Hello Steemians, hope we all had a great weekend, and are all getting ready to start the new week with much gusto.
I've been on this platform for about ten days now and I must confess it's been fun, as a writer I am finally happy that I'm getting value for my work. I can still remember when my friend Chris 
My very first post on Steemit was an article I read somewhere, as you all know for you to be a good writer you must also be a good reader, and so without much ado I lifted the article and posted here, because I felt it was worth sharing.
Within seconds of posting this article, I had a visitor and his name was CHEETAH. It was a very demoralizing experience, my very first article posted on steemit and cheetah visits me.
That visit by CHEETAH taught me a lot of things, and one of those was that to make it in this community needs a lot of hard work.
That visit by CHEETAH has been a driving force, pushing me to do better, pushing to add more value and quality to my content. That visit has increased my drive for excellence and success in this great community.
While so many people are scared of CHEETAH, I have come to see him as that friend that has spurred me to more action.
In whatever we do, let's not be put down by events which people would ordinarily see as set backs, rather let's look at the brighter side of things and know that every set back is a call to more action.
My first encounter with CHEETAH is actually the reason I am determined to succeed in this community so I want to say:
THANK YOU CHEETAH FOR THAT VISIT.