Many people are doing badly on steemit and if they do not change their ways then they are in for a long downward trajectory- until they see the light . Moreover, steemit is not a get rich quick scheme or HYIP program: here is not a platform for quick money rather a place where you can build your brand , community, make new friends and learn from very smart people, which in return will lead to success. Below are points to note:

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Negativity / Whining : having a negative attitude towards the platform or whining about those on trending page will not help rather lead to failure. Reason is that those people invested time in building their brand- examples @timcliff , @papa-pepper , @sweetsssj , @lukestokes , @exyle and @slowwalker -including their contacts , consistent great contents and most importantly invested in steem power. Therefore, if you want to be successful, focus on posting great contents, show interest on others by commenting on their posts (great comments not F4F or upvote spams).
Attitude: Greed and bad attitude always lead to failure. Therefore do not comment on posts in order to get an upvote reward rather comment wisely by adding value to the posts and readers including post author will reward you without you begging for it- put succinctly, comment (prudently and not follow for follow or upvote for upvote) like a minnow, post like a dolphin (great contents) and curate like a whale.
Moreover, focus on the knowledge you will gain here ie the learning potential, building great contacts and fun –financial reward will always follow.
Content: many people do not put in effort in their post or videos on steemit rather consistently post a single picture of flower, animal, sun, moon , bees, flowers or sea and expect to make big money. Most worryingly, is to copy and paste other people contents (plagiarism) which will result to downvote by @cheetah , @sadkitten and @steemcleaners .
Steem power : steem power is the secret to success here due to its many advantages examples rewards from curation , post , interest, high return when there is increase in steem price and most importantly, power & authority in the future of social media. Moreover, you can get steem power by posting regularly, curation including buying steem and powering up- especially now that it is still cheap.

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