Focus is important. Staying steadfast towards your goal and what you are doing ATM is very important. But, there always is room for flexibility, not laziness or breaks, just flexibility. Giving space for life's shenanigans play itself and maneuvering according to that. I say Stay focused and working towards your goal, while being nifty enough to ride the ups and downs.

One of the challenges I see new people face when learning about steem is that "steem" "blockchain" "crypto" all these words are either new or strange to them. Flight or fight kicks in and it gets shaky from there on.
But through personal experience and showing them what we do on the blockchain always gets them interested. Recently, I got my sister t join, too!