Happy to see a (kind of) lol positive post. I came into this fully aware that it was going to be difficult. I am also treating it as a second job, spending hundreds of hours over the last month on this website. Having never written content before it took me a long time to even get the courage to start writing.
I promised myself that I would try my best for 1 year. My goal is to buy and earn a combined 1000 SP. Ive had some revelations over the last couple days. I spent pretty much all of yesterday reading all the negative posts about Steemit and how people don't think it will survive. We are all in this for the same reason. Potential money and a vision of the future where we are paid for our voice. Do we know if SMTs or Hivemind will make the price of Steem moon? No. Do we know if Steemit will become mainstream? No... Do we know if the marketcap for all cryptos will go up? No.
Passions run hot about Steemit and the success of this platform. We are not only investing our money, but our time. The longer that you are here the more doubt some people will have because of those two investments. Progress that has been made is hard to see, and the future seems too far away. Thats true about everything having to do with cryptos. We want it now...not years from now.
But in my life the only time I was successful in anything was when I was overly optimistic, so I have decided I am going to feel that way about Steemit. If I dont, i wont be able to continue at the rate I am now.