Abandoned Projects: What, Did You Think it Would be EASY?

Whenever the end of the year rolls around and we start in on a new year, I always end up doing a bit of ”house cleaning.”

By house cleaning I mean taking the time to actually visit and explore the pages, blogs, forums, communities, and other projects I have gotten myself involved in — or been air dropped tokens from, in the case of crypto — just to see what's going on.

I believe this to be good practice, and something most people would benefit from doing because sometimes we end up carrying a banner and promoting something that is actually pretty dead in the water.

Whereas it can be applied to the greater world and pretty much any activity you get involved in, we can also apply it here on Steemit where many projects ans communities are started and then we find ourselves wondering what has happened to them.

Now — in the wild world of crypto — it's one thing when you have obvious grab-and-runs or rug pulls that are clearly dishonest, quite a different thing when something gets started with great fanfare, seems to be working towards something, and then it seems to just sort of fizzle out.

When the latter happens I tend to do a little more digging and almost invariably it leads me to ask the question posed by the title of this post:

What, Did You Think it Would be EASY?

I'm not interested in laying blame or pointing fingers at anybody — this is more a case of shining the light on the perception of the entire cryptosphere which often seems to revolve around the idea that this industry is all about ”easy money.”

And so, people start projects that are perhaps viable enough and they do their homework that is perhaps diligent enough, and they start something that runs well enough, but then they get six months down the road and start getting a little disgruntled because they haven't been able to buy that giant mansion and that new Mercedes yet, and so they stop working on their project with quite the same determination and fervor as when they started.

As I think about it, perhaps the light I am shining here should not be pointed only at the Cryptosphere, but at society in general.

After all, we live in a world where everything is "supposed to" happen instantaneously; our expectations having changed from expecting something to happen "whenever it'll happen" to same day delivery from Amazon. What I'm saying here is that perhaps the originators of some of these projects are — metaphorically speaking — expecting "same day delivery from Amazon", with respect to their success!

Not to be a Grinch here, but it strikes me that some things are never going to lend themselves to "overnight delivery."

Sure, we read the news — or watch YouTube clips — about somebody whose product went viral and they became instantly rich overnight, but in the process we forget the fact that the news stories we are reading are the exception, not the norm. In a sense it's not a whole lot different from 40 years ago when the stories we'd see was on somebody winning millions of dollars in the lottery... but winning the lottery is not something we would rely on to set our grocery or car shopping budget!

Much as it might be a bitter pill for some, it is not easy to become wildly successful. In fact, it is often a lot of work to become even a little bit successful!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great remainder of your week!

How about you? How often do you check back with projects and investments you have become interested in? Leave a comment if you feel so inclined — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!

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Created at 2025.01.14 01:03 PST
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