I think it's very crucial (especially this year) to accrue as much steem power from authoring as possible. I myself am guilty of posting less often than I used to and it's mainly due to time limitations due to my full time job and busy schedule. I can always come up with some excuse why I don't have time or motivation to post but those excuses are not always valid.

I'm trying to get back to posting at least every other day because even if the price of STEEM is down I'm still accruing SP which could be very valuable and harder to earn in the future as the platform grows and the user base expands. One post per day is my ideal amount although I sometimes wish I had more material I felt was worth sharing and could do multiple posts in a day. This just isn't feasible unless I were to just throw together some low quality post in a couple of minutes which I just can't bring myself to do for so many reasons.

What I'm doing now and in the foreseeable future is converting my SBD earnings to STEEM and powering them up. I want to have 10K by the end of this year at least and it's kind of hard for me to pay $3-5 for STEEM when I was buying it hand over fist for just a dollar each several months ago. So I rely on consolidating my rewards into SP and also earning more through delegation rewards and powering those up too. I like to think some day I'll see this as one of the best decisions I've ever made financially if the price targets I've seen from some people who do have credibility are hit in the coming years. It could literally be life-changing. It just requires some extra time spent writing and having faith that the time investment is a wise decision (which I believe it very much is).