Last week I posted on my strategy to become a whale: Maximising your rewards on steemit. Here is the link: https://steemit.com/steemit/@drwom/maximising-your-rewards-on-steemit
Since then I posted on steemit about the reason I have been lacking sleep lately - see my post Steemit: I name thee sleep-stealer! (But I still ❤️ you!) https://steemit.com/life/@drwom/steemit-i-name-thee-sleep-stealer-but-i-still-you
And I recently posted on the creeping dawn of Internet 3.0 https://steemit.com/blockchain/@drwom/internet-3-0-a-plain-english-guide-to-what-all-the-fuss-is-about-with-blockchains Full disclosure - I would have posted this yesterday if there hadn't been a glitch in the steemit website so I posted this morning 😊
I have been contemplating for a while why so many people seem to be suffering from the phenomenon of what I have diagnosed as ❤️Steemit Love❤️ (this is a phenomena where an individual puts energy - over-and-above what may be available to them on a daily basis - into building their profile on steemit).
Trust me, I'm a Doctor. This is a thing. In the interests of another full disclosure, I have a PhD in comparative criminology.
Putting these three ideas together, I have had an insight (I hesitate to call it a revelation, as it's a bit ordinary): There is a logical connection between the posts noted above.
To sum up, we, the early blockchain adopters utilising steemit and being rewarded for our efforts, have seen the huge potential of this platform and technology. We are spending hours online where before we spent more time in other pursuits (I have written before now about how I need to re-achieve some balance in my life since discovering steemit, even before I named our great platform the sleep-stealer). And we are doing this because we want to become whales. We are devoting time and creative energy into this goal. We see in steemit the potential of an off-ramp from the endless freeway that is our career and the ordinary life which is driving us inexorably towards retirement.
For me, the off-ramp leads to the beach where I will write and swim and walk my dog (yes, I will have a dog) and have time to enjoy my life with my family while still earning money to not just live, but thrive.
A beach where I can continue to support the wonderful steemit community as a whale.
The real beauty of all this is exposed in the secret of ❤️Steemit Love❤️.
It's the reasons why so many of us love steemit:
- Because it's a supportive and creative community which likes to help each other.
- Because it's fun.
- And because we can all become whales together.
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