I have put all my eggs in the Steemit basket over the last year and this has been a big mistake in hindsight.
Now I am scrambling to get action happening in other areas that I have neglected all this time and find myself at a loss for what to do in most of them. I have dropped the connections and forgotten how to do a lot of the tasks I used to do daily. This is made harder still by my panicked mind.
At one point in my steemit journey, I took a look at my book sales, affiliate sales and coaching work, and saw everything dropping. Instead of working on those aspects of my work, I decided to work harder in steemit instead. When the price was higher, I had hope that my posts would get to a consistent $10 payout and would be visible on search engines.
If I got to $10 and a search engine ranking:
- My affiliate links, posted on steemit, would be visible to the world
- My weight loss ideas posted on steemit, would be visible to the world
- My social media ideas posted on steemit, would be visible to the world
This is not going to happen with the current prices and the number of people who regularly upvote my posts. Where I used to be close to $10 or above it regularly, now I am very lucky to get a post over $5 by the time of payout.
Now that I can face the fact that steemit is not going to pay my bills, picking up those other tasks and making them work again seems insurmountable.
But where there is life, there is hope, and so I will do my best to focus on one thing at a time and succeed. I need to do this, not only for me, but for my son 
My son is my proofreader and is very familiar with my work on social media. Now that we are both looking at my other work to try to pick up the pieces, his common response is, "Mom! How could have stopped doing XXXX? You were doing so well with it."
My answer is always, " I was posting on steemit since it was doing so well." But this is not really the truth. I was posting on steemit even when it was not doing so well and continue to do so now. I saw the potential here and still do, but this potential is just that - potential. Today I need to work on my current urgent reality instead of hoping for future benefits.
My Milestone Post Series
You just read one of a series of posts I’m writing to remember this year and how things have gone for me at steemit. Here is what I have posted so far in this series:
MILESTONE One Year on Steemit – My Best Moves
MILESTONE One year on steemit – My Biggest Mistake Part One - Poor Networking
MILESTONE Post: One Year on Steemit – 4800 Followers!
MILESTONE One Hundred Thousand Views at fitinfun You Tube
5 Minute Freewrite Challenge One Year on Steemit
My Books on Amazon and Selz
I have been posting content in the natural weight loss niche online since I lost “half my size” in 2011. I thought steemit would be a good place to post and in many ways it has been.
I’m thankful to all who help me here on steemit, and hope I will be able to carry on.
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