Carpe Diem everyone!
What does that mean? The popular colloquialism for this phrase is "seize the day" but the literal translation from Latin is perhaps "pluck the day."
One way or another it is a phrase that is meant to motivate oneself or someone else to grab the day with both hands and get stuff done!
Here is the Google Dictionary explanation:
Now we can come back to my picture used for this post... that man has Seized the Carp! Carpe Diem! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now that you know that that means (I am sure many people already knew but I thought I would bring everyone to the same page first), we need to look how to apply this in their lives!
Of course the saying can be applied to our everyday lives. It is almost like an ancient "YOLO", but I want to focus on us bloggers here on Hive.
I see and communicate with a lot of bloggers on Hive. I have some of the Busy Bees who blog every single day without fail. To them, it has been built into their daily routine. It has become a second nature and for some, a deep seated NEED.
And then, I onboard people or meet others that struggle a bit... And I understand completely!
New people come to Hive with hopes and dreams. Most people have an idea, they will post their art, or their fiction, their travels or their food, the list goes on.
Some people start like a bang and a flash and a raging inferno and the fire burns fiercely for like 2 weeks or a month, maybe three months... then dies. You also get the SLOW DEATH of people who post and post and post and then starting posting a little less and a little more sporadically and then it peters out and dies.
So what causes all this failing? I shall list a couple of reasons!
Stick around till the end where I share my opinion as to why bloggers should do their best to chase these solutions.
Problems and Solutions
Fear and Loathing
Some people have it in their head where they fear making a post because they do not know if their post will be liked.
This is most relevant to people who are brand new, but it also may affect other people suddenly like a sudden stage-fright.
Firstly, unless its inappropriate, breaks a rule, is plagiarism, or AI spam - nobody is going to attack your content. As long as its yours, the worst that can happen is nobody or not many people sees the post.
What is likely to happen, is that you will get some votes. You might even get many votes.
The solution is to see a post as creating a potential for votes. It is never a guarantee.
The solution is to post about things that interest YOU.
The solution is to go and interact with others on that same subject.
You will grow, you will make friends. Both of those things will increase the your average minimum post value.
Burnout
The candle that burns twice as bright often burns out twice as fast.
I have seen people arrive onto the platform, brand new and full of energy. The amount of time that they maintain this energy is variable. Some hold it for a week, a month sometimes a solid year.
Then suddenly, almost immediately, like they just disappeared off the face of the earth, their content stops.
They have reached burnout.
I am not saying you should not post, even at a very high frequency when you are so inclined and you feel inspired.
But you should know that the only real tried and tested way to grow on Hive as a Blogger is to do so constantly. I have seen hundreds of accounts generates hundreds or even thousands of dollars from posting.
However, that has NEVER happened in a week or a month. I will say that those that have big accounts that they have built up over time tend to earn way better than the small fish.
They build up relationships with other big accounts and community leaders and they gain good support. If you want to become like that, you need to stay active in the community. I have seen no other requirement.
Expecting results
I sort of have already covered a bit of this above. How to build up your blog so you get an increased "average minimum" on posts.
There is something that some people do on Blogs that is similar to what self-published writers do... well... the newbies who struggle: They post/publish and then wait to see what the results are.
Let's focus on the Hive version of this mentality.
These people look at their last post and they want to see if people read it, like it, comment on it and if the reward is good. They do this instead of thinking or planning or writing their NEXT post.
Some people sit there and they wait and seek validation from the results of this post. As someone who posts a lot I can tell you... you may see votes within a few minutes of you hitting Publish. More votes arrive usually for around 2-5 hours. But sometimes a massive amount of votes can arrive from a curation as much as 4-5 days after you posted.
After all, one can vote on a post up to 7 days and then you get the reward.
I would hate to post, wait 7 days to get rewarded and then post and wait another 7 days. I like logging on to hive and gaining HP and getting paid HBD every day. Even if it is $0.50. But all the time.
Waiting to see the result of your last post is also a killer to motivation. You want either validation, or encouragement, or incentive.
But it will take 7 days to determine the full success or failure of a post.
There is also this inexplicable fact on Hive that some posts with lots of effort sometimes earn little while posts that took less effort sometimes earns way more than the high effort post.
The Solution?
Post every post with exactly the correct amount of effort that it should have to be the post it needs to be. You are the artist. Create it as it should be. Know that if you cheat the process and make something half-baked that you will get a half-baked result.
But once you have published a post, start planning or thinking of the next one.
Your success on Hive is not based on A post. It is based on ALL actions you take on the blockchain.
My response to an underperforming post is to create another potential for reward... by posting again! If you have posted enough, have you engaged and upvoted others enough? Have you read their content and posted comments? Do you re-blog good content?
Do these things and you will see the rewards. Its inevitable.
Why should we Carpe Diem on the blockchain and post more?
Recently it has come to the attention of the moderators and Hive "police" that a whopping 15% of the content on Hive is AI-generated rubbish.
Hive is a social place where you can share your thoughts, your writing, your art, your music, your hobby, your travels, your ideas.
It is NOT there for the milking of bot-rub spam rubbish.
I would rather have someone post 10 times a day about what their cat is doing than see rewards go to accounts that produce content that was not even touched by a human's mind.
Therefore, real human content is full of errors and personality. It is HUMAN. It is real.
And you should never fear posting something because it has a few errors in it.
If I can read someone's blog and notice a spelling error, a formatting error or an opinion that's not like it comes out of a press conference, then you see you are reading about or speaking to a HUMAN.
And THAT is what carries value for me. My interactions with humans.
So get out there! Post! Interact! Carpe Diem!
Thank you for reading my post!
Cheers!
@zakludick
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Sending you Ecency points ♥️
Thank you so much!
You have a opportunity ow with Trump offering you guys to go to the US and it s something to seriously consider. This is your chance.
Right. When you say "you guys" you mean Afrikaaners right?
I am looking into it as per your suggestion. There is a statement but there is not yet any sort of definition that I can find.
It might be centered around those farmers who are expropriated and under the reported threat of genocide.
Sure. I come from an Afrikaans family, but I live in the Western Cape and have nothing to do with that area of the country. Unless the statement becomes that you can apply for refugee status regardless because you are white and in South Africa. My partner, not yet legally married, is not an Afrikaaner. She and her mom have British roots. Would she and her biological so be able to go with me if I could go?
Second question: Is the US really the best place to be? Volatile politics, expensive healthcare etc etc. Will I ne able to find a job that feeds my family.
So yeah... right now its something that begs a lot of questions to be answered.
You are Afrikaans and as far as I know qualify ad you will be fine and do not worry about medical aid etc. I know of a few people already who are going to go and they live in Sasolburg and are not farmers. I think you have to go and check the afriforum site out for further details on what to do. This is a good break and opportunity not to be missed because you are wanted and will be looked after.
I will look into that. I do not see it on the Afriforum website.
What I DO see there is that Afriforum has said that they are not leaving and that they seek solutions to the land expropriation while staying in South Africa.
Ive gone through their website. Nothing.
Ive gone to the US Embassy to South Africa website. Nothing.
When you say your friends from Sasolburg are going, do they mean to go or have they received papers?
Right now all I find is news articles about Trump's statement.