This video is all about you, my friend. I am humbled and grateful to have you in my life. This community has been such a blessing to me and I am happily compelled to give back.
I hit a new milestone of 1000 followers a couple weeks back and I want to celebrate. I believe it's important to celebrate each accomplishment along your Steem journey because what gets celebrated gets repeated. As long as you are celebrating your successes, you will encounter more successes down the road.
Will you help me celebrate today? Awesome. Here's the scoop...
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I want to give away 10 Steem to 1 person who WOWs me. Here is what I would like you to do.
Leave a Long-Form Comment
By long-form I mean at least 2 paragraphs. I want you to write about something that has intrigued you or inspired you during your Steem journey. Or, what is something that you absolutely LOVE about Steem that no other social network has? Or, what is the backstory of what brought you to Steem?
Answering one of those or multiple of those questions will suffice. Feel free to comment on a topic besides those questions but try to keep it related to Steem. Tip: Pictures and/or videos in your comment will really spark my attention as I am a visually-inspired person.
Please put some time and attention into your comment as I will be going through each and every one manually and the choosing the best response. You have until Saturday, July 14th at 11:59EST to leave a comment.
Follow @kenmelendez
This one is pretty easy...just click on my username then hit "follow" so that you can continue receiving more value from my channel.
Resteem This Post
Do you remember the old saying "Please be kind, rewind" for VHS tapes? Or am I dating myself? ;) Please be kind and resteem this post so that the rest of the community has the same opportunity that you have.
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Reaching this new milestone has taken dedication and constant effort. If you want to also build your follower base like I am doing, then simply emulate my actions and take to heart the lessons that I teach everyday.
I am so thankful and appreciative of all the support this community has given over the past 7 months I have been on this platform. Next is 1500 followers, then 2000, and beyond. My buddy IJ wants to reach 15,000 followers so here's a shout out to him @steemcafe.
On a sidenote, I do want to mention, that even though the number of followers is important, it isn't near as important to me as the quality of content that I am releasing. If you guys have time, please also in that same comment, let me know how I am doing and how I can improve to help serve you better. I am open to criticism as long as it is constructive.
Again you have until Saturday, July 14th at 11:59EST to complete these actions. I will then go through and choose the comment that blows my socks off.
I appreciate you, friend and thank you for consuming this entire post. I can't wait to see you in the next one and until then, remember... You Are Awesome. Take care.
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-Ken
@kenmelendez
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Hi bro 🤗 , I'm so happy for your this new achievement and I'm so glad I'm also a part of it , as I joined you in one of these contests....hehe. So to answer your question I chose this question.
> What is the backstory of what brought you to Steem?
So to say that I have to say from the beginning..
So up until last year , I would say my life was okay okay , yeah we had our fair share of problems , financial and medical , especially my parents. But it wasn't a news to me , since I was used to it all.
But then last year , my one and only sister became very I'll , we never knew she had a problem with her brain ( I hope no body knows about this , that's why I have never posted about it , cause I really want to respect her , plus it hurts my heart ) . Yeah , this made all of us very depressed , and then again her medication had a lot of complications , and it was very expensive. All we could do was pray. But the saddest part was , me , I couldn't stop crying , and every time I call home , I will crack jokes and pretend like everything is fine. But I couldn't do it anymore that's how I started blogging here on steemit.
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But that was just the tip of the iceberg of my life. We all didn't know that our house was on this big case . And we were losing hard. My grandpa never told my dad . So we all didn't know , and last year was when he told.. it was like many problems all coming at once. Okay so we are going to be homeless ?! That thought made me more depressed , just by the fact that both my parents have been working all their life , and they are not even healthy people , but all for our sake . And now that they even wanted to settle down , we might not even have a place to stay.
So it really depressed me. But again , Everytime I called home , my mom would be all crying so I had to be strong for her. Then came the next problem , my mom got these bleeding throughout the month , it was so hard . And my dad has his problems too. So me , I had to somehow help them out , but I am still in school.
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So I decided to do this and make some money to help my family . So that somehow we can survive you know. And also to keep me from going into the dark side. There were many times when I feel really sad , really hopeless , but many people whom I met here have actually helped me alot . To stay alive you know.
God bless you brother.
I have been into this wonderful platform (Steemit) since March 2018, here as I always say has given me the opportunity to share my thoughts, travel escapades, voluptuous food trips, different stories and photographs of the marvelous God's creation.
I am very much thankful also because I got a new family/friends in steemit, as they say, earning here is just a bonus because by steeming, I am able to meet new friends/family, acquire new knowledge from others perception and share some insights and stories about me.
June 2018, I have posted about my Grandpa who was confined in the hospital and was diagnosed with severe emphysema (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/COPD ). Because of steemit, I have gathered 15.058 STEEM, 7.893 SBD - from the post-payout and collected all the SBD that I earned in my wallet from the month that I started. I converted it into a steem and got a total of 65 steem. I transferred it to the Philippines for my grandpa's medication.
I dedicate my first pay out all for my Grand father. I love him very much! I will always remember this awesome and heartfelt feeling of sharing, learning and giving. I will keep on steeming to support his medication.
what has intrigued or inspired me during your Steem trip
to be honest what attracted me was being able to publish any content on a website and get some reward for it, but when I enter I see that everything is not rosy, I understood that there is a lot of work behind a quality publication and my intention is to be able to live on this great platform.
But not everything remains here, there are many servers in discord and communities, that help you keep growing inside steemit, I am Spanish, and my current intention is as follows.
I present to tedax the new bot where I am currently working
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many times it is impossible to get a favorable vote, for that reason I want to create a trail expecie, that is, the more people who join this bot that voting power will increase, where we can ask for a vote every 24 hours
Also I would like to have the support of a whale for the following projects that I mention below
I already have an active contest, of animated shorts where just for participating and you will gain some sbd totally free, it is something very simple, vote the post, restem and vote in the comment box for the short that you like, in this way you will be participating for 40% of the generated in the post, and the generated in the comment box, is distributed equally to all participants
If I had the support of a whale for this project, I would also do the following
If a month is 4 weeks, what I generate in the last two weeks of each month, would make a raffle to all the people who follow through steemauto, that is if we collect say 50 sbd, 0.25% would allocate it to two or three winners.
as you see my intention is not only to grow and be able to live with this platform, but also to be able to help other users, but I need support for all this, I just can not
Hello @kenmelendez I hope you are well, first I want to say, congratulations on your 1000 followers. When the work is good, you will see good fruits.
About your question " I want you to write about something that has intrigued you or inspired you during your Steem journey. Or, what is something that you absolutely LOVE about Steem that no other social network has? Or, what is the backstory of what brought you to Steem?"
It all started earlier this year, I'll talk a little bit about myself, since you guys don't know me, I'm a doctor and I live in Venezuela and I work in a well-recognized clinic where I live.
This is where it all started. You should know by the thousands of comments from Venezuelans, the country is in a very difficult situation, even for us doctors who in other countries are very well paid for the work they do, I got in Steemit a help.
I met about Steemit one night when I got a patient who had a fracture and he had to be valued by the traumatologist on duty. After valuing and stabilizing the patient, the doctor told me about a very good page in which to write and upload quality content one could get a remuneration, one of his words was "I earn more as in the page than as Traumatologist ".
I met about Steemit one night when I got a patient who had a fracture and he had to be valued by the traumatologist on duty. After valuing and stabilizing the patient, the doctor told me about a very good page in which to write and upload quality content one could get a remuneration, one of his words was "I earn more as in the page than as Traumatologist ". I was with the restlessness but because of the occupations, let the time pass a little, I went back to work and when I found Dr. Asked "How are things going in steemit? " And my answer was, "I haven't registered yet." It was so much curiosity that I decided to open my account so I was to wait a few days for approval. Once it was approved, I can say that my life changed. Through these months in steemit I have gone through many moments in which I have found of steemit a help, since the death of my grandmother, to write while I cried and to vent, to know that my twin sister was pregnant and I will be uncle in a few days, to lose the Fear that other people will say about me, finding multiple contests. Many people will ask a doctor dancing in Steemit?, yes, Steemit made me lose my fear and feel comfortable with me. Sow to contribute to the planet. There are many good things I can find in Steemit. I'll leave you a sample in the video.
https://youtu.be/fWdSF1EgTaA
You are Awesome too
Cheers buddy o/
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