I guess this is the real challenge:

Have patience, rather than insisting on realizing goals when the time is not right.

This is a very useful idea for Steemit and life in general. It is so easy to be caught up in the anxiety of the realized project/dream that often times we minimize the importance of the small achievements.
A stair is composed of steps and every step counts.

And how about the anxiety produced by pursuing the wrong goal? Like the love infatuated with the wrong person. Time and effort wasted in a doomed enterprised. But, even those failures produce learning and experience that help suceed somewhere else.
At least that should be the approach.