There is a popular adage I was told by my parents once and today, I know the meaning of it “if you don’t climb to the mountain; you can’t view the plains. Every steemian is given an equal opportunity to earn rewards, to some are given 14SP, some 100sp, some even 500sp with a 24 hours period to invest these steem powers wisely.
I would want to tell the story of the talent of steem power. I hope I pass five important messages to steemians that are interested. The parable of the talents in the Bible in Matt 25:14-30 is likened to my story here.
HARD WORK PAYS. Our individual hard work on steemit cannot be overemphasized - every steemian ought to write a good introductory post that portrays him to the steemit community. A shabby introduction might hide you forever and your posts will be buried up in the sands of time. As steemians, we are given equal voting power to decide today and always how much we investment we would input into the platform. We can learn to visit uprising steemians post and curate their post. You never can say, your 25% reward maybe awaiting your wallet in 7 days’ time. Success on steemit is working diligently to author and curate posts. By doing that, we are investing part of our precious time into the system and it surely comes with a good reward.
My short stay on steemit has exposed me to different money making ventures, ranging from a contest organized by whales to the creation of original works to create value for the ecosystem. We all entered steemit with same steem points and steem dollars, and how we harness it to make it count after 7 days is up to us. Have you wondered how much a talent is worth in today’s dollars? It is hard to know for sure on steemit, yet whatsoever its worth after 7 days, maybe even as much as a million dollars in today’s currency.
EQUALITY IS A MISNOMER. The parable of the talent teaches us that we are all don’t possess the same the same talents’ am sure, it won’t take you long to notice that every person that upvotes for your work or curates your work has a certain curation reward which may range from a certain steem dollars to infinity. The most important part of this illustration is this “steemit gives each steemian according to his ability”, steemit understood that the 14sp steemian was not capable of giving returns like the 100sp steemian. Naturally, we will want to protest this as unfair, yet deep inside us, we know this is true from our own experiences on steemit. But even though we were not created equal in regards to the daily steem points, there is equality found in the parable of the talent. Steemit dishes out our reward as our participation and efforts in the community.
CREATE VALUE FOR THE COMMUNITY.The parable of the talents teaches us that we should work for the steemit community and not for our own selfish purpose. The steem point given to steemians is not our own, the reward is not ours to keep. Take a look at other communities e.g. Facebook, Twitter, there is no such reward for posting there. The steemians are only stewards of the community, it is their quality of stewardship that the community seeks to measure. We should maximize the use of our steem points and talents to bring value to both ourselves and the community at large, the community will gain new blocks in the blockchain each time you come up with a creative post on steemit, and you get rewarded after 7days. Success only occurs when we take action!!!
ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE WATCHWORD The parable of the talent is not about salvation or works righteousness, but how we use our works to fulfill our stemit calling. The lazy steemian didn’t waste his steem power, he wasted an opportunity, as a result, he couldn’t get the maximum result for his steem point, we are responsible for all our actions, for when judgment day beckons on the 7th day, our creativity shall speak for our rewards. What we gain from our creativity on the 7th day is up to us. We can’t have a better tomorrow if we are still thinking about yesterday all the time.
Today I was rewarded with a badge from #steemitboard because of my small contribution to the community. I dedicate it to my followers who found me interesting and my new friends I have come to meet in this lovely community. We can be the best in the community, to be “your best” is different from being the best.
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Do any of these lessons make value to you? Which one and why?
Thanks for sharing with us such a wonderful post. I have learnt alot from it.
Have learnt to put all my best in anything am doing....you just refresh my memory on why am here....Thanks so much
@joagawu keep pushing, the sky will be your starting point. Its always good to put in all
@antigenx. I love the way you brought out these lessons connected them with the parable of the talents. Accountability does because it reminds us that to get something we have got to give something. Thanks again
@thelovejunkie thanks for stopping by today. I feel in love with your username. Hope it's OK to crush on you sometimes. Accountability remains the watchword in everything we do in life. Thanks for your feedback. @antigenx
Just stay YOU and original.... Trust me when I say it pays
@klynic thats true bro, i will heed to the advice
This is epic, I'm going to put in more into this community and I'm sure hard work will be rewarded. Thanks for such motivation.
And please invite me to church next sunday.
@royaltiesboss-eu I sure will. I hope next Sunday's sermon will be inspirational. Lol
Salient facts i have change my overall view about steemit, if you want your work to be notice you must be engaging. Though my intro was not that topnotch, i never allowed it not to weigh me down because i made a vow i must get it right here in steemit
@eprolific we just have to make steemiams appreciate our inherent creativity
Steempower Very important on steemit blockchain
i tell you my brother
Although I don't fully grasp the work of steem power and powering up or down or selling these things, I still get that you're saying we should take our work here serious.
Then another thing, can you explain to me the value and use of steem power. I know its valuable but I'd like to know how valuable and what I can do with it.
@its-kg Thank you for finding time to peruse my post. I appreciate it. steem power is your voting right on steemit. Let me put it like this, the influence/weight your upvote contributes to a post by an author. the community is driven by steem, so when we make post on the community, we are creating blocks on the steem blockchain (i will call that mining. if only you unerstand) , the more we post the more blocks we create, and this generates steem to power up the community. our reward for this is the steem power which is given back to us to continue our good works. You can earn steem by hardwork and also you can choose to buy steem if you are buoyant .
you can draw me back if you didnt understand all i said
I learned a great lesson from this post
I am glad you found the post useful @lorenzo1420
I really did learn a lot from this post,God bless you.
@sophy66 thanks for your kind words of encouragement. You are most welcome.
Steem Power realy plays a vital role in steemit community. Keep it up
thanks brother @maintain4real-eu
Congratulations on your award. My motive as always been never give up and always remain original like they do say in the place I came from (photocopy e no eazi) once have thought of given up but once I saw this again my thought change, thanks for passing a wonderful information to us all. Stay bless.
@drayhazz i am glad this post reminded you of the mechanism of steemit. Thanks for congratulating me, i appreciate. I dedicate the award to you my new found friend here
thanks for the inspiration sir......that was good
My pleasure sir @fidelpoet
Thank you for this inspiring post @antigenx.. I've learnt a whole lot from it. Being here on steemit has so far been a test of my hardwork and it has added great value to me...
@antigenx, this indeed has a great lesson in it. I must that the community is fair to all and all in the community have equal opportunity to the top.
The parable of talent talks about this and I am really glad you were able to coin out the real lesson from steemit point of view to enlighten steemians.
First of all CONGRATULATIONS and more of the good works you have always.
Lets do this bro..
Kudos!
I have upvoted you and back upvote
Very informative
Keep it up...
@fidelmboro Tanx bro, so good to stop by my blog. Would expect another visit soonest
Steemit is indeed the place to be. Thanks for sharing @antigenx
Great job doc.. Steemit community has a whole lot of potentials and benefit. I even discovered another one today called vests. Which can be converted to steem..
Thanks alot for your post!
I am me @brightfame
Hmmmm! The wisdom embedded in these lines of parable is magnificent. Great piece of information and advice. Will try a lot to adopt the lessons learnt here. Thanks @antigenx
Thats what am planning to do with the contest am about to win. So i can upvote those with good content which equals higher value.
Wish you success bro. Gods grace
I have learnt wisdom in using what you have , keeping it neither helps you nor what you ve kept.... So i choose to participate, curate and upvote, i choose to use my steem power also...as i now know its all for good