The Power of Positive Thinking on Steemit.

Season greetings my dear steemians, I hope we are all coping with the global inflation that is gradually becoming our normal lifestyle.

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Today, I have come in peace to share with you all how despite the inflation, we can still think positively and achieve more.

Before going deeper into the amalmatter of the day, let me share a little experience I had with Steemit that has contributed to my success story.

When I joined Steemit in 2020, that was in July, it was the period of the pandemic and I had received a letter from my office, suspending work till further notice. Nobody knew when further notice will come because there was panic everywhere. During that period, I had put to birth, my second child.

To me, engaging on Steemit was to raise money I can use for some basic needs while still hoping for better days and while not, further notice from my office. I did not know that was the end of work with that particular office. The first months on Steemit were challenging because my expectations were not realized. I was not getting the support as upvotes on my posts as I thought.

I remembered at one point, I almost gave up but one thing I hold on to was, I was thinking positively and believed that one day, everything gonna be fine. Some of my country's steemians saw huge votes in other communities and translated their content into Chinese language and posted in those communities, hoping to get some support from the community members as others were receiving.

But that never happened. At that time, there was no community to put all of us from Cameroon, to build our community and support each other. After several months of touring from one community to another, we decided to think positively and build a circle where we could support each other. That is how we created the steem-cameroon community.

I know lots of people from my country and even in other countries joined Steemit with the wrong expectations. And I believe that is the reason after posting for a few days or months, they quit and power down. Forgetting to know that the same problems that prompted you to power down and quit will still resurface one day. You haven't looked for a permanent solution but rather created more problems for yourself.

How to Cope on Steemit with a Positive Mindset.

I am sharing what I always used to achieve progress on Steemit and while not my life. In my notebook, on the first page of each year, I wrote the following:

Think it.

Believe it.

Work it.

Achieve it.

Now let me explain how I use this as a strategy to achieving progress.

Think it:

if you want to succeed on Steemit, you need to think positively because he moment negative thinking sets in, you will experience negative energy and everything you see is a problem. You find yourself in the position of quitting because you only think of negative ideas. I always advise my juniors that in life no condition is permanent unless you decided to make it permanent. When you stop thinking positively, your negative conditions became permanent.

Believe it:

Do not only think it but also believe in your thinking because that is the only therapy to your success story. When others see things as impossible to achieve, believe in yourself that you can achieve them. I use to tell some of my recruits that one day I will become an orca on Steemit and they will laugh and say that is impossible unless I am a sister to Steemcurator01.

When you do not believe you can do something, you think no one can do that thing. I believe that one day, I will still become an orca and I'm working towards achieving that. Get rid of that negative mindset that no one can achieve on Steemit because you failed to achieve. Some failed Steemit users will go to the extent of saying “keep wasting your time on that thing...One day, you will wake up and the site has crashed down. These are forces to stop you from believing in achieving your targets.

Work It:

Only thinking and believing in yourself is not sufficient for you to succeed. You need to work it out by investing more time in Steemit, engaging with other users, and creating at least one post per day. Some users always claimed to be busy and do not have time to steem. I think I am one of the busiest human beings on earth but I still create time for Steemit. Your success story will never come if you do not work it out. No matter the thinking and believing in yourself, if work is not done, then there is no way you will achieve it.

Achieve it:

Achievement comes after putting in some hard work. When I say hard work, I know some users will say they have been working hard but yet, haven't achieved anything. I always advise people to work smart and not hard. Yes, work smart by setting your smart goals. Do not work as if you are a wind vane once the wind is passing in a particular direction, it can easily blow you off toward that direction. Nobody gains or loses anything if you quit or stay active on Steemit. Your achievements on the platform are as a result of your smart work.

Conclusion.

In sum, I will say use your weak points as a springboard to work toward progress. Do not only complain of “...I do not have enough time to steem every day” or having negative thoughts that one-day Steemit will collapse. Think positively, and believe in yourself that you can achieve any amount of SP so far as you work smart. Never give up on yourself because that is the point of a breakthrough. Stay blessed as you steemon.