Ever since I joined this platform in July 2016. my goal since day one was to end up with decent amount of Steem Power and HODL it for a long long time. I didn't need any tutorials or guides to learn from day one that the Steem Power is extremely valuable, in early days when inflation was 100% extremely extremely valuable, early miners know WINK WINK.
I invested some of my money early on, but most of it I earned through blogging almost every day. On average I did 5-6 blog posts every week for almost 2 years, that was some serious commitment. Through time as you increase your Steem Power levels, the results of everything you do on the platform increase, I was willing and I'm still willing to ride it out for a long time.
Some early big gains did not interest me that much like the top of early 2018, it was fun but also it was a bubble that very quickly popped, we all knew that will happen but we didn't want to leave the illusion of sudden success and admit it was a bubble. Only whales who had big amounts of Steem stored on exchanges earned millions. Some bloggers who were followed by trails and whales also had it good, I always find it funny to see that I have more SP than them and way less reputation than them, but that is one of those things on here.
I was looking for a new Bitcoin (and I still do), something everyone missed out on in early days, something that can change everything, Steem can become another success story, but it will not be easy, it will take more time than we initially thought.
Who would of guessed that we would ever have another market cycle of cheap Steem, that we would have to start again from the ground up.
I'm glad that 
This huge BTC dump we have experienced yesterday should shake out the scams in the crypto space, unfortunately it pulls down good projects like Steem too, but with time cryptocurrencies with established communities should end up on top.
Right now it is time of cheap Steem, and I say Hell yeah! You should jump on this, because next time when we go up it will be in style!