I'm never sure if I actually hustle enough. I think part of the reason why I always have this question in my mind is because at times where my effort was absolutely at 100% I know that it wasn't sustainable so when I'm not on that level I start wondering if I'm getting soft. I'm a lot better at gauging my athletic performance as a metric of knowing where I'm at. With business it is a lot harder. Also comparing to other people is a really toxic situation in a lot of ways as well. Just even thinking about this post I started thinking about different entrepreneurs and started making excuses for why they got to where they did. I mean WTF? Some of it might be truth but just me thinking about it I started coming up with excuses of why I'm "behind" them....etc.

Since I live in Tucson I have seen workers from Mexico work super hard. They wouldn't talk they would just work and it was almost like a machine. They took pride in their work and it is often hard to know how much they are getting ahead because they might have to send money home to family members and have other obligations. They are working hard but I don't know how much of it is a smart hustle oftentimes.

The Hardest I Have Worked On Steemit

When I first got on Steemit the price was spiked way up and I was able to get and account and then they had to shut down new accounts for awhile so it was like a walled garden in here. It was still difficult but I was going crazy trying to produce content and of course I was getting frustrated. I worked super hard then and would wake up and instantly jump out of bed and run to the computer and start working on stuff. Same thing last summer. When the price spiked I was trying to go hard and was working on the stuff really hard. Again during the boom in December and January I was working crazy hard.

I can honestly tell you I'm not working as hard right now as I was during those times.

I'm trying to figure out if that is a natural reaction that is good for me or if it hurts me in the long run. It doesn't make sense to spin my wheels but in a lot of regards I think we are seeing a trend that it is getting harder and harder to get STEEM Power. Even around June of 2017 when prices were around $2 or so I was able to put up anything and I would earn an automatic $10. Sounds decent but what if a person is trying to live on it. Let's say you have to make $100 for the day and so you are going to have to bust out 10 posts. There becomes a diminishing returns because you partially blow everyone's voting power doing that. I did it a couple of times but it wasn't sustainable at all. Now with prices around $3.50 I will automatically get around $4 for a post which isn't really that great considering how much my account is worth. That being said I'm hoping to step up my game especially on the live streaming front. I'm seeing other DLivers and YouTubers going live a lot and I honestly need to start just grabbing my phone and start streaming more now that I have it figured out for DLive. Because sometimes I don't feel like I have anything important to say but in reality I know a decent amount about crypto and have a view point that people might appreciate.

Are The People Who Quit Just Not Hustlers Or Are They The Smart Ones?

I have a real hard time mentally with this question for both athletics and for business. If we are talking about Olympic sports it is almost always a path to financial devastation in a country like the United States because athletes oftentimes don't get real solid funding unless they are the top athlete in their event. For a sport like baseball a lot of players are trapped in the minors and it can be a rough road financially unless a person can sign a Triple A contract. With basketball it is the same thing, guys are there one day and gone two weeks later and then they are bouncing around like a ping pong ball that fell off a frat boys beer pong table. It makes it hard for a person to know when to stop playing because they might physically have all the tools and we have all heard the feel good stories of over looked players who get their shot and started ball'n out of control. For an athlete they hope that stories happens to them but most of the time time it doesn't.

So statistically does the person who just quits end up better off by not trying any longer?

Same thing here on the STEEM blockchain. There were a very small handful of content creators that were able to catch a pretty solid ride went he prices came back up in 2017. Most the people quit posting and a lot of people left the platform. There is really no way of knowing if they ended up better by doing that. Let's pretend they used that time to build up some other business and used some of those proceeds to buy a bunch of TRON because JR Business recommended it and then it shot up to $0.28 and they sold. LOL..... it is possible.

Conclusion

Sometimes working hard and working smart can be totally blurry to most including myself. I'm the guy who chipped all the pool tiles out with a hand chisel instead of just buying a pneumatic chisel and saving myself time.

I guess we can say that a person can hustle themselves into being broke if they don't work smart, get too greedy, and don't know when to cut your losses.

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