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Hi there, first of all, I love your nickname but will like knowing your first name too :-)

And the most important thing which I did not want to mention in the comment to your posts,
you need to learn about Steem voting system!!
I appreciate your upvotes, but you have to stop with them for now, you have already spent all your voting power:
https://steemstats.com/#!/grateful-charts
https://www.steemnow.com/@grateful-charts
https://steemd.com/@grateful-charts
(those 3 are all Steemit stats sites, you just add there the account username you want to look at)

And kindly please do me a big favor and read this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@zipplyo/steemit-hangover-9-lessons-from-week-one

Your posts are way too great to squander during your first days here.
They are way too special, to be lost among the mass of low voted writings.

Please save some of them for later, when you will be able to more powerfully upvote them yourself
and maybe at the beginning use the upvoting bots to make them more noticible to others.

I want you to know that I am absolutely sure that you would not need any bots to make your posts valuable, but first, you must let others find you, and for that, the bots could prove useful.

I am sorry I was not able to do anything today, I had a crazy busy day. Tomorrow too I would not be able to visit Steemit before evening, and I would like to share with you few more Steemit tips and articles to read.

I am just very afraid that without knowing the Steemit howtos, you will give all that you got, and after few days you will be gone thinking it is not worth it...

Thank you so much for all your help! I really appreciate it. I have read and looked over all the links you sent me and they helped greatly. I am going to spend some time in the coming weeks setting up my routine on here and method of using the platform. It seems like I am making the same begginners mistakes as most do. Do not worry about me getting discouraged and not continueing to post. I do this for me on a self development level. I love sharing my work and life and have plenty of content. My life has been a very interesting journey and now that I have a platform to share the trip I am very excited. Creating a personal archive of past experiences and future projects is my main draw. I really want to have all of my existing work and life on here just so if I die there is a permanent record on a blockchain forever. Kind of a spriritual trail of my most inner self. As I post more people will really understand who I am on a deep level and I will unlock things about myself tht I never kknew existed. Content is life and life is good, so do not worry about me :) and my name is christopher davis. As far as bots are concerened Ido not know enough about the platform yet to venture into that area and my budget is very tied up in many projects so I can not afford to invest into steemit quit yet. I am investing my time and work to first build a small network and get used to the program before I commit too much financially. It seems like the trick is to get whales on your side, and the whales are the heavy investors in the coin looking to bring good content to the platform so I am not too worried about promoting my own work quite yet. When I have a nice full page with a decent amount of followers and I am comfortable here, then the big fish will want to promote me but I think its a little early right now. Thanks again for all the support, you really are my mentor in steemit. Together we will be #1 trending author in many categories! Have a great day and talk to you soon

Hi Christopher, (my son's name is Kristopher with a K ;-)
I too do this on a self-development level. As you have likely noticed, Eng is not my native language, so Steemit is good for my English and especially for my writing.

Steemit is different, different from anything I've ever done online and it stretches my abilities and knowledge in new, various ways. I feel like I am growing here.

And there is, of course, that income part, a chance to build some kind of a retirement income fund, which is important for me, for in spite of my own brick and mortar business (landscaping and gardening) and years online, I still haven't started.

As to me being your mentor here, no chances, I am just a newbie too, the only difference is that I read some of the how-to posts and you did not ;-)

Yes, you have a vast perspective on writing here

I really want to have all of my existing work and life on here just so if I die there is a permanent record on a blockchain forever. Kind of a spiritual trail of my most inner self

so I would not worry anymore :-)

Oh, and please look here: https://steemit.com/trending/cryptocurrency
and here: https://steemit.com/@haejin
and maybe consider using your skills for some crypto price predictions, here's a huge market for it.

awesome, thanks. I plan to do a lot of live charting and screen recording etc. dlive and dtube, . dtube just hooked up my video with a $35 upvote! super stoked, I checked who did it and it was dtube itself. felt kinda good. :)

WOW super, congrats on it. Likely your video was same quality as your posts.