So, as I've been saying for the past few days right now is absolutely not the time to be selling any STEEM. You are practically giving it away, pennies on the dollar as they say. Of course, this is not financial advice and people should do their own research, make their own decisions, but all I see is people freaking out at the moment, giving the tokens away sort of speak, as if the end is near.


If you are on coinmarketcap hitting refresh every two minutes, then you are hurting your soul. How do I know? Because I've been guilty of this too. Listen, its not like refreshing the page is helping, there is no counter that is adding value to your tokens just because you hit F5, so at least you must admit you are not being very productive.

You know what makes no sense to me? - These guys, these tiny sales that I'm sure don't belong to whales, but surely belong to people freaking out. In other words, those who 10 STEEM might make a big difference in the future. So, instead of growing their influence now, tightening the belt a little bit, they gift it to the whales on a silver platter.

I guess this is fine. After all there is a reason why some people never grow. Maybe I just have to learn to accept it, but honestly it becomes really hard for me to do so. This is not very logical, it's not even selfish. Yes, that's the right word, the long term selfish thinking is turned off, and the thing that until now has dominated their lives, the thing that has kept some of these people from reaching their goals is in full force.

That sounds like I'm being mean, but the truth is not pretty at times. It is, what it is. Right now when Steem Prices are so low is the time to be thinking about accumulating. That is the only thing you should be thinking about. That is if you want to play the long game. You should be commenting more, you should be posting everyday you should be getting creative, participating of contests, you name it. Anything and everything.

I'm putting my SP to work

I'm moving some of my SP around, and trying to accumulate as much as possible. But honestly, I'm not doing so because of all the sudden I became this blind greedy person, but because I'm recognizing an opportunity. That's exactly why. I mean think about it. How much SP was made when Steem was 10 cents? - You know those whales you sometimes look at and you think - "Wow... look at all that SP, that's just amazing" Some of them, grant you not all, made a lot of their STAKE when steem crashed.

You read that correctly, STEEM crashed before. There was a massive exodus from what I'm told. It went from being $4 USD all the way to 7 cents. (Insert punch in the gut)

What would you have done? If you had all SP become pennies. How would you see your life? Your purpose? How would you feel about everything you've been doing up until now? - That my friends, that is the crazy part. Because those few brave ones that stayed, those who kept on posting, those who kept on participating of the platform, those who didn't slow down, but the opposite did more. Those are some of the "big accounts" you see today.

What does that tell you? Is this maybe a short term tragedy, but a long term opportunity? It could be, It could be. But, if you are fearful, if you let your emotions get the best of you, you wont be around to find out. I think that's crazy. I don't want to be that guy, I don't want to be among the guys who saw opportunity and misidentified it as the end.

I'm going to set a goal for myself and I hope you join me in doing so. My goal is to get to 8K SP when October rolls around. I think I can do it, I think it's reasonable. I remember thinking 5K was years away, and I crossed that mark in 10 months. So why not, Why not celebrate my Steemian birthday in two months with 3k SP more. Is it crazy? maybe, but I think I can pull it off. I want to pull it off.

I remember @sykochica telling me a long time ago that it's obviously great to want to help others, to want to give others. But, what happens if you have nothing to give? What happens if you work so much on giving, you forget about building something to give? - I think that truth sinks in the deepest in moments like this. Because I get to have another chance, another go. For how long? I'm not sure, I actually have no clue. But until then, full speed ahead.

Of course this does not mean I will move my delegations from @helpie or nothing like that drastic. I've simply reduced some of my delegations to other minnows, and put that SP to work for a month (for the moment being). If the market stays low, if Steem lingers at this valuation I should be able to hit 6K SP in two weeks tops. Like I said, I'm going all in on this.

Why am I writing this? What's the purpose? - Honestly, I hope that others join me. I hope that if you happen to bump into my blog, my crazy writing you think to yourself "Can I do this too?" - Then, set yourself a goal and hit the QWERTYUIOP hard. Maybe not literally, but you know what I mean. Participate of the #openmic, get your blog on @steempress, learn to upload on @dtube on @dlive. Learn all the tools at your disposal. And of course!!! Don't forget, this is very important...

Have fun!