The Hardest Part

When I first started to interact with Steemit I had ideas, yet I could not fathom how I could create enough content to post every day. Especially not in the way Seth Godin seemingly has a profound thought 5 times an hour. It was a little maddening seeing accounts with 3000 posts made in 3 months (I hadn't yet noticed that most of them were comments) After some time of sitting with the frustration and trying my hand at writing a few articles, I began to look at it like this:

If you had a teacher who assigned you a 30 minute writing assignment each morning with a simple prompt, that'd be easy right? I mean that's just a fraction of the work I did most days in high school. And on the flip side, if you had to be the teacher and come up with a writing prompt for every day of the year, how hard would that be? I mean it wouldn't happen over night. You'd have to sit down and do some serious brainstorming, but that's fun. Just thinking up random ideas is definitely one of life's simple pleasures.

So part A is a little bit of work, part B is a little bit of work. But if you develop the discipline to put them together you've got yourself a daily blog, with no more effort than you expended in school. That's really all there is. The discipline to commit to consistency. If you show up every day to acheive whatever purpose you set for yourself, the rest comes in time. Specialization, confidence with the game, an understanding of its mechanics, your killer instinct all will come in time. But none of that will happen without the initial dedication.