Learning to Unlearn what you've Learned...

Everything I was told upon starting was basically wrong and I realize that in spite of best laid intentions I remember the saying that, "The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions"...

Here are some inconvenient and unsavory facets to this game I have learned...
(This is an Op/Ed and your results may Vary)

• Post Everyday and your consistency will make you win!
  I've done better not posting every day but if I have a day I feel like doing a couple of posts I will. I see some who were posting and trending with "updates" every couple of hours...this isn't Twitter FFS

• Make sure your posts are very long and perfectly formatted and the more time you spend on them the better!
  The attention span of the average person in the Steemian age is a couple minutes if you are lucky. People send me vids and I usually skip around and invest maximum 5-10 minutes on ANY post that I am checking out. Coming back to add that on my own posts they can range from having invested a substantial amount of time on my end to a random thought on a train.

• Make sure to comment on prominent members posts as you will win!
  This method has worked for a few but for most that have been on here long enough, overly sugary and/or begging for follows or to check out your blog backfires. The worst is leaving promo links in a guise of it somehow helping.... unless you have a working and friendly relationship with that person. My advice is: "Just don't do that thing."

• Attend as many podcasts as you can and work and give away your time for free and be an admin in everything you can!
  Sometimes this produces good results depending on the group on Discord. Discord is rather crucial to the networking aspect on here as are other social platforms that interplay with this one if used wisely. Overextending yourself as I have and winding up in unnecessary dramatic bullshit tends to not result in a huge difference to your wallet and leaves you figuring out you are working for way below minimum wage.

I've learned to unlearn what has not yielded any positive results and let go and will be letting go of things I feel are sucking me dry and are not in any way a symbiotic or genuine relationship either business or friendship wise. I will work what works!

catch up on some of my recent posts du jour
https://steemit.com/steemit/@battleaxe/excessive-posting-want-to-lose-followers
https://steemit.com/thealliance/@battleaxe/ode-to-public-transportation-now-with-extra-aggressive-seat-grabbers
https://steemit.com/thealliance/@battleaxe/titans-of-teamgood-battle-royale-edition
https://steemit.com/teamgood/@battleaxe/titans-of-teamgood-extra-ramen-edition
(giphy, @thealliance @steemsugars @ecs @mbc @steemusa @teamgood)