Sometimes when I start slacking off a little bit I start thinking I might be 2% McBitch. Then I just grind that out and keep crunching away. Rarrrrrrrrr
Your comment made me think of an interesting point. I get lazy, I get unmotivated, and I slack just like everybody else.
I think sometimes we look at other people who we view as motivated and think they are just naturally that way, as if it comes easy to them. I think everyone faces the same challenges, battles the same uncertainty or laziness, even the Lebron James and the Eric Thomas's and the Tony Robbins, it's just that they refuse to accept defeat and like you said keep crunching away.
I think it's unrealistic to think that we'll never slack or never have lazy moments but I think the key is to avoid them as much as possible and to do our best to snap out of it and keep chugging along.
Yeah it isn't easy and it would be easier to quit at most things. I refuse to have anything but an extra ordinary life. The scariest thing for me is to have a normal life.
This is me in business and scooping up those crypto coins! Rarrrr!!!!
This is great advice. It is easy to look at the blog rewards of the Whales and feel jealous. They however have worked to get their reputation and i'm sure haven't always got it right. There seems to be a lot more posts popping up that don't have any personal effort applied to them, and it's easy to fall int the habit of just reposting something that you find on you tube. I think you have to be motivated to make an impact and be prepared to put in a little bit of work. I don't always write the best posts, but am quickly learning that laziness doesn't pay off. The Whales do post great content, and I am in awe of some of their skills..........
More great advice, R for R. I don't know who these people are and haven't seen them around. I am in for the long haul and in fact my whole life right now is about sowing seeds with blind faith in the future. I can see you've already taken off bigtime on here and I'm not surprised all of your great content and your inspirational attitude would be a big hit on Steemit. As I get more into crypto and all of my little side hustle projects I'm going to blog about them here.
Hey buddy, love the comment, I think you hit the nail on the head with blind faith. There's no gurantee Steemit will take off and be something huge and it's very possible by the time that you or I eventually become whales maybe this site folds or Steem is at a penny, nobody knows but I'm willing to invest some time and effort and gamble that this is going to turn into something huge and even if it doesn't it's not like we've lost. We've learend a lot more about blockchain technology and the web 3.0 which I'm sure will help us down the road as that's the direction things are going, we've become better writers, we've built up a bunch of content we can post elsewhere, I don't really see us losing out even if steemit doesn't get big for us.
looking forward to some of your posts about side hustles and stuff. what kinda stuff are you into?
Thanks so much! I totally agree. I've learned more about cryptocurrencies since joining Steemit than I'd ever known before and now I have so many resources to learn from that I know I'm going to be able to get really into this.
I've been working for affiliate marketing companies for the past 15 years - not doing my own affiliate marketing, but earning a salary and commission from selling marketing services. The irony is I have little practice doing any of it myself. But my friend and I are working on some campaigns now on the side for the first time, learning media buying and building our own sites. It's going pretty slowly but it's a long term play so again it's like planting seeds. I also asked him to join me in my Merch account (if it ever gets approved lol) and we've come up with around 7 designs now. We mocked them up ourselves using Canva and we're going to pay a designer to just polish up the layouts and make them better designs.
I've considered all sorts of different business ideas, though I have no clue how to do them. I am just exploring one or two ideas at a time. Another friend drives for Uber and we talked about starting an Uber fleet. My main worry for that is where the heck to park the cars in NYC if we lose a driver!
I have ideas about theme restaurants or preferably, private dining clubs, but I think that one's a bit too far out of my reach for right now. It's a brutal business (my cousin owned a restaurant in Manhattan for many years). But someday I might start a club as more of a hobby and see what happens. I'd like to have a dining club where we recreate menus that were served in the 1800s, like published menus from famous occasions and/or from early cruise ships. I would work with hunters and farmers from a local radius to get game animals as that was a larger part of people's dining tables in the 1800s. If things got really crazy and I had the wherewithal, I'd love to have this in an old mansion with some acreage around it maybe in Upstate New York and have the guests park their cars in a lot that is hidden from the main approach to the mansion. They would follow a path around a row of trees and come out onto a large open drive area in front of the mansion where they would be picked up in a horse drawn carriage and driven around to the front entrance.
I was an artist as a kid - all I did was draw and paint. I stopped doing it a long time ago and I'd really like to get back to that.
Thanks again for your positive attitude on here. I'm willing to put a lot more into Steemit and we shall all see what comes out of it
I would agree with you Rebel, but most of the whales on here are either famous, have tits, or bought there way to the top, so I don't know about your advice here.
I am following you closely, because you're the most stubborn person I know on here. If you stop blogging, I know this isn't a place where extremely motivated people, no matter how passionate they may be might still not make a dent here on this platform.
Another serious flaw of this platform is that your content is dead after 7 days, and there is 100% no incentive for people to interact with content that is older than 7 days, plus Steemit stores it away forever after that, and it is essentially no longer yours. You can't edit it, you can't delete it, you can't even update it... it's just dead.
If I were you, I would treat this like Twitter. Only post time-sensitive material on here, like news and updates, and if you do post anything evergreen, make sure to add affiliate links or links back to your own properties as well mate. Oh, and post mostly blockchain related content too... they eat that shit up on here.
Hey buddy, thanks for the post you bring up some legit points. In terms of whales who bought their way into power. I do see a lot of them as when I look at SteemitWhales I see people with tons of Steem Power who have made few to no posts or who have low reputation scores I'm guessing because they purchased rather than earned their Steem but I don't really see a problem with that, or at least I can't knock them because they had the foresight to buy in early when Steem was cheap in the same way alot of smart people bought Bitcoin back when it was worth pennies.
I do totally agree with you about the 7 day thing. Is that 100% true you don't earn after 7 days? As with a lot of things on Steemit oftentimes it seems like nobody on here even more experienced guys know 100% sure how things work lol. That said I have also heard the 7 day thing and even made a post about it. That does really bother me as I'm all about recurring passive income or things which you can do one time and which will continue to earn and the way Steemit is setup pretty much as soon as you take a break or stop posting you have a trickle of income for 7 days and then nothing so I definately feel you there.
I don't really like that policy myself but just to play devils advocate it does keep someone from being able to upload their entire Youtube catalog of 500 or 1000 videos and then just abandon the platform so I think that is maybe the one good reason I can see for having a policy like that.
This site is still a baby it could become something huge or could become a big flop though it does seem like we're getting a lot of new users on here evereyday, I think I recently heard 12k new accounts per week.
My reasons for being on here are this. I'm enjoying the platform but also enjoy the ability to potentially make money on here. Another reason I'm really active on here is on my YOutube channel when I talk about entrepreneurship or ecommerce I think a lot of people are kinda like easy for you to say you already have this business built up and these systems in place.
I think Steemit, and also Amazon Merch for that matter are two things where I lack experience and skills and where any of my past work isn't really going to benefit me much so I'm on a level playing field with my Youtube audience. I want to kind of inspire them that I can start from the bottom and build somehting up right before their eyes and basically say see if I can do this there's no reason you can't start a successful shopify store or fba business or consulting business or whatever else.
This is so fucking true it gives me the chills. Motivating words in deed, @rulesforrebels. Thank you so much. As a rookie here in Steemit, and a spanish speaker with a no so big audience, your words means a lot. Keep it coming!
You write because you want to share a story, your story, an insight or a tip... basically it is your value you want to share. If someone likes it, they'll comment, upvote or resteem, or all 3. But that is not why you are sharing, you want to give...because those who embrace personal development, KNOW it is all about giving. Those who don't give, will never receive either.
True words man. Doing something just for the sake of the goal is not productive and it keeps people ignorant to the fact that life only exists in the present moment. Doing something for a goal is basically a constant message that you are not good enough and stems from a "lack" or "poverty" mindset. It is important that people do things that make them feel accomplished in this moment. Not because one day you might attain something.
Do things because you want to. That is the secret to planting good "seeds" that could turn into something amazing.
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@rulesforrebels once again your content doesn´t dissapoint me whether is on youtube or steemit. True people are absolutly wrong if they take Steemit as the new Facebook or Instagram...where the content is pretty superficial in many cases and banal. Here well elaborated posts are given credit and not any nosense is viral, besides being an early adopter will give you an avantage to be ahead of the pack, otherwise the only way up is digging and digging...
Love it. Right on the money.
I used to be in the affiliate marketing business and saw hundreds of people with the skills, brains and talent to make a living at it who would quit early.
I could literally see the groundwork they laid and could tell they were right about to break through just as they were throwing in the towel.
It became a rule rather than an exception that most people quit right before they're about to make it.
Hang on just a little longer than you think you need to and you'll get there more often than not.
The other point about whales:
Out of nearly 50,000 affiliates only a little less than 1000 were actually doing the work necessary to earn real money. Nearly half those were actually making it. Many more than that were complaining about scams etc.
You need to have a better approach, a better idea and/or be willing to go further than 99% to make it to the 1%
Love the comment buddy so true. I do pretty well with affiliate marketing myself and when I talk with and look at other affiliate marketers I see people who a re much more skilled than myself in terms of better web designers, better e-mail marketers, basically people who have more and better skills than myself but who money wise aren't doing as well as I'm doing adn it's like you said especially with affiliate marketing its not something that happens overnight. I started dabbling in this stuff like back in 2009 didn't earn anything of any significance until probably 2013 and things didn't really start jumping off until the past year.
I think part of the process is developing skills, when I first started out I barely knew how to create a banner for a blog but over the years slowly learned to write, learned different marketing strategies, etc. Even once I developed some concrete skills I still had to learn for different niches what works and what doesn't work so it can be a long journey. I love affiliate marketing though and love passive income so it's totally worth it.
Hey guys I was really inspired to make this post and I think it's a very timely one as well as I think with the recent fork and the surge in new members, myself included I'm only on here about 20 days thus far, I think this is a message a lot of people should hear.
This post seems to be picking up Steem, pardon the pun again, if you enjoyed it please upvote and resteem so more people can hear the message and so more people stick around on here.
This is right on point for sure!! I'm a minnow, and I have only been on the platform for a week. I have an idea of where I want to take my account in terms of content. I'm just wondering if you have any advice on establishing my account on the platform. For the meantime I want to focus on adding as much value as I can, any financial gain would be an added bonus.
Sometimes when I start slacking off a little bit I start thinking I might be 2% McBitch. Then I just grind that out and keep crunching away. Rarrrrrrrrr
Your comment made me think of an interesting point. I get lazy, I get unmotivated, and I slack just like everybody else.
I think sometimes we look at other people who we view as motivated and think they are just naturally that way, as if it comes easy to them. I think everyone faces the same challenges, battles the same uncertainty or laziness, even the Lebron James and the Eric Thomas's and the Tony Robbins, it's just that they refuse to accept defeat and like you said keep crunching away.
I think it's unrealistic to think that we'll never slack or never have lazy moments but I think the key is to avoid them as much as possible and to do our best to snap out of it and keep chugging along.
Yeah it isn't easy and it would be easier to quit at most things. I refuse to have anything but an extra ordinary life. The scariest thing for me is to have a normal life.
This is me in business and scooping up those crypto coins! Rarrrr!!!!
This is great advice. It is easy to look at the blog rewards of the Whales and feel jealous. They however have worked to get their reputation and i'm sure haven't always got it right. There seems to be a lot more posts popping up that don't have any personal effort applied to them, and it's easy to fall int the habit of just reposting something that you find on you tube. I think you have to be motivated to make an impact and be prepared to put in a little bit of work. I don't always write the best posts, but am quickly learning that laziness doesn't pay off. The Whales do post great content, and I am in awe of some of their skills..........
More great advice, R for R. I don't know who these people are and haven't seen them around. I am in for the long haul and in fact my whole life right now is about sowing seeds with blind faith in the future. I can see you've already taken off bigtime on here and I'm not surprised all of your great content and your inspirational attitude would be a big hit on Steemit. As I get more into crypto and all of my little side hustle projects I'm going to blog about them here.
Hey buddy, love the comment, I think you hit the nail on the head with blind faith. There's no gurantee Steemit will take off and be something huge and it's very possible by the time that you or I eventually become whales maybe this site folds or Steem is at a penny, nobody knows but I'm willing to invest some time and effort and gamble that this is going to turn into something huge and even if it doesn't it's not like we've lost. We've learend a lot more about blockchain technology and the web 3.0 which I'm sure will help us down the road as that's the direction things are going, we've become better writers, we've built up a bunch of content we can post elsewhere, I don't really see us losing out even if steemit doesn't get big for us.
looking forward to some of your posts about side hustles and stuff. what kinda stuff are you into?
Thanks so much! I totally agree. I've learned more about cryptocurrencies since joining Steemit than I'd ever known before and now I have so many resources to learn from that I know I'm going to be able to get really into this.
I've been working for affiliate marketing companies for the past 15 years - not doing my own affiliate marketing, but earning a salary and commission from selling marketing services. The irony is I have little practice doing any of it myself. But my friend and I are working on some campaigns now on the side for the first time, learning media buying and building our own sites. It's going pretty slowly but it's a long term play so again it's like planting seeds. I also asked him to join me in my Merch account (if it ever gets approved lol) and we've come up with around 7 designs now. We mocked them up ourselves using Canva and we're going to pay a designer to just polish up the layouts and make them better designs.
I've considered all sorts of different business ideas, though I have no clue how to do them. I am just exploring one or two ideas at a time. Another friend drives for Uber and we talked about starting an Uber fleet. My main worry for that is where the heck to park the cars in NYC if we lose a driver!
I have ideas about theme restaurants or preferably, private dining clubs, but I think that one's a bit too far out of my reach for right now. It's a brutal business (my cousin owned a restaurant in Manhattan for many years). But someday I might start a club as more of a hobby and see what happens. I'd like to have a dining club where we recreate menus that were served in the 1800s, like published menus from famous occasions and/or from early cruise ships. I would work with hunters and farmers from a local radius to get game animals as that was a larger part of people's dining tables in the 1800s. If things got really crazy and I had the wherewithal, I'd love to have this in an old mansion with some acreage around it maybe in Upstate New York and have the guests park their cars in a lot that is hidden from the main approach to the mansion. They would follow a path around a row of trees and come out onto a large open drive area in front of the mansion where they would be picked up in a horse drawn carriage and driven around to the front entrance.
I was an artist as a kid - all I did was draw and paint. I stopped doing it a long time ago and I'd really like to get back to that.
Thanks again for your positive attitude on here. I'm willing to put a lot more into Steemit and we shall all see what comes out of it
I would agree with you Rebel, but most of the whales on here are either famous, have tits, or bought there way to the top, so I don't know about your advice here.
I am following you closely, because you're the most stubborn person I know on here. If you stop blogging, I know this isn't a place where extremely motivated people, no matter how passionate they may be might still not make a dent here on this platform.
Another serious flaw of this platform is that your content is dead after 7 days, and there is 100% no incentive for people to interact with content that is older than 7 days, plus Steemit stores it away forever after that, and it is essentially no longer yours. You can't edit it, you can't delete it, you can't even update it... it's just dead.
If I were you, I would treat this like Twitter. Only post time-sensitive material on here, like news and updates, and if you do post anything evergreen, make sure to add affiliate links or links back to your own properties as well mate. Oh, and post mostly blockchain related content too... they eat that shit up on here.
Hey buddy, thanks for the post you bring up some legit points. In terms of whales who bought their way into power. I do see a lot of them as when I look at SteemitWhales I see people with tons of Steem Power who have made few to no posts or who have low reputation scores I'm guessing because they purchased rather than earned their Steem but I don't really see a problem with that, or at least I can't knock them because they had the foresight to buy in early when Steem was cheap in the same way alot of smart people bought Bitcoin back when it was worth pennies.
I do totally agree with you about the 7 day thing. Is that 100% true you don't earn after 7 days? As with a lot of things on Steemit oftentimes it seems like nobody on here even more experienced guys know 100% sure how things work lol. That said I have also heard the 7 day thing and even made a post about it. That does really bother me as I'm all about recurring passive income or things which you can do one time and which will continue to earn and the way Steemit is setup pretty much as soon as you take a break or stop posting you have a trickle of income for 7 days and then nothing so I definately feel you there.
I don't really like that policy myself but just to play devils advocate it does keep someone from being able to upload their entire Youtube catalog of 500 or 1000 videos and then just abandon the platform so I think that is maybe the one good reason I can see for having a policy like that.
This site is still a baby it could become something huge or could become a big flop though it does seem like we're getting a lot of new users on here evereyday, I think I recently heard 12k new accounts per week.
My reasons for being on here are this. I'm enjoying the platform but also enjoy the ability to potentially make money on here. Another reason I'm really active on here is on my YOutube channel when I talk about entrepreneurship or ecommerce I think a lot of people are kinda like easy for you to say you already have this business built up and these systems in place.
I think Steemit, and also Amazon Merch for that matter are two things where I lack experience and skills and where any of my past work isn't really going to benefit me much so I'm on a level playing field with my Youtube audience. I want to kind of inspire them that I can start from the bottom and build somehting up right before their eyes and basically say see if I can do this there's no reason you can't start a successful shopify store or fba business or consulting business or whatever else.
This is so fucking true it gives me the chills. Motivating words in deed, @rulesforrebels. Thank you so much. As a rookie here in Steemit, and a spanish speaker with a no so big audience, your words means a lot. Keep it coming!
"Learn to grind because you're a bad mutha fckr!!!" ♥ that man.... Glad to see U on here. I used to watch your old YT vids. #Props!
You write because you want to share a story, your story, an insight or a tip... basically it is your value you want to share. If someone likes it, they'll comment, upvote or resteem, or all 3. But that is not why you are sharing, you want to give...because those who embrace personal development, KNOW it is all about giving. Those who don't give, will never receive either.
True words man. Doing something just for the sake of the goal is not productive and it keeps people ignorant to the fact that life only exists in the present moment. Doing something for a goal is basically a constant message that you are not good enough and stems from a "lack" or "poverty" mindset. It is important that people do things that make them feel accomplished in this moment. Not because one day you might attain something.
Do things because you want to. That is the secret to planting good "seeds" that could turn into something amazing.
Great comment kenan so true
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@rulesforrebels once again your content doesn´t dissapoint me whether is on youtube or steemit. True people are absolutly wrong if they take Steemit as the new Facebook or Instagram...where the content is pretty superficial in many cases and banal. Here well elaborated posts are given credit and not any nosense is viral, besides being an early adopter will give you an avantage to be ahead of the pack, otherwise the only way up is digging and digging...
Love it. Right on the money.
I used to be in the affiliate marketing business and saw hundreds of people with the skills, brains and talent to make a living at it who would quit early.
I could literally see the groundwork they laid and could tell they were right about to break through just as they were throwing in the towel.
It became a rule rather than an exception that most people quit right before they're about to make it.
Hang on just a little longer than you think you need to and you'll get there more often than not.
The other point about whales:
Out of nearly 50,000 affiliates only a little less than 1000 were actually doing the work necessary to earn real money. Nearly half those were actually making it. Many more than that were complaining about scams etc.
You need to have a better approach, a better idea and/or be willing to go further than 99% to make it to the 1%
Love the comment buddy so true. I do pretty well with affiliate marketing myself and when I talk with and look at other affiliate marketers I see people who a re much more skilled than myself in terms of better web designers, better e-mail marketers, basically people who have more and better skills than myself but who money wise aren't doing as well as I'm doing adn it's like you said especially with affiliate marketing its not something that happens overnight. I started dabbling in this stuff like back in 2009 didn't earn anything of any significance until probably 2013 and things didn't really start jumping off until the past year.
I think part of the process is developing skills, when I first started out I barely knew how to create a banner for a blog but over the years slowly learned to write, learned different marketing strategies, etc. Even once I developed some concrete skills I still had to learn for different niches what works and what doesn't work so it can be a long journey. I love affiliate marketing though and love passive income so it's totally worth it.
Great comment dude
Good post, very motivating. It's nice to get a kick in the pencil once in a while..
..............billytwohearts
Love it... "that's why the whales are whales, because they were lions."
Hey guys I was really inspired to make this post and I think it's a very timely one as well as I think with the recent fork and the surge in new members, myself included I'm only on here about 20 days thus far, I think this is a message a lot of people should hear.
This post seems to be picking up Steem, pardon the pun again, if you enjoyed it please upvote and resteem so more people can hear the message and so more people stick around on here.
Thanks again for all the support you guys rock!
I really needed to read such post! thank you! :)
This is right on point for sure!! I'm a minnow, and I have only been on the platform for a week. I have an idea of where I want to take my account in terms of content. I'm just wondering if you have any advice on establishing my account on the platform. For the meantime I want to focus on adding as much value as I can, any financial gain would be an added bonus.
Thank You! Without the daily work you don't get the gold... Resteemit!
Great post!