Your article is very motivational and some of your response comments are exceptional.

I would like to add my own experience, even though up until now it has not been explosive, it has begun to move more quickly. I've been here almost 8 months, actively participating on a daily basis. I made some errors by posting my introduction too early and not learning how to make an effective introduction, not formatting my content well until I finally learned how, etc. Despite all that, I'm still doing (in my mind) quite well for someone who hasn't been here from the very early stages of Steem.

I run a weekly contest intended to support those with smaller accounts and it struggled to get noticed, but in the last 2 weeks there has been quite an increase in the number of participants. I suppose that could be because my VP is now giving out decent rewards and I up-vote all valid entries so that everyone that participates gets at least an up-vote. With the value of the SBD up so high, even my relatively small prize pool is also worth more now.

I also run a daily zombie adventure game. Although the game takes a lot of my time to manage it, I think it ads value to the platform in that people can earn rewards simply from having fun playing an on-line game! Due to all the time I spend managing the game, I have not been able to create many other articles, but I'm still growing my account faster now than I have ever done in the past.

It seemed like forever to gather my first 100 Steem, but once I reached that goal, I attained my 2nd goal of 500 Steem very quickly. My next goal is to have 1,000 Steem and I'm confident that will happen soon enough. I think it is like starting a snowball; at first it takes a lot of effort to get the ball started, but once it reaches a certain size, it picks up more and more and gets bigger faster, simply by keeping it moving. If it rolls down a hill, it could grow huge all by itself! That "hill" would be the price of Steem going up!