Yeah, I can relate to that. One of the more important reasons why I like steemit, is that I need external motivation to do something cool. Doing high quality writing, photography, music, video or whathave you requires quite a bit of time and effort. Bit I am a bit lazy, and fine as I am to get up and do it. Even if we are talking something more simple, like planning my finances.
I noticed that if I have other people that are interested and I can collaborate with, or who depend on me, I am suddenly much less lazy, more disciplined and better off.
A lot of people here like to talk about selfish but intelligent self interest helping others (which is natural with the amount of anarchists and libertarians we have here), but that is exactly my motivation.
It took me about ten years to go from ignorance, to knowledge about how I best function, to conciously acting on that. Steemit is a platform that is rife with opportunities for such collaboration and help.
I am new to this community, but being part of different communities alowed me to do amazing things in the past. Communities have much more then mere monetary value, it is just something that more new people need to understand, and they'll be better of. Hopefully we as a group can engage more incoming people to stay and do their part.
Currently there quite a few efforts like #usersummary or maybe that FollowFriday tag.
Anyhow this post by @thedashguy is one of such efforts to raise the cohesion between steem users, check it out!