Ten months ago I wrote this piece about learning to recognize and celebrate our victories and besides wanting you to read it, I also want to point out to you the payout my post got.
Go read the post and then check out the payout, I'll wait for you here, no rush.
I was there. I don't mean to act as if I'm already at the top, I'm just saying this so you know it's possible, it's doable to be a minnow in the beginning and keep growing every day until you feel satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
One of the most important parts of my Steem life is portrayed in the link I asked you to read at the beginning of this post. Celebrating the small victories... There is nothing wrong in being happy for "silly" things; you have every right to pat yourself in the back every time you feel like you achieved something; you are entitled to feel good about yourself once you reach a goal you set for yourself.
I mean, if you don't do it for yourself, who else is going to do it for you?
It's great when we read a post that encourages us to keep trying to "make it" on Steemit but the truth is, most of the drive and encouragement we'll find in life will come from within ourselves.
That's why I'm celebrating this silly achievement. That's why even though I don't really make milestone posts (last one was 3 months ago) very often, I do try to make them every once in a while, especially when I feel like I need some encouragement.
There you go Eric, nicely done, you have five number ones in your follower base. Cool story.
I say it's silly because having that amount of followers doesn't have any real meaning, it's just a number. It may be big but it's not a significant number like 5,000 or 10,000 or 25,000 but somehow, for me it holds a somewhat silly but important milestone. I have 11111 followers, and I want to celebrate that small, silly and weird milestone.
But hey, I would love for you to join in this little dynamic. Why don't you reply here in the comment section one of the achievements you've had in the past few days, an achievement that you might think is not worth celebrating. Share it with me and anyone who reads the comment section. Let it out, feel good about yourself.
Who knows, perhaps all we need is to read other success stories to get some encouragement for ourselves. Who knows, perhaps all this positivity can lead us somewhere :)
I will be reading all the replies and most of my voting power for tomorrow will be used to vote on the replies here, after all, we are all contributing to the good vibe, we are all part of the encouragement that may or may not come out of the comment section.
I'm not really a fan of keeping the liquid rewards of milestone posts, so all the liquid rewards from this post will go to the roadtosteemfest surprise I have prepared in a two months.