skills and camera (when I see those hundreds of thousands of amazing photos online), but these excuses are something that we use just to justify a lack of visible success. But I think that there is much more going on behind the scenes... Maybe my last post got less upvotes than before, but other things happened too. I learnt more about taking photos, I tried something new maybe. But in the end I got more practice, and I think that even if the results are visible initially, they are there in some form.
It's hard to always remember this though. Sometimes it feels like there is no success or improvement at all. So thank you for writing this post! I feel a lot more motivated for today, and I will always try to remember this in the future when something doesn't work as well as I had wished.