Everyday, hundreds of new accounts are being created. There are hundreds to thousands of steemians organizing meet-ups all over the world. Massive campaigns are expanding the user-base of steemit. Thousands of testimonies by already steemians are drawing the attention of the general public and people are signing up en masse. As all these things are taking place simultaneously, steemit is becoming more difficult by the day. Why?
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Because steemit is a program built on the ideology of social interaction. The more we are, the more number of people you will have to socialize with. And how you go about interacting with these people will have a tremendous effect as to whether you succeed or fail. Do you just give up in the face of these challenges? How do you approach things to ensure you remain relevance in the community? Why do most people work so much without achieving any tangible results? The answers to these questions are what the theme of our today's lesson is all about.
The most commonly committed mistake in steemit
One of the most commonly committed mistakes people make in Steemit is carrying out their blogging obligations without planning. Some spend the time they would have used to engage in a more productive activity, chatting in the general chat channels. I am not saying hanging out in the chat channels is bad. No. In fact, it is one of the most effective ways to make friends in the community but overindulgence is bad.
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You cannot just be hanging out there when you have not updated your blog for the past three days. What are you doing in the chat room when you have not visited other people's blogs for the past one week? And it's not as if you're a veteran steemian. You hurriedly put up an ill-prepared post just to go hanging out. That's irresponsible! And how do you think you will ever make a headway?
Some people wake up periodically when they like and go to the various post promotion channels to comment and curate posts at will without planning. Some wander about on steemit platform, visiting trending posts to comment and upvote posts with the aim of endearing themselves to the various authors, and getting upvotes in return. As a wanderer steemian who was not introduced by anyone, I was guilty of this in the past. I would go to #health page to look out for the post of 
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Make a list of your targets and go after them while not skipping your obligations to other communities
Are you like that? Do you engage in any of the discussed mistakes? Maybe you're one of those who go about wandering in the community, upvoting and commenting on people's works at random without focus nor aims? Are you getting frustrating right now and quitting seems to be the only viable answer? The beauty of this program is no one owes anyone anything. That I brought you into the community does no mean there is any special commission that would accrue to me. So your quitting means nothing to anyone, more especially when you're nothing in the community.
One adage says, "During a popular market day, no one knows that one person doesn't come to market." So you quitting now that price of steem is about to go North means missing out in the historic opportunity to hit big. God forbid that you would be a story teller.
Most people run into different difficulties on steemit because they fail to plan their actions. They do not have pre-defined course of action to pursue. You cannot establish yourself here by just waking up at will to embark on random upvoting and curating of posts. No one would notice you even if you do that for many months.
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For me, the best way to approach this program is to have two lists; compulsory list and non-compulsory list.
Compulsory list
My compulsory list contains the names of accounts or usernames I must visit everyday before I retire to bed. These include people that rank more than myself in all ramifications. Getting the attention of these people is not an easy task and the worst you would do is to spam their privacy with links. They are the big guys, they don't drop their links in the link rooms. So you don't expect to see their links in the link rooms. You have to manually check on the everyday if there any update.
If there's, take your time, read and comment meaningfully. Also try to ask questions in your comment to draw their attention. While doing this, you're also indirectly marketing yourself.
Since I joined this program, I have been working on about 20 persons. Out of these 20, about 4 have followed me. One has added me to his auto vote with very low percentage weight. While about 13 do visit my blog once in a while without actually following me or adding me to their autovote. But I am not giving up. I know sonnet than later, they would come to know that this guy is really here to stay and would have no choice.
So what am I saying? Make your own list and get down to work!
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Non-compulsory list
This is not really a list in actual sense of it. It is made of people I meet in the various communities I belong. I could be more than them in ranking. They could also be more than me or we're both at ties. Rank doesn't matter here. What matters here is the seriousness of the individual. If you're the type that's not serious, that doesn't engage others, I will know because your blog will lack activities — comments and upvotes. And when I find out, the best I can do is to upvote you with a very low weight percentage.
If your the type that powers down perpetually, I will totally avoid you because your reciprocation means nothing to me since there is no much SP backing such gesture. Try to be popular among these people because you guys would not remain kids forever. The more they know you now, the more likely they would vote you in the future, when all of you must have accumulated significant SP.
Overall, learn to be patient. Be patient and be active. Once you're active and dedicated to what you do, nothing prevents you from succeeding. Thank you and thank you very much.
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Don't give up. Success is within reach only if you persevere
Starting out in any endeavor in life is always not easy. And so expecting otherwise is therefore an indirect expression of unreadiness in pursuit of any worthwhile goals. This has been the core definition of my person. So in any endeavor I find myself, I usually stayed back even when everyone has left to see if there would ever be a chance for success. Only when all indicators turn red that I would throw in the towel. I am grateful to God that I didn't give up in the face of initial challenges.
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