If you love what you are doing then it is just easy to do it and you will just find yourself happy afterwards. That is one of the keys of steemit. If you have a passion in life, the things that you love to do or think about, just share it at steemit community and things will go big in the future for you from there.
Afterwards you will meet like-minded people who will support you that you can have an interaction with and thus will create for you an ecosystem that will be made just for your own wants and needs.
I know that it is really hard to start here at steemit as you are like invisible and no one wants to interact with you. But one idea is that everyone wants to be upvoted so if you are a minnow or even a red fish, you just have to upvote and make the content creator feel appreciated, that makes you a candidate for the content creator to notice you and gives you what you also wanted.
Most of the time it is what is happening but you will also notice that there are also circlejerks. It rooted from having to supporting one another in a small way and they just stuck to one another because they benefit from one another in a big way.
But to succeed at steemit you just have to love blogging, you either have to create a content that you love, a piece of you or to interact a lot. Then you will grow and be like the big ones that you dream of being. Just don't get disheartened and you will be big one day.