There are times I think, when those of us who create content on Hive, have a different perspective when it comes to value in regards to the tokens trhemselves and upvotes in general.
Sometimes, we need to ask ourselves why we're here in the first place. For me, Hive is a blessed refuge from the blogging platform I was at before, where I was basically writing for the entity itself and had no sense of ownership.
Remain In Light
It was also a free-for-all of content plagerism where trying to get anything done about it was like trying to run across a floor covered in oil. You were going nowhere fast and expending much energy trying to do it. Here, I have a true sense of ownership and a much more level playing field to create content in.
So being rewarded is the cherry on top if you know what I mean. I've never been one of those authors blessed enough to regularly make the 'Trending' sections, as we have so many good publishers who've truely earned their regular runs in that space. Kudos to them, they absolutely deserve it.
Having been here for years, I tend to take a long-term veiw of Hive, both the blogging platform and the tokens as well. When it comes to upvotes, I treasure every single one of them. If a post of mine "only" earns say $1, in my mind, that's a dollar more than I went to sleep the night before with, see what I mean?
I'm thrilled when my posts get any support, since no one "owes" me an upvote. So I always keep that future value in mind.
Being Grateful And Creating A Body Of Work
You should also aim to create a body of work, and just as we've learned to roll with the short-term fluctuations in the market, we must do the same with individual post earnings. If one doesn't gain traction, I've got another on-deck and ready to go. Having a long-term viewpoint will really help you here.
My last hive post as of this writing has earned $0.39, of which half will be paid out to me as the author. But to me, that half may be worth much more 5 years from now, and that's the possibility we need to keep in mind instead of complaining about our earnings.
That 20 cents in post earnings might be worth $20 ten years from now (yes, I look that far out). Just 14 years ago we saw the creation of Bitcoin and the ignition of the cryptocurrency revolution.
How many of you can remember when 1 BTC was worth less than a dollar? People back then thought I was chasing ghosts for getting involved with crypto, but I correctly saw this as the future, and wasn't about to be dissuaded by the small minds around me.
I feel the same way about Hive.
It also helps that I've been here long enough that many of the people you call Whales, were people I saw struggling as well when they first started. Some of them even joined after me, so I don't look at them the same way newer people might.
Their wise advantage was that they actually had the funds to put some "skin in the game" while I didn't. They also had the time which I lacked back then, to post every single day and engage like crazy, which also helped to build their network.
Again, Perspective...
Seeing Beyond The Horizon
There's so much unrealized value locked up in the HIVE and LEO tokens, that if we continue building a strong foundation today, we will be richly rewarded for it in the future. But that's just it, we need that "vision thing" that Steve Jobs had to be able to see that far out beyone the short-term bumps in the road.
Think of where we are right now, we're still in very early days. If you missed out on value BTC, you have another chance to get in early on Hive. What you may consider to be a less-than-successful post reward-wise, may end up contributing to a very valuable set of crypto holdings in the years to come, so continue building while keeping that future in sight.
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