Hello Steemians (and especially our followers),
We noticed upon waking up this morning that we reached our first milestone of 100 followers (now 105) within 17 days. We came onto Steemit as we wanted a place to start our blog after years of stalling and delaying. We told ourselves at the beginning of the year that 2018 is the year of 'can-dos' and action. We are coming to the end of the first month of 2018 and already Becca has managed to force Sam to go to a beginners (walk-in) salsa class (something he was willing to try, but dreading to do). He conquered his fear of dancing in public without being tipsy or drunk. There is plenty of excitement and adventures to come and we cannot wait to share it with you all!
Firstly, we are here to write about our experiences in life in a creative and hopefully inspirational way. The fact Steemit is linked to a crytpocurrency called Steem and has the ability to pay out authors and curators was a bonus. Some see gaining Steem/SBD payouts as an asset or a monetary value, which it is, but we see it as appreciation votes. What is given to us in SBDs is re-invested back into the platform as Steem Power, so that we can have more influence and upvote great quality posts and comments from all of you! We are in this for the long-term and want to see more and more users on Steemit/DTube.
We hope you all appreciate our small token of gratitude. We realised only yesterday that we were coming closer to the 100 followers mark and we wanted to give back. Yet, as we said, we always re-invested our SBDs straight into Steem Power. However, last night we had a payout and we made sure our SBDs were converted into Steem, which gave us 2.019 Steem. This is not a great deal of money, but it works out to about $9-$10. Sam was studying from home today and you can say he did a lot of that (or not). He spent almost two hours transferring 0.020 Steem to our first 100 followers (well, the last one got 0.019 - sorry @zsh, we did it in alphabetical order and didn't have enough). We thank you all and remember you will always be our original #100
From Sam and Becca - @travelling-two - a MASSIVE THANK YOU for your support and to the next milestone!
Stay Classy Steemians!
Thank you for taking the time to read our post. If you really like our content, please follow us as we post regularly with different topics from Monday to Friday. How about your followers? Would they like this post? If so, please resteem it! Finally, if you are generous, please give us an Upvote! We thank you in advance! Lots of love / @travelling-two
This is so sweet!!! Well done on conquering fears and making this the year of 'can-do' :) Love it!
Thanks @tasteandseeblog! It takes a lot of courage to finally do what you always wanted to try, but there is something holding you back. Let's make this a year of 'can-do' and thanks for the re-steem ;)
We almost tied. We just hit 102 yesterday in our first 16 days. Good work guys.
Ah close! You beat us to it @hustleking. Maybe a race to 500? hahaha
Well done on your achievement and keep it up!
Well done. It takes quite a bit of work. Congratulations!!
Thank you for congratulating us @carey-page! It does take quite a bit of work, but with a bit of elbow grease and determination we can achieve what we want to achieve. You're almost there! Just helped you get there one step closer (to 100 followers).
Yes elbow grease and determination is very beneficial.
Thank you for the help. I love the idea that we all help each other.
Yay! Congrats guys!!
Thank you @raelynnbianca! You'll get there soon. Just woke up, so after getting ready for the day we'll read your Ugly Duckling post. :)
Hello my friends @travelling-two. I just want to say thank you so much again for your gift. I already saw it in my wallet history. I am very happy. I am grateful we became friend through this platform. Upvoted your posts. Take care. Cheers both!
You both look great by the way. :)
Thanks again @itsmechilli! It's great that we are friends too! Look forward to Steeming together. Thanks for your compliments and positive comments! Keep it coming.
Will definitely steem together. I'm a fan of yours as well as friend. Thank you for the friendship I found in you. Thanks for the support, rest assured that I am doing the same, will always will. See you around my friend. Keep steeming. :)
Well done for reaching the milestone and thank you for the kind token of appreciation. You guys are a credit to the Steemit community.
Thanks @derekcowan for your kind comment! Even you are doing your part for the community and we can see you are growing quite quickly. Hopefully, you can represent the Vietnamese Steemit community quite well! Have a good weekend and we'll check out your newest post when we can. :)
You have a great weekend in Hong Kong 🍻
Awesome guys! Keep it coming!!
Thanks @yasminep! Will do ;)
A little thank you to your first 100 followers? How awesome is that!? :D
Could that mean that videos (on Youtube) would be on the horizon too?
@leighlim yes it's quite awesome, huh? It's our little saying to our first 100 that we care and thank them for taking an interest to us. We know some followers just followed and never interacted, but they found us and you never know maybe in the future they will interact with our posts.
We will look into other media streams related to Steem, so DTube rather than YouTube. It could be on the horizon. Maybe more videos that we edit with music etc. and if we feel brave enough later; to feature our faces and voices.
That's so sweet of you guys and thank you so much for your token - I saw it the other day and was pleasantly surprised that newbies like you are already giving back to the community!
I look forward to following you both on this journey :-)
P.S. My boyfriend Liam also wants to learn how to dance salsa - think we will make it as one of our 30-day challenges. Haha
You're welcome @ingaaa! For us, we're using Steemit/DTube to share our passions/experiences and not to milk the system. Whatever comes to us, goes back to the platform (good karma and full circle - what comes around, goes around).
We shall see each other grow and support each other :)
You have to make learning salsa or any type of Latin dancing one of your 30-day challenges. We had an induction session only. Depending on our schedule, we shall see if we can continue with the normal beginner classes. If we can't there's always YouTube tutorials....actually, scratch that...we shall check it on DTube for that. Support the community. ;)
Haha, word. I'm going to look into it tonight and see what and when we can start! Thanks for the push :-)
Any time! ;)