Huge congratualtions to @glenalbrethsen to making it to the number one slot! I'm not at all surprised you're there considering the quality and length of comments I've see you made. Well deserved indeed.
Congrats to @lynncoyle1 and @leeart for being in the second and third spots.
I'm very surprised to see myself in number four given, I was away over Easter but then I imagine many people were. I was also probably dragged up by the prolific commenting on my posts by @glenalbrethsen and @fullcoverbetting. I always ran out of steam before they did! 😂
For a brief moment there, seeing a fourth place, I had the urge to compete to get back into the top three but I don't want that sort of pressure or focus. It doesn't make me a happy bunny. So, next week, will be more of the same for me.
Good luck to you all and, thanks as always to @abh12345, @carlgnash and @paulag.
Have a brill week everyone! 💙
Did the last chapter of the post surprised you @gillianpeace? Or were you hinting to something else with the ‘D’.
Hmmm. Not sure what you mean by last chapter @fullcoverbetting! The 'd' referred to delegation which you were generously allocated! 😁
Okay, my bad the chapter just above that!
Ha, ha, ha. @fullcoverbetting. Nope. Still don't get it. What do you mean by "chapter"? 😕
Okay, forgot that I was interacting with a woman 😂😂😂 No offense but I shall write it out. Price for lucky number 25
I still have no idea what "chapter" has to do with it @fullcoverbetting. I will ignore your first comment. Moving on . . . 😂
Chapter = paragraph :)
Thank you very much @gillianpearce, a top 10 (or even 60) finish is very respectable indeed.
I hope you have a fab week too!
I'm glad to see you finish higher than you expected too. It just shows how much engagement and work and time you are putting in, even with time off. And that's done you some good, too, so win-win all around.
I'm still not sure how you and @lynncoyle1 and @leeart and others are able to make so many comments, but I'm going to try to get up closer to those numbers this week. You all set a very high standard to try to maintain just in the natural course of your being here and doing what you do.
If I had any small part in getting you into the top 4, I'm happy. You brought me up just as much, though, so maybe that's the way things are supposed to work. We help each other to bring up our engagement.
I know how you feel about the focus being on you when you're in the top 3. I don't know if I'm feeling it quite yet because I'm still new to this and not everyone knows me, but we'll see how this week goes at No. 1 and whether or not I can keep that spot.
Oh no. I didn't mean I felt the focus was on me when I was in the top three. I meant it just feeds into my competitive streak and suddenly winning becomes more important than how much I'm enjoying the process.
I catch it very quickly because, nowadays, I know that the process if all as far as I'm concerned. Fundamentally, I don't care how much I'm earning or what number I am but it is very, very easy for me to forget that and get triggered into competition or comparing myself with others.
That's an important part of my journey here both in the League and on Steemit. To see that faster and faster and to choose a different path.
My feeling of wanting to get back into the top three was very brief and passed quickly. That for me is a huge "win"!
I'm not saying I will never compete for the top spot but I don't want to feel compelled to do so. If it's fun that's fine. It's when it starts to feel important that it's a problem. 😁
Okay. Sorry that I misunderstood what you meant. Me reflecting my own thoughts, I guess.
You are right, and having a competitive streak is something I need to curb, too. It used to be a lot worse, but I see it rearing its ugly head in me now and then. Doing the best I can is important to me, but learning to accept my limits is necessary, too. When both happen, I think I'm in good shape.
This does need to be fun and fulfilling and not feel like a chore, so hopefully we can all find that balance.
Well for those of us that need to, I think the League is the perfect environment to learn how to find balance @glenalbrethsen. And just think how marvellous that will be when we take this into the rest of our life too!
Steemit works in mysterious ways! 😂
I guess I will have to shorten the time I'm on Steemit in order to carry anything I learn from it into the real world then. :) My wife hasn't been happy that she's competing for my time when she's not had that much herself. So, there's more balance to be had all over my world. :)
It's good you recognise that @glenalbrethsen. As long as you're aware you can work your way to balance. So many of us are having to learn that here. Even the great @abh12345! 😁
Congratulations @gillianpearce! The race becomes exhausting...better just to keep doing what you obviously do so well, and let the chips fall where they may:)
Thank you @lynncoyle1. That's such a perfect way to describe it. I'm loving that I'm still doing well without pushing myself hard because of the League.
I find Steemit quite a hard game to manage for all sorts of reasons but I'm getting more even keeled, I think, as time goes on. 😍
Yep I'm the same! I guess like most things, we figure out more and more, the longer we're involved. We also figure out what exactly it is that deserves our time :)
Yep @lynncoyle1. What deserves our time is really the most important question I think.
Hope you're both having a good week. 😍
Thank you @gillianpearce! It's hard to be in league with @glenalbrethsen haha!
I have to take it slow also. I'd rather have fun in doing this.
It's a lot of work, that's for sure, and more than that, a lot of time involved. I need to get faster if I'm going to end up with the number of comments you, @lynncoyle1 and @gillianpearce have been making, even in an off week!
It's good to have purpose, though, beyond just being here and doing your own thing. I think I've benefited any many ways just by participating in this. My focus has turned way outward from where it was and that's made it much more fulfilling and satisfying.
I still need to say congratulations, by the way! So, congratulations for another top finish. As you said, last week, I think, we just keep doing what we're doing and see how it shakes out.
I'm glad you're feeling the benefits of participating in this @glenalbrethsen because I seem to recall you were questioning a bit your presence here. I think that was the first time I came across you! 😊
It's kind of amazing, actually. I think I still question my presence here, but I've also found something larger than myself now, that has greater benefit beyond what I benefit from it. And since it falls into what I wanted to do here, anyway, that's the best part. I wasn't just doing it on my own. I needed to push more, and I wasn't going to do it on my own, because I didn't know what it would take. You and others are showing me what it takes. :)
Aw. That's brilliant to hear @glenalbrethsen, that it falls into what you wanted to do here. How fab!
I still question my presence here but try and take it one day at a time. 😁
Ultimately, I want to write and then engage over my writing, but just like anywhere else around the Internet, people need to know you exist, let alone like what you write, and so that typically means going out to meet them once you know they're there, and engaging over things they post or like first.
It's what I want to do, it's just not what I'm naturally inclined to do, so this engagement league is helpful in getting me out there.
In addition to that, I keep running into lovely people who do actually want to engage back. People who I can have honest, meaningful discussions with. I think that's good for me, hopefully good for them, good for Steemit, and ultimately, our society as a whole, if there's at least a portion of us keeping communication alive.
And if anything like an abiding friendship springs out of it, all the better. I think that's possible, too. Three months in, it's hard to call anything a longstanding anything, let alone friendship, but I'd like to be here for the long haul to see what happens with that too, as long as there's a long haul to be had. :)
The thing I would like most is to meet everyone in person. It would be great if we could all get together at the Steemfest. That would be brilliant! 😁
It could be taxing if you think about it. I wonder if we could have this much of a discussion and interaction if there is no prize haha!
That's a hard call, isn't it? I mean, I don't want to slight this league or the people involved and participating, because it's amazing as it is, but the amount of STEEM available for prizes can't be the only reason people are here and interacting. So, I think there would still be some interacting, because it's fun and because it helps people keep going and it eventually helps reset Steemit.
The prizes though do help, and so I think it's a combination of providing just enough incentive at this point to get the ones who are mostly inclined already to participate.
It's mostly the interacting part that keeps me going here. That's why I comment on a lot to others to start conversations. Even if I would not make it, I would still continue doing so and keep referring others here to hopefully keep the socializing alive if they are encouraged by to join this contest.
Yep. Agreed. It'a quite a balance to be had @leeart. 😍
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