There is a poker book written by Dusty Schmidt aka Leatherass.
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I read that book multiple times. He was/is a famous but very unpopular player. He did not really care. He was sitting on his leatherass grinding and he made a ton of money in a game where most people loose their money.
The book is about how to organize your life around poker. Your mindset how to approach the game.
The mindset of a businessman
I like to compare Steemit and Poker. For the reason poker is one of the things I know best.
I played my best when I was organized and with a clear routine.
When I was playing
How long
How many tables
Stoplosses
etc
For almost everything I had a plan.
Steemit I approached different. I had no idea about social media. I read a bit about creating email lists but that was not really my cup of tea.
I bought steem as an investment and I was not really sure if and how I am gonna be active here.
Now I am writing more or less daily here.
I am thinking about ways to become and stay a relevant part of this community.
But often I feel I fail. I am often clicking randomly around. Starting a comment and just delete it after. I feel like I am not going out enough anymore --> reading and commenting on other peoples posts.
My votingpower gets so low that I need to take breaks from upvoting other people`s posts on a regular basis.
I am writing about any topic which comes to my mind and I can form a sentence about.
I don`t want to loose the fun in all this as I want to enjoy my job most of the time.
But I don`t mind to have some seriousness in all of this. It is about my livelihood afterall and that deserves to be taken serious ( at least a bit )
What I want to change ?
Before I can answer that really I need to know where I want to end!
What does success look like?
Or better asked how does success look like for me? I enjoy the engagement I receive and I try to keep up with answering every comment ( except spam, fuck that shit ) but I can`t go to my landlord and pay him with me bragging about how many comments I get.
So yeah it is about the $
How much do I need? As I wrote in a previous post to jump in here full time I want to earn a risk insurance I can put to the side if shit would hit the fan.
What do the steemer do different who do really well
Some of them have a lot more steempower delegated or in their own account.
Others write way better content then me
Then there are those with a huge and real following
and some are engaged in projects
So where do I find my niche?
Just writing about one topic? Getting more involved "behind the scenes" (discord, steemchat)
I don`t really know yet. But my business plan will look something like this
set aside a time were I just comment and upvote other people
set aside a time in which I will just produce new material
control my voting power a bit better
don`t lose the fun in all this
or short just be a bit more organized again
Maybe there is no method to that madness at all
As in Poker sometimes you just need a little bit of luck
but