Stop Asking for Easy!
Whatever You Want to Accomplish Realize it is Not Going to be Easy.
Anything in our lives that has any meaning requires substantial work, effort, blood, sweat and tears. It always amazes me when people tell successful entrepreneurs, artists, athletes or anything that requires skill that they are so lucky. Let me tell you about luck, my luck was born through effort and I know the same goes for anyone who has been successful in any endeavor.
Today We Have Been Conditioned to Think That Everything Can Be Accomplished Easily.
Everything around us screams, "you can have your desires now!" Our society tells us that effort is no longer required. Spend your time enjoying your life, tomorrow is another day. When people who have grown up in a system like this confront an obstacle a good percentage will throw their hands up in defeat. How many times have we seen exactly this on Steemit? Pareto's Principle on Steemit.
The Common Theme is "I GIVE UP"
The Stuggle is Real!
The truth is that behind the scenes that person may have contemplated giving up. They had to fight peer pressure. They had to give up watching sports. Maybe they had to give up gaming. It is possible that they worked 60 hour weeks then came home and worked another 20 hours a week perfecting their blogging skills. From afar it looks like they have it made but only that person knows what it took for them to be successful.
The most difficult enemy I have found is society. They just don't understand. When you aim for the top it is a lonely road. Then something magical happens, "you find your tribe". The craziest thing happened for us over the last few years. We started finding fellow entrepreneurs who also had big dreams. They were not necessarily in the same field as us but being fellow entrepreneurs was all that was needed to find a common bond.
Once you find your tribe societies opinion will mean less and less to you. I beg you to keep pushing forward. Everyone of you has a dream that you want to accomplish. I want you to find it and start working on making it a reality.
Your Goals on Steemit.
I have watched over the last nine months as many people have come and gone on this amazing platform. It really saddens me to see people give up so easily. I want everyone to be successful but I am a realist and understand that the majority of society does not have the strength to persevere through months of low rewards and engagement on their posts.
I believe churn on this platform will be a normal part or our community. I wonder what the numbers are on platforms like Medium, Blogger and Wordpress. I guarantee you the failure rates of blogs on those platforms will be even higher than here. At least on Steemit if a person makes an effort to be part of the community they will be welcomed with open arms.
Keep on Steeming!
Video by #BeSomebody
If something is too easy to do, it is usually not interesting.
Happiness is not to just have an easy life, it is to find something difficult and to do it successfully.
I freaking love this post!
It's so true! That is why many hard working people have a massive advantage these days ! It makes me mad that people down play my hard work.
I became self employed at the age of 23 (I'm 24 now).
I had to work 12-15 hours 7 days a week for a whole year to make it happen. I made almost nothing at first. I was just scraping by with my brutal warehouse job at UPS. I would come home from my part time job hardly able to walk because I was so exhausted. But I would jump on the computer and work on my business.
Eventually the hard work built up.
And I was able to quit that part time job. 9 months later and I'm still doing really well self employed.
People say I'm "lucky" I'm not lucky. I worked my ass off!
It makes me wonder how these people are going to survive in life expecting everything to be easy, or expecting those handouts.
Yeah, people not only want an "easy button" for everything, so many just shrug and give up as soon as they meet a challenge along the way. And you're right... society has somehow stopped rewarding working for the things you want... not that it has stopped shooting for "success," but success has become more of a "lottery effect" thing...
Agree! Thanks for sharing, Steem on!
These are wise words. A few days ago a new user asked me in a chat if I could give him a recommendation how to improve his outcome on steemit. He said that his articles didn't find an audience and he couldn't explain that. It was his third day on the platform 🙄
That's what's happening today and everywhere: everything has to be NOW and it has to fall down from the sky right into my arms.
It's good to see that actually a lot of people knew better here, stayed and kept on working. There are still many Steemians who joined in the earlier times and as we can see from their results: it was worth being patient :)
Thanks for the reminder, Randy!
Resteemed hoping especially the new users will find it
I appreciate it Marly! I also get these private messages consistently. I just say be consistent and engage there really are no shortcuts.
One shortcut I can think of, is for newbies to read the tips that @hilarski shares so generously throughout his posts. It will fast-track anyone willing to put in the 'work' to get a worth while result. Nothing happens over night, but it does happen if one perseveres.
This is perhaps the most pertinent and timely piece of writing. "Once you find your tribe, society's opinion will matter less and less to you" - yes! These are powerful reminders. Insightful, inspiring. Thank you for your words! Peace and love
@hilarski You are right, many come and expect that they will fall mana of heaven. But this does not happen, we are told: "Each product has its own customer." It plays a role with which excitement you will describe your hobbies, a matter in which you are a master. And you will have your readers who will be interested. For example, I really like being here, I want to tell more about my country Ukraine, about my creative and interesting work, my hobbies. And I'm looking for those who interested me with their articles, talent.
I don't know of a better place at this point and time...
Well said @hilarski coming home from work and then working some more giving up things I enjoy it all sounds like me, still here even with the low rewards.
The feels from that video!