Good morning @lynncoyle1! Before đ, "in here" doing some "curating," before heading off to my "day job" ...
I wanted to come back to this post I briefly had time to read the other night and made a mental note (gotta figure out a better "plan" than that ...) that I wanted to come back to it and write to you. A little âsoberingâ to write a comment I deem worthy of your post, but to let it go just doesnât seem right either âŚ
As a quick âexecutive summaryâ statement, to begin, for a ânewbieâ like me, after reading it, the thought occurred to me this post should be ârequired reading.â You donât âknowâ me âfrom Adam,â as they say, but I am definitely not the flatterer type. At all ⌠So, I sincerely mean that and genuinely hope it will provide some encouragement to you.
Into some details âŚ
â All of that takes several hours, meaning anywhere from 2-6 or more, I'd say.â
Yes, definitely struck a responsive chord with me, as maybe writing content is âquickâ for others. Definitely not for me ⌠âQualityâ over âquantityâ is referenced âin here,â but until you âlive it,â I donât think the time commitment is well understood. Your post took time to put together. And, I imagine a lot of it âŚ
With our universal âfixed constantsâ of â24 / 7 / 365,â we have a set amount available and we need to be very clear how it is invested. Time invested well on this one @lynncoyle1!!
âSuffice it to say, I spend a great deal of time reading through the submissions and their three chosen curation posts. Finally, I keep my eye out for "newbies" in need of a little love and try to help them myself and/or pass them on âŚâ
Time again. And a lot of it. And, again, not sure how clearly this is understood. Definitely stood out to me, if you are going âto do it right,â while fully aware that will mean âdifferent things to different peopleâ âŚ
So, as a ânumbersâ guy, educated as an engineer (poor thing ⌠he canât help it âŚ), there is a quantitative measure of what you write about here from which we cannot escape. Wish I was better at putting the right words together to capture what I mean, but it is a big deal âŚ
But, as I made an attempt at capturing in my adding value post, there is more to it than that. Considerably more. And that is âat the heartâ of why your post stood out to me. It is how you have chosen to invest your time. For you, I truly hope the future holds many, many multiples of the â500 SPâ referenced in your title.
âNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever hasâ
Indeed. Words matter. A lot ⌠Not sure how one would improve upon the concise, but âright in the bullseyeâ words of your profile. Exemplifies one of my all-time favorite sayings:
âWhen all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.â
So, @lynncoyle1 ... You donât just talk about it, you clearly âliveâ it. You have my respect and admiration, as it is rare, at least in my experience âin the real worldâ to find that.
Now that I "know" you, I definitely want to have you on my Follow list. Sadly, I now see âtime is up,â for me to complete what I originally had in mind â to resteem this post. I know at the time (as well as others) that what resteeming âlacksâ is the ability to add a âpersonal touchâ msg. to your followers, about why they should take the time to read what you have resteemed. Only option seemed to be to Comment first âŚ
Well, âlesson learnedâ for the ânext timeâ ⌠And, doing all that I know to do for now, I have saved this post in my âFavoritesâ list on Busy.org, for future reference âŚ
Moving forward, in the limited time that I have, I will be working on emulating the great example you set for us here in our Steem Community. Thank you for providing it and all the best to you @lynncoyle1, for a bright new day!
[Psalm 118:24]
P.S. Faced with the "cold, hard" reality of my 100% upvote 1) Perhaps not counting (?) since you wrote this 8 days ago and 2) OK, @roleerob, it's not going to exactly do much for my 500 SP (âRepâ x SP x ?...?, all those âSteem calcâ details ...) objective âŚ
Guess weâll just have to go with "it's the thought that counts" for now and be at peace with, "we've done what we can" with the "system" we have "in here" ...
P.P.S. Note to self: "... work on emulating ..."
Uhhh ... Sure you will ... Must've forgotten your hard-learned "under promise and over deliver" lesson, so ... We're just gonna have to go over it one more time ... đ
RE: Striking Balance : How to get to 500 SP ?