The Path To Success
I have been here since the beginning of the blockchain and I have seen a lot of things. In fact, I have witnessed literally everything that has happened around here since mid 2016 and I have been very vocal about certain things more than once. I have also been short-sighted and I have spent a lot of time during my time here thinking about the best possible things I can do to maximize the rewards or my ROI.
This often happened during times I noticed that many others did nothing of value and where still able to cash out large amounts of tokens. I've experienced literally all the emotions that goes around this place. The only thing I haven't experience personally so far, is the feeling of being someone with large stake and to have real impact that can affect dozens of people in various ways in a second.
I have been a leader, a support pillar and I have been working hard to encourage, inspire and motivate others to participate, to produce high quality content and to be consistent regardless of the rewards they've been making. I have helped people over the minnow-threshold, I have given away tokens left and right to dozens of people and I have donated tokens to charity and for greater good more than once.
I know how it feels to be encouraged, and I know how important it is to encourage others around us because I have been on both sides of the fence. This is nothing new though, there are a bunch of people out there doing various things that are good for the community and many of them have done far better things than me. Some of them have done worse with more resources as well, but that's not the point..
The point is that people want to see green numbers. We've heard that since day 1. We want Hive to moon and we want to become crypto millionaires. We want Hive to reach the masses.
There has always been a lot of talk about the things we want, but there has been very little focus on doing things that actually helps us closer to these targets and goals we want to reach.
We obviously have a bunch of people who puts in a ton of hours doing what they believe is the best for the platform, and some of them are exceptional at the things they are doing..
- But overall, we lack commitment from people.
Most people are talkers and takers while the minority of the people are doers. We need more doers. We need people who are truly looking for long term gains rather than being short-sighted.
Comments, as an example, are the epitome of the long game. Are you commenting for the immediate payoff today or for the progress of the entire platform.
While I have already talked about engagement and how that can take us to $10, it's crucial to understand how powerful engagement actually is, and why engagement is what it takes to push us to new heights.
Engagement stands for an active, healthy and thriving place, which is exactly what content creators wants. It goes for both current creators and the potential creators who are looking at this blockchain as a place to be. We need comments all over this place to be attractive to the outside world, and that's why many of us are doing what we can to make comments. We are doers and we are here for the long term gains.
We want this place to succeed, but we are willing to put in time, hard work and effort to actually do something about it. We believe in the power engagement has, and we believe in the outcome that a healthy and active community will have in the future.
I don't mind cashing out at $2 and get a nice ROI, but why dump everything at $2 when I know that we could rather easily, if we combined our efforts, see prices closer to $10..?
It's just a matter of changing your perspective a bit. If you don't believe in the project, just dump and go. It's not a recommendation, but it's probably for the best as short-sighted people are often:
- Holding grudges.
- Burning bridges.
- Voice their opinions that don’t need to be voiced.
- Talk down to others they believe are less than them.
- Get big, then ignore the ones who helped them.
- Dwell on failure.
- Don’t communicate.
The truth is that we don't need any of that. It's a completely different thing to raise your concerns or to discuss how one bad thing could've been better, as long as the intent is to provide a better option or a solution for how to fix a problem. None of us can- or will do everything right immediately.
This is a journey for everyone, but short-sighted people are usually giving up after doing some of- or all of the things in the list above. We don't want you to quit, we just want you to change your perspective a bit.
I usually work for about 50-60 hours per week and I could still put my name in the leaderboards for most comments this week. It's far away from the crazy amount of numbers some others are putting up, but it's still more than a bunch of others.
I truly believe that engagement is the first stepping stone towards growth. Optimized content, organic traffic, evergreen content and marketing are important as well, in various ways. But I think that the most vital ingredient for us is engagement. That is what keeps the people here and that is what will attract and convince the outsiders to join.
- That's how we will reach the masses!
Let's combine our efforts and put in some numbers. Let's re-activate #initiative10 and boost the overall engagement again. We will benefit by it in the long haul, as long as we are consistent.
Consistency is key, everyone has said it a billion times..
- Prove that you mean it.