2MONTHS PASSED ON STEEMIT: MY LITTLE STEEMIT STORY

Good day steemians!!...
It's an awesome day today for me personally and for the world in general.
Today is valentine's day and today is officially it's my 2months anniversary on steemit. I'm super ecstatic. I look back to how I started my steemit journey and I'm like wow!! How did I get to this point in a short space of time? I can clearly remember receiving lectures on steemit from Hive account@xpressng, in reality I owe that girl more than I've given. 4 months after I was done with college, I was just a broke little boy with big dreams, How those dreams would be accomplished I never knew. On that fateful day 14th December 2017, a day that has stuck to my head like glue, I saw a Facebook post from Hive account@xpressng, she just said something like, slide into my dm to learn how to make money online. Immediately without hesitation I slid into her dm and that's how the journey started. I'll say seeing that facebook post initially was my first miracle and my first step into my breakthrough I've earnestly prayed for for many years. I normally don't just scroll slowly on facebook posts I just scroll really fast and I'm out. That day was different, I scrolled through posts gently and that was how I saw the post. The second miracle was my acceptance, I'm naturally skeptical about all these make money online B.S, however that I totally yielded to the post and slid into Hive account@xpressng dm.
Enough with the long story. So I registered and I got to steeming.

---------------------------------FIRST MONTH ON STEEMIT--------------------------

My first month steemit was awesome. A lot of minnows don't get to say that though, because they weren't able to penetrate into the social space on steemit. I was unable to too. Like every other minnow I faced tremendous challenges. Creating good articles and not getting anything out of it was really discouraging. People react differently to things that happen to them though. I didn't let the discouragement overwhelm me, in fact, it was the pedestal I climbed in getting to this point so far. Discouragement led me to seek out things that I would not have known if I just made a post and get good rewards from them, my knowledge of steemit though still little would have been limited to just that.
In my search for a breakthrough on steemit, I took decisions or a major decision rather. I decided that i was going to pay massive attention to everything that goes on in the whatsapp community I found myself in. The #steembees community on whatsapp created by Hive account@ewuoso, I like to call him Daddy. I noticed that most of the admins in the group had a story to tell about their steemit journey and in each story they told, they dropped tips that'll help a minnow like me proceed further. After just 1 week of paying attention to details, my steemit career started to improve.
My major breakout came when Hive account@onos who is a utopian mod and also a member of the steembees community offered to conduct a tutorial on the group about the utopian platform That night I opened my eyes to everything that was said and at first it was really difficult to assimilate, but being the kind of person that I'm, I sought to explore the dynamics of the platform after being taught the basics and I excelled in it. Just learning the utopian processes wasn't enough, I had to put in good input to get good output and so I started my utopian journey and it has been amazing ever since. I had set a target of approved contributions I wanted on utopian platform before the end of January and I even beat the target twice. On my first month my reputation had risen to the big fifty(50). I'll say that's an achievement.

--------------------------------------SECOND MONTH ON STEEMIT--------------------------

My second month on steemit started officially 14th of January which is a day before my birthday. Riding on the back of my utopian success. I felt I had fully aligned with the social space. Big fat lie!! I still had a lot to do and a lot to discover. So I didn't stop searching and paying attention to details. I still advanced in my utopian obsession and got more approved posts. From then till today I've had over 30 approved contributions on utopian. It's nothing compared to other people but I'm not in a competition with anybody.

So my journey on steemit has greatly improved, a lot of special thanks goes to these few men
Hive account@ewuoso
Hive account@onos
Hive account@tony-duke
Hive account@prechi
that have taken their time out to thoroughly boost my career with their unending support in terms of knowledge they've shared. A lot of people tend to withhold knowledge of success from their friends, because they sometimes feel that that friend may outshine them. That was not the case of these persons I listed above. They've shared uncommon knowledge capable of taking my steemit career beyond the limits of my imagination, and I'm mostly grateful to them.
I remember vivdly a statement made by Hive account@ewuoso the day he was giving a tutorial and I quote

If I get money and all my guys get money, everything go make sense, no need to beg.

In English it means if he prospers and everybody around him prospers there will be no need to seek for help or alms from him.

Hive account@ewuoso has proved to be selfless and although his mostly misunderstood he's the nicest person ever.

That statement he(Hive account@ewuoso) made strengthened my resolve to help some struggling minnows like me with the knowledge I've gained from him. Now I do my best to try and assist minnows in the best way I can by telling them how to go about the utopian platform, I offer advoces and encouragements too. It's really not easy being a minnow. Many of us get discouraged most times and several times we feel like quitting.

I've been able to affect few lives with my little knowledge and they include Hive account@anyadaniel who's doing really well on utopian, and also my female bestie on steemit Hive account@julietisrael and then there's Hive account@kweenzykruzy.

Attending to these people about steemit related issues has not only helped them but me also, because it drives me to learn more to be able to help out more.

I've also engaged in promotion duties, though online. I've been able to reach out to over 5 thousand persons online with the steemit gospel also other steem related platforms.

--------------------------------MY ADVICE TO MINNOWS LIKE ME--------------------------

A lot of minnows meet me for tips on how I got this far within the space of two(2) months. It's like I'll always say. I tell them that consistency is the first and major key to finding success on steemit. That consistency infused with diligence is a breakthrough tool. Most newbies think life on steemit is really easy, it is easy but not at the early stages, except they are whales in the guise of minnows. I spend time to educate people I introduce to steemit that the journey is a gradual process. I called it LITTLE CONSISTENT DROPS
Also another tip is being an active member of the community or any other community they are. Without the support and backing of people we can't really go far. Lastly, I tell them to pay attention to every details in the community. At times it can get really noisy and rowdy, but in the midst of those rowdiness and noise, secret underlying tips are being dropped. These are the secrets to my success thus far. I'm not where I'd ideally like to be but I'm getting somewhere.

---------------------------MY THIRD MONTH ON STEEMIT STARTS TODAY-----------------
As my third month on steemit starts today. I have duly prayed to God to take me to higher pedestals and this I'm sure He'll do. More persistence and consistence and diligence is gonna cause this.

Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in kodeblacc’s hand.”
Zechariah 4:10 New Living Translation (NLT)

I don't have a lot on my wallet right now, but to celebrate two months on steemit and also today being valentine's day, I'll give the first person who comments on this post the 1sbd lying in my wallet right now.

I'm still here I'm still steeming it!!