I had thought many times of writing a very similar post, good thing you actually did it! Agree with everything said here, especially with:
Just relax and enjoy the fact that you can easily make awesome friends from around the world and do what you feel passionate about, the money will come.
Hope many new steemians get to read this!
Do it! Try to add some things I forgot.
I am starting to realize that I have a substantial amount of influence here, at least compared with when I started so I want to try and keep people here through their sophomore "year", which I'm my opinion is much harder than the freshman “year". How long is a steem year? Maybe 3-6 months? I mean after the honeymoon