If you died tomorrow, would you be proud of your last post?

Yeah yeah, rough title, let's get over the normal reactions like "Dont' say that", "God forbids" and any others people come up with, let's be raw and uncensored.

Imagine you die tomorrow. After leaving this world and with that, leaving your familiy, friends, life and everything you know, all that's left from you is your legacy, what you leave in this world after you are gone.

Some people spend a lifetime trying to create a legacy. There are those who focus in stacking as many material goods as they can so their sons and daughters can inherit them. I know of people who try to make an impact in as many people as they can because one's memory is a kind of legacy.

There are a lot of ways to leave a mark on this world, one of them is through the blockchain technology that allows us to set in stone whatever we want. That's a double edge knife though, because anything we write here will be engraved to eternity.

But wait, why am I talking about this topic on this post? What made me think about this post?

Well, lately @acidyo and myself been browsing Steem and checking specific accounts and then deciding if we should start following them to be able to vote on some of their posts on a regular basis - this regular basis being variable, from daily to never - depending on their quality.

But, what are we taking into consideration when deciding if we should follow them? Well, first, the author should have been curated by @ocd in the past; second, the steemian must have been active within the past two weeks - active means making comments or posting, third, we check they are not abusers, bid bot stackers or plagiarizers; fourth, content quality: constantly posting good stuff.

Fourth, content quality: constantly posting good stuff.

Yep, quality is subjective, but I think that you, me, @theycallmedan, @heiditravels, @soyrosa, @meesterboom, my dog, your cat, hell, even @haejin can agree that one picture of your cat with a line of text is not a good quality post. Do you agree? Nice, I'm glad we agree on this, it's crucial that we do so we can continue with this train of thought.

So, imagine that a curator, a whale or a curation group decides to start following random accounts and they base their decision on your last post.

Are you certain they would start following you?

Do you feel confident that your las piece really reflects the overall quality of your blog?

If you died tomorrow, would you be proud of your last post?

One year ago one of my advices to minnows and people trying to make a name for themselves was: Be constant. Post daily and get your audience used to seeing your content on their feed. Make them expect your daily post but most importanlty, don't get discouraged or lose drive to keep posting content of middle to high quality.

But that was before the EIP and all the changes #NewSteem brought with it.

Now, my first advice would be:

Make every post as if it was your last one. Think of your latest piece as your sales pitch for other stakeholders, curators and whales. Take the chance of showing off your blog as a high quality content venue. Your latest post speaks for you,

There's a shiton of Steem Power available curating daily, and you are missing out on getting voted by posting daily pictures of your soup and small texts about your day - nothing wrong with that, anyone can post whatever they want, but if you want to get noticed and get more votes, my reccomendation is:

Post less, but post the highest quality you can manage.

Saying this I don't mean to stop posting, I'm just advicing you to perhaps not don't post 3 times a day a middle quality post but try and perhaps create one high quality post a day... and if you post 5 times a day, then try to do it twice but make every whale out there want to curate the shit out of them. Make it as high quality as you can so nobody can say meh, i'll pass on curating this

As an OG @ocd curator, not great but at least good quality content creator (or so I like to think so), dolphin Steem Power stakeholder and friendly neighbourhood nomad that's the best advice I can give you, considering the current Steem circumstances.

If you died tomorrow, would you be proud of your last post?

_{Oh yeah, I needed a pic for this post, look at my dog. Ironic, huh?}