I was always motivated when I was following my ranking on https://hivebuzz.me/ranking. I even was among the 100 of the most ranked hivers. But, I took a long break and I lost my position. Now, I'm there the 128, but that's also good. I will keep growing no matter what. I hope I will not lose motivation again and I will reach better results everyday. It's great that I decided to power up all my earnings from now. That will make me grow even faster !
By the way, when we choose 50% / 50% in advanced settings in post option, it's more beneficial. You get more hive when you convert HBD to hive. I found out about that recently when I counted the hive powered up directly when I chose 100% power up. This useful could be useful for those who are using that option and thinking they will grow faster. But, I think that's right only if HBD is higher than hive in the price. If it's not so we may earn less hive in that case !
So, looking also at https://hivebuzz.me/@clixmoney , I see many details about my account :
I'm a fishie because I had a break and I didn't have that motivation to grow. I was broke and didn't know what to do. That was a long depression that last a year. I don't usually share my feeling to lot look weak, but I'm still a human and I should share that sometimes. That's not even easy to do, but I'll be courageous and do it. Anyway, I didn't give up at all and that's deserves respect. That's why you should always find something to make you stick to what you wanted. Even if that's a very thin thread.
So, as you see I wrote 2389 posts. So, it seems that I wrote more than a post a day if we count the average. I'm on the blockchain for 4 years, so 365 x 4 = 1460. It's almost 2 posts a day. That's really a lot. I feel like a master of creating content now. All of it is original and I put in each post my energy and time and share my experience and try to be the maximum valuable to the community. But, now I think I should try more. I should work harder to bring something new and better.
I also wrote 18641 comments and that's really a huge number. As you see I have 6 more times comments than I have posts. That's should be the recipe of doing well on this blockchain. Maybe that's not enough to do very well. I still need to write more comments than posts anyway. I remember once some challenge was created by 
So, as you see writing comments is even more important than creating posts. So, you are only creating posts and thinking that people will notice you, don't be demotivated in case your posts aren't rewarded. I was accepting that when I didn't have time to engage ! Take an example from me and other hivers who are so active. For example while looking for The Hive Engagement League to find the creator of that, I found a great example about 
65 AVERAGE UPVOTES PER POST. This was very important for me. I was always sure that my content will be supported somehow. That's why I think removing the automation of the curation at all is not a solution. Imagine writing for so long and getting 0 upvotes from that even being on the blockchain for a long time. That could of course kill your motivation. But, since I had people always supporting me and I knew all the time that I will be always supported if I'll create content, I kept sticking here and never lost hope to grow here. I was also doing my best to see me earning more upvotes, that's why I was working on the quality of the posts and to make them valuable as well.
27,840 AUTHOR REWARDS (HP) I could earn if I didn't lose that motivation. But I'm happy that I'm still here and I have big plans as well. The coincidence is that 
767 CURATION REWARDS (HP). Comparing to other numbers it's so low. But, that was because I didn't have that much to earn big curation rewards and I wasn't upvoting depending on the interest that will bring me, but upvoting depending on the content how it's good and the author how he/she is valuable. Because that's what should make the community strong in my opinion. That's make monetary aspect only a way to appreciate, but not the most important thing.
So, here is the full picture. I posted more than 2300 posts. Commented more than 18,000 times. Get more than 25,000 upvotes. From the beginning I could earn more than 54,000 hive. Besides that I always reply those who comment me, so I replied 17,000 times. Those are also comments, so in fact the number of all comments should be arround 35,000. In this case I commented more than 15 times more than I posted. So, in this case 15 comments or maybe even 20 after posting is better. But, it's also depend on who and what you comment. Here the experience maybe so needed. I also upvoted 160,000 times. Maybe the half is automatic, but I'll do my best to make more manual ones. I just don't like to leave the voting power 100% for a while, so those who are in need maybe missed. I think that's a responsability of every curator to never leave the voting power stagnated. That's also important to have a healthy active blockchain. We may have to do better to boost our activity here : https://blocktivity.info/ . We are on the 10 th position and that's not that bad, but trying harder for everyone will change the game. That may affect even the price.
I don't want to look rude, but what's TLOS ? Do you know anything about that ? Do they have social applications at least ? They are even ranked 301 in coinmarketcap comparing to hive 172. We should be more active than them. Maybe blocktivity has wrong numbers, I don't know.
Anyway, this is my fifth year on the blockchain and I will do my best to make it more active. If every single active member on it will work harder, we will see the change of course. The success is depending on each member of the community. Don't expect to give nothing and get everything. We are all here responsable for the success of this blockchain !
