RE: Day 295: 5 Minute Freewrite: Friday - Prompt: burning
hey @digitalmind.
I agree here. It's quite easy to start any project with passion and great determination. The trick is to sustain it, especially when there's no natural end to it. Kind of like STEEM. We have posts and comments with endings, but there's always another post and comment to make. There's always more to engage with, and there's always someone else's post to read. It can drain on you.
So, I suppose, that means that somehow our unbridled enthusiasm needs to be constrained to some degree, tempered with something, or sustained with it. Avoiding too high highs and too low lows. Taking time to celebrate small victories, but always pushing for greater.
Not easy, but necessary, if we're ever going to accomplish anything.
Very good use of the prompt, I think. :)
@glenalbrethsen thank you very much for dropping by and I really appreciate you understood what I meant in the post.
You are absolutely right to point out the essentials to start and sustain a task or project ( like the Steem ) and it is not an easy task. It takes help and courage from others to push and pull each other because most of us faced with ups and downs and needed a booster to pull us back on track.
Therefore, a real network with m=people who share the similar objective needs to come together to work on this task/ project together.
What you have pointed out is so real
So, I suppose, that means that somehow our unbridled enthusiasm needs to be constrained to some degree, tempered with something, or sustained with it. Avoiding too high highs and too low lows. Taking time to celebrate small victories, but always pushing for greater.Cheers
I absolutely agree. I've been helped along by the curation and engagement leagues, and many find other communities, like freewrite to fall into. We probably need to figure out a better way to get newcomers oriented and set up with people to see if we can retain more of them. Starting off with the warning that, "Steemit is not a get rich quick scheme" and go from there. :)
I agreed. Some of the Discord founders have attempted to get an upfront expectation. Unfortunately, most newbiew joined discord group to expect to get upvote without any contribution. Sad but this is the fact
Well, they're told to do that, too, except apparently they either don't hear or ignore, or it wasn't said, that they need to do something first. I've shied away from all of that myself, but if it serves as a better means than what's currently available to get people some proper orientation, I guess it's better than nothing. I ended up reading through the Steemit FAQs and the etiquette posts, but that's apparently too much to ask and is also probably outdated somewhat.
yeah, having said that, there are legitimate discord group that really tried their best to help their own community members. They consistently keep their members aware of their obligation before asking for upvote. It is very time consuming and needed patience with these newbies
hopefully, more newbie get educated to jump into the band wagon and start to contribute as well
cheers