My Motivation and Pressure In Steemit.

Hi friends, I'm glad to be part of this contest, every user blogging here has their sources of motivation, we all have one thing that pushes us to join Steemit, and that Same thing keeps us here, or maybe we later find something intriguing that keeps us till now. There's a saying that nothing good comes easy, so we all have pressure too and I'll share mine with you today.

It's not easy to be a blogger, that's why we all need motivation and encouragement to keep on, at first I didn't believe a platform like Steemit existed. I was sceptical due to my previous bad encounters with so-called online scam platforms but I joined though after good persuasion and here I am addicted to the platform. Let me answer the guiding questions.

To be sincere, I can't tell the exact hours I normally spend each day on the platform, because I am normally busy here, either creating content, moderating, curating or verifying posts. I did other things too, because I'm a mom and I have a life outside here both social and spiritual, maybe on average I'll say I used to spend 8 hours a day on the platform.*

I normally spend 2-3 hours creating posts, 8 -10 hours curating posts on my Curation day, 4 -5 hours on the day I work in the Newcomers' community this includes Making video calls with some, 3 - 4 hours to moderate and review posts in the community, this is it.

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Well, I'm expecting to earn at least 300 SP and 300 liquid tokens weekly, that's just a target and to be sincere it is not easy to reach, for one thing, no SBD reward for now but I normally try my best, I mean I'm not in a competition with anyone but myself just trying to be better than yesterday. Sometimes I do earn 200 Steems, some 100+ and others even less depending on how active I was on a particular week and how much support I got but in all I'm grateful because gratitude is a must and being thankful is my biggest source of motivation, I never take what I have for granted.

I like joining engagement contests, I write diary and health posts too coupled with creative contests. I'm versatile when it comes to content creation, I do like art but nowadays time is so limited that I don't know if I'm the only one who needs more than 24 hours a day.

Sometimes I'm stressed out, keeping up with house chores, taking care of kids and creating content, but I love it here that's why I tried to be active weekly. To be frank, I don't used to have support in the diaries and I feel maybe others don't find it interesting. Well, I feel that an upvote is a kind of encouragement to tell a users that he/she is doing great. Sometimes I do create top-notch posts and I'll get more positive feedback but no reasonable vote, well, I still carry on because an Upvote is not guaranteed. I don't usually have high expectations when I create posts because there's a wise proverbs that "expectations postponed makes the heart sick" I don't want to be disappointed I'd rather be taken by surprise!

For one thing, I know Steemit is a genuine platform, I trust in it, and I'm always motivated by this, earning in cryptocurrency is lucrative now because of the high rate of Dollars. I'm on my own here, I don't follow after the crowd I do things my way. I could recall a year when my country's people had massive Power down, coming up with different excuses and reasons, I wasn't shaking because I did my findings and stood my ground.

Steemit team support is my source of motivation too, it keeps me going and makes me feel relevant and encouraging comments from fellow users too, Then I used to recount all my blessings here and tell myself, Steemit is one of the best!

I've been in club5050 for some months now, well I used to be in 75 until the pause on Tron. Being in this club has allowed me to use my money for some things like purchasing my data subscription, and buying things for myself and my loved ones. To be sincere tasting the money is also my source of energy here, Nigeria's economic condition is deteriorating would I say hourly so my earnings here have helped ease some of my house bills.

I've used my reward to buy some beautiful kitchen utensils before but right now I'm saving so that before the end of this year I will gather whatever I have and give it to my husband to add up and install solar energy in our house. I've learned about the importance of solar here and have been supported by a lot of projects on solar so it will be nice to contribute to mine.

I like Steemit, I learn daily here and there are no competitions, and we're not forced to do anything rather everyone is working at his/her pace. We only need time, motivation and encouragement which normally comes in various ways. Nothing is smiling now, even working-class people still need a side hustle to level up and Steemit can do just that. Being consistent is the key to success on Steemit, hi @eliany, @mesola and @mdkamran99 join this contest.