Yes, I've had a couple interesting turning points in my quite short life (I'm 23) which, when I look back at now, I can really see how they made me into the person I am today and how they shaped my current reality. Some of them were positive while others, not so much. What's interesting about this, is that the bad decisions I made in life, that resulted in some serious consequences, are the ones from which I've learned the most from, and which made me into a much better person in the end.
Negative stories aside, I would like to share one that had the biggest influence on my financial life and got me close to a point where I could be able to free myself from the tyranny of the modern financial system. If all goes well though.
I was always looking for ways to separate myself from the regular workforce and trying to find ways to work for myself. Whether it's a business idea or an investment of any sort that could return some nice profits. I was spending most of my days trying to find opportunities that would free me financially. They couln't be regular jobs, as those are hard to find in Croatia if you don't have connections high up, which I don't have. So I needed to create something where I could work for myself. Doing something I like, when I want and for how long I want.
I never wanted to be anyones b**** anyway. Working a shitty 500€ a month job that doesn't pay for anything else than the rent and utilities was worse than prison. It was enslavement.
Circa 18 months ago
Browsing the internet for opportunities I stumbled upon the DollarVigilante on youtube aka Jeff Brewick. Ever since the first video I was in love with his mentality and disgustment with the todays society, control system, governments and the monetary system. I was hooked. Literally started watching his videos backwards, all the way up till the first one he published.
A couple of weeks went by and I was going through my morning routine of drinking coffee while checking out the new DollarVigilante video. I can't remember really what he was talking about but it doesn't matter. What matters though is one little word he mentioned. Do you want to know which word it was? He said "Steemit". And described it as a way to oppose the massive censorhsip that is happening and a way to earn some cryptocurrency for blogging. I was so interested in what he said that I quickly paused everything I was doing and wen't on to see what Steemit is and how to get started.
Instantly addicted
It didn't take me more than a minute to create my account. For some reason the account creation system bugged out and I got my account the same day. It then took me a week to realize that Steemit isn't a scam and about two months to realize what it's all about, how and why it works and all of the technical mumbo-jumbo which I felt was neccessary to understand to maximise my chances of success.
When I figured it out I was so overwhelmed by the feeling: "This is going to be the next big thing. I'm so glad that I got here this early" and "Ok, now it's time to stack as much STEEM as possible because it won't be worth this little for a long time". I was and still am to this day 100% sure that Steem has only massive success written in its future. From then, to this day, I have devoted most of my days to the STEEM blockchain because I can see how, if I really dedicate my full attention here I could quite easily liberate myself from the schackles of the financial system.
Only hard work and dedication
With only Steem in my mind for the next 16 moons I focused my attention on earning as much STEEM as I can because I knew, I won't have a long time before it becomes so valuable its too hard to earn anything. I admit that by my first estimate STEEM should already be mooning but, I care not about its current price. I'm quite happy to see it tank all the way down to 0.7 because that means that I can actually earn more STEEM tokens in the end. And even though they are worth less now, it doesn't matter. I earn more tokens! As I said so many times before, I'm not here for the short term gains, and will never, if I don't need to, sell any of my SP. I'm here for the next 10, 20 years, as I can see the potential and what the long run will bring.
Up until today I was able to earn about 5.2k and have bought 1k STEEM. Looking at the current price of STEEM I could have earned more by working on that 500€ a month job but, there were so many times I was earning 2x,3x more than I ever could earn with a normal job here in Croatia.
STEEM is my lottery ticket
If all goes well for the Steem blockchain and STEEM price get's where it deserves to be, I'll be a millionaire in my national currency. I won't sell any of it though, but what I want to be able to do is, to live of curation rewards. If I can achieve that, life is GG and all financial problems are gone. If I can fully support myself through rewarding other content creators then I really have nothing to worry about. At least not financially.
That is what I'm trying to achieve and why I'm devoting my full attention to the Steem blockchainand even though it might not be visible on my blog currently. It's all because of the Dlie fiasco which I still didn't recover from. I'll just need a couple more days and I'll be back, better than ever.
Anywaay, sorry for the ramble guys but to conclude, watching that DollarVigilante video and how I reacted to it was probably the most important decision I ever made.