Steemit is a tricky place. I'm starting to wonder if the key to earning here is to stop trying to earn rewards.
That doesn't mean stop posting or commenting or curating. It just means to stop treating it like a job or a chore or some other task we have to complete.
Instead, we should look at it as something we get to do, which we can fashion into things we like to do, that we're either knowledgeable in or passionate about, and pursue those things.
Then go and comment on other people's posts that we're interested in and leave them a portion of the rewards pool that we control.
I have found that I am much happier when I'm out and about on Steemit, going through my feed or farther afield and reading what others have to say and replying to it than I am sitting on my own blog feed refreshing the numbers to see if they've gone up in the last five seconds or waiting for GINAbot to ping with another upvote, or any other of a number of ways to track what others are doing for me.
Instead, in turning it outward, I'm now becoming more and more concerned with what I can do on with other people's posts and comments. It's meant a world of difference.
And the really interesting thing is, it's really the same advice I was given when I got here. Post regularly. Comment more. Curate as much as you can.
It's pretty much as simple as that. :)
Very well spoken, I was and maybe will now going to do a part 2 for this, on how my whole experience has been, what has worked, what has not, thanks for stopping by my friend.