Hello Lyle, your dad introduce steemit to you because he wants you to be happy. I welcome you to this wonderful platform full of lovely people. Its great having you here dear. Upvoted you @lailou
What you need to be doing is;
• Show some love to everyone
• Engage steemit family with good post
• Follow people of positive impact
• Avoid plagiarism (copying and pasting another person’s content)
• Be happy
• You can kindly follow me @fingalenz

Please!!! know that everything you need is already within you, be great and never surrender.

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