The Meaning of Steem
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7 years ago in #steem by stellabelle (75)
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The Meaning of Steem
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I am amazed how you ended, " From Nigeria, I learned about humility", One of the very first Word artist I found was from Nigeria. He has a way to totally immerse you in his world when he writes. From him and From Nigeria, I learned about humanity.
My eyes are actually tearing up a bit right now, because reading this post I now know without a doubt, there are real people on steemit, not just the bullies, not just the money hogs. Of you I never had a doubt that you were real, through you and greenrun, and others, I have found some wonderful people to read, and some wonderful places to visit through pictures and words. One day I may have enough steem power to really help someone, in the meantime I will continue to do what I do best, and that is read, and upvote quality content.
I'm honored to be mentioned here. I agree with @stellabella we all mine with our minds here. That is something no one can take from anyone. Like the 2005 dystopian political film, V for Vendetta, V, an anarchist freedom fighter, said and I quote
No one can kill an idea, you can only steal or try to stop it. I like the idea of steemit.
Yes!
We have so much power for helping here on Steemit and as @stellabelle said "It really is in our hands"
I am so grateful every day to see how many amazing people there are on here contributing what they have in their own ways and helping so many people.
We can create the world we want to live in, we are the power~*~
SteemON!
Thank you.
yeah, i do love the expression of not being able to kill an idea! I think this is quite great, and very fitting for our times.
Yes. It fits now more than ever.
I love not killing an idea. I love helping people bring ideas to market.
"Everyone is an owner here."
You know what I love most about this sentence here pertaining to Steemit?
Yes, you're an owner. You take CHARGE.
No, it's not easy. You gotta work hard and be consistent.
No, there're no silver bullets here. You gotta work hard to create your own LEAD bullets.
No, you can't "win" in Steemit with dirty hacks and sleazy marketing tricks. You gotta add REAL VALUE.
No, the people standing out in Steemit are not just the rich ones with high payout. They're the ones being HELPFUL and NICE.
These implications make for a POSITIVE community here with ZERO ambiguity.
This is a far cry from the bullshit I keep being sold on when it comes to some MLM "business."
Every time some friend tries to rope me in their pyramid scheme, they emphasize on how I am the owner and that I can call it a business. I am the boss then.
But dig deeper, and there's so much ambiguity and sleaze deep within. It never works and ultimately, more people get hurt than actually gaining something real in value.
Great post @stellabelle.
thanks for your very impassioned reply. The more free I am the less time I have for bullshit in my life. I have mostly cut out the noise by now. It sounds like you're at a point of doing the same. Sometimes we just need to be presented with an option. I realized I needed to find my tribe, those people who inspire me. I keep looking, and finding them....I feel that from each person I can learn.....but the ones who are simlar to me, and who are better in the compassion dept. those are the leaders.
Indeed.
I make no excuses for myself. I chased money for a long time, which resulted in me leaving Steemit for a while. I regretted that.
If anything, I learnt that if you start on a business with the sole will to want to make money, it's just going to be a rocky foundation.
But all I have to say to the sleazy, bad guys there... come on man... just come on. You may be the no.1 salesman or making a ton of money, but come on man... stop stretching it to the lowest common denominator just to prey on the little guys and leading them on to nothing. What's the MOST common lowest denominator? "no excuses. you're responsible for all your whole life. you didn't put in enough effort. results differ blah blah blah it's not my fault."
Come on...
I started 4 businesses and failed at all them. I instantly gave up. Then I found Altucher who writes. I realized I don't have to start a business. My ideas are my "business".
Altucher is amazing. Check out Mark Manson and Ryan Holiday too. They're the few and rare legit guys.
I love Altucher . She is from Carnegie Mellon University.
I am curious about the "noise" that you talk about. Emotional intelligence in business is key. With our interaction with technology, I find it that our EQ has gone down.
dear woman, i just love your big brilliant beautiful heart and mind!! So much in here I was cheering to, so often when I read your posts, I find you speaking the same thoughts flowing through my mind but with much more clarity and zest. If you were standing here I just couldn't help but kiss both your cheeks!
ha ha! Best reaction ever.
So beautifully expressed~*~
I probably would awkwardly shirk away, though....that's what would happen in reality.
Yup, probably I would too in that situation if some stranger came at me!!!
My lady..their is no day i read about your post and i dont feel like upvoting u with 100$ worth of.. I have been scammed i have been bitter, i have been mocked But i thank God joy is coming my way i have found home and ill will be doin all i can to support my fellow human here. I have found a home am goin to expolre it..i havnt lean all but am loving it here . i stand with women i stand with human stand wit Steemit.
@stellabelle I want to thank you for this article as well as the last conversation I had with you. Im happy to be able to understand this whole thing a lot better... after you spoke about being an owner not an employee, I thought long and hard about that. Its a simple concept with a difficult string of misunderstanding attached to it. literally everything in this article is so important for content creators to hear and understand. I don't think people fully understand what it means to be a "content creator" ON STEEMIT...im still in the process of understanding it.. especially the newbies!. its impossible for a newcomer to come on to steemit and understand the value system here but this is so important to understand. there are so many answers and solutions in this post and I'm lucky enough to understand this now, but many people are so far lost in the bullshit to even ask the right questions. I think the big thing that happens to people when they join, is that they see the dollar signs next to trending posts and then become obsessed with trying to make money and gain followers.. This is an easy thing to have happen. thankfully for posts like this and certain people with the right knowledge and intention, it can be addressed and there can be effort put forth to prevent people from slipping into that.. just like this article^ . I was unable to work on more content for the past week due to escaping the hurricane but something quite interesting happened in that time frame. I had less time to create posts but more time to stop and read peoples posts and articles anytime I had the chance to rest. this comment is the first time I've had a chance to provide real feedback, but sometimes being forced into timeout and only able to read and shutup is very beneficial. I got to silently connect with my followers/following on a deeper level and read through tons of different posts.i even found some more creators to follow.. this made me appreciate and value the "team" apspect of all this. Sure I see peoples posts regularly but this was different.. I read through tons of articles and different categories/ tags appreciating the knowledge and creativity of the community on a deeper level, WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW MYSELF. I was able to forget about ME for a while. There is so much potential and brains here in steemit that it almost blows my mind. If the right circles(team/teams)of people unite and create, this dreamworld will be an unstoppable land of miracles and "fairy dust" lol. its so true.. steemit is legit something that feels un friggen real.. WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER. WE !!not ME or YOU but US. Slowly but surely my mind is shifting from "how do I make money" to- "lemme get my steam power up so WE can rock this shit and keep creating" .. This is a mind shift that is making a huge change for me. I believe that this is the survival of the fittest (in a certain sense), with the fittest being the most selfless and the most creative... and maybe a couple of other things lol. Now that I rambled for a while I should probably end this but I just want to let you know that through this article and a conversation you've helped me have a mind shift thats incredibly important and I believe that that others can also have the same shift.Im resteeming this so my followers get to see this also..I want this to impact as many people as possible.. I too want to write an article similar to continue pressing the subject matter so people continuously see the importance of this and it hopefully gets reinforced. Have an awesome night!
this was a pretty epic comment! I am so glad you had a chance to begin reading....I try to read a lot, but there is so much! Thanks for your thoughts.
You say it’s just thinking out loud! I find a lot of quotable quotes here:
And the best gem I like is the most important message to all those who keep begging for a follow:
This quote itself is so inspiring for making one's reading a rewarding experience esp. a newbie like me. Thank you for posting your random thoughts!
hey thanks for condensing the thoughts into line particles. I appreciated that.
Hello @stellabelle, reading your post today make me think of the help that our dear steemian @cryptopie is needing. Thanks to steemit, with a single click we all can make his life better and help him just in 3 seconds like you said!
We all can make the world a better place...in real.
I just saw this @progressivechef Thanks for the help and support
My pleasure my friend, if only everyone could see this and bring their help too.
Very impressive post. We can build our fate in steemit. It is an energy drink from which, we can boost our power of thinking, it inrich our creativity. You know friend steemit has changed my attitude towards life, it provide me not only financial supports but also become as if my world. As if I wake up with steemit, walk up with steemit and also sleep up with steemit. I have to mine my mind, my thoughts, my expression everything. I want to live and invest my everything for the development of steemit community and my people. Thanks for sharing such a valuable lesson from which everyone can suck the honey. Wish you good luck good health and happiness and great success in life. Thanks.
i love what you are building @stellabelle. the kind of atmosphere you are creating, the kind of example you are showing.
thank you for doing this.
steemit is so wonderful
the dev team cant do what you are doing.
you bring your own unique value and the system rewards you for it
plus you have earned for yourself a swarm of eternally grateful followers and fans
@stellabelle. Thanks for sharing this truth. This is the second time I will comment on your post. I only read them. Like I commented on the first time. Steemit is about searching within and making impact in your own little way. You don't need to be a whale to make impact. By writing things that will make a man that has made up his mind to commit suicide to change his mind and hope again is another way to STEEM like you said.
Personally, have made up my to write and share with people who had lost hope to start believing again no matter what.
I am a Nigerian and a proud one for that matter. @tojukaka introduce me to this platform and I can say it is a privilege to be on a platform where your voice can be heard no matter who is listen.
Just finish writing an article titled ''Humans that cannot be helped''. Don't use the title to judge it but check out the content.
Like one of my mentor would say " don't judge a book by it cover''
I am an incurable optimist and I believe everybody can be one too, then we can have a better world.
Thank you for sharing this thought. I believe STEEMIT has come to make a statement by helping someone like me to fulfill purpose.
Thank you and God bless.
Always an admirer and fan @optimistdehinde.