Exactly. If you see the potential for Steemit as a platform then the long game is just as important as having a trending post (if not more so). If you build up your reputation, post consistently good work and stick with it is sure to benefit you eventually.
If you look at the big Youtube stars as an example they didn't achieve success overnight it took most of them years of striving and persistence. Even then there is no guarantee but if you don't take this step then you can only blame yourself for failure.
The Beatles got turned down by multiple record companies before they hit it big. They didn't give up and kept playing, honing their art and getting better.
Imagine if they had just given up at the first hurdle because they didn't get instant success - we would have lost out on a huge amount of outstanding music and modern culture might be completely different.
True. Persistence is the missing piece that few really put their minds to. It's hard work to look failure in the eye, day after day. But some things are worth fighting for, every day. Thank you for always providing such value in your comments. You made me re-think the way I was commenting actually...
Appreciate your advice Stellabelle! Trying to get this out there ----> @nycactivism . Please look. It's a calendar of NYC activism related events! Hopefully can get it to REsteem! Many thanks again for your advice. Just did my introduceyourself post 3 days ago! Will start posting more photos....
@thecryptofiend, great reminders to not give up even in the face of difficult times. :) I'm encouraged.
There is this really important bit, that they had in that old childrens song here in Russia. It is a song about friends. And it has the line that goes something like "And even if [one] falls down, just gets up and goes again". Amd the context is that is because they are surrounded by friends. So that is a good thing for thread starter (my bad, I actually ment @ratel) to understand. If you treat people around as friends, it is eaiser to get more friends.
And here is the song I was talking about.
Nice, even if you don't understand any word. The pictures speak for theirself. Full of love and friendship. Reminds me of the artstyle of "The Mole" by Zdeněk Miler. My father had this film projector for such film rolls with many episodes of DEFA movies including also The Hare and the Wolf. Fond memories of my childhood. Me and my brother watched the movies with drawn curtains because the low light intensity of the lamp inside not comparable to todays technology. The projector was rattling like a sewing machine and was hot after minutes, smelt of melted plastic and lubricant. Sometimes the film teared apart and my father took a few minutes to bond the film and we were bored from waiting. The mole and his friends had always that positive attitude no matter what happened and there was a lot going on in the woods! ;)
Thank you for sharing, i'll ask who knows that russian movie.