There are times that this journey is frustrating. Choosing the wrong time to put in a two hour session of commenting, or posting content that is obviously valuable and the results are far below expectations. This is discouraging, and I think that is the whole point.

When I am faced with these kinds of emotions I pin it down to a message my intuition is sending me, and that is that something is wrong. I feel discouraged, Irritated, and frustrated by the struggles I have been facing so far.

The biggest struggle was choosing what content to write and which topics to cover, all the marketing good practice jumbling around in my head, and incongruent voice that I could not write down. It all added up and I ran away for three days because I could not handle that pressure. When this journey came to its end and all the dust settled I knew exactly what I have to write about.

In the beginning commenting was my primary focus and it has waned abit. I have not yet found a solid way in order to have that be a painless process that does not involve spending two hours sifting through mostly irrelevant content, and that is part of today's challenge.

What has caused the most problems though is that I expected this to be easy, even though I knew from the start that it was not going to be easy. It is as if I thought myself different. I was expecting my knowledge and my charm to be what propels me to the heights of steemit , making some god-like claim to the throne...what a joke, I am nearly laughing at myself right now.

Nevertheless the point I am trying to get at is that all of these things are necessary, and If I really want these things that I say I want It is necessary that I find solutions for the obstacles in front of me. Whether it is the conflict within me concerning my art or whether it is how my art is received.

The fact is that I have not even been around here for very long, and I am not really that good at blogging. To myself my work is at least good enough to publish and I really am putting a lot of myself into this work.

But I have to face that there are people around here that have been doing it longer than me, and they have a better sense for what their audience enjoys. They also have a good grasp on the cadence of steemit itself.

If you want these things you have to navigate the obstacles, no amount of yapping and complaining about it is going to do the work involved. Start making decisions on basic stuff, like getting your approach to commenting down to a sort of science, where you know what to expect and weave yourself into the pockets of people that make up certain ecosystems. this is what it is about, you will reach a tipping point if you are consistent.

make sure you are aligned with your work, that what you are saying is an accurate reflection of where you are at, stick with that and carry on developing the hard factors that will change your position.

Thanks for the post brandon, we need these opportunities to look at ourselves and assess what is going on with ourselves.