Hi @Happymoneyman,
Three things....
First of all good luck in your new endeavor. I admire the amount of preparation you appear to be putting into this, I am sure this part of your style has helped lead to your current success.
Second, thank you for sharing your sources of information, I am also coming to Steemit from another venue and I am learning all I can and the more I learn, the more impressed I am with this platform and developers who created it. My hats off to @dan , @ned and others I don't know. While I may never be a witness, understanding how this platform works appears to be essential to success, so I appreciate every nugget of information.
Third and last, I like how you model how a happy, helpful and positive person can be successful on Steemit. You show we can use this platform to help others as a way to be successful ourselves. This is one of the most important characteristics of Steemit that drew me into the platform. We can talk about helping others as a way of life, but we all need to eat and that sometimes leads to "bad behavior". This platform contains multiple streams of income we can earn from helping others or just showing appreciation for the contributions of others. I know that some may consider that self-serving, but it sure is better then hurting others to benefit ourselves and in general helps elevate the caliber of our behavior. We are all humans with faults and weaknesses, but I think parts of this platform help reinforce some of our better characteristics.
Good Luck and you have my vote for witness
P.S.
A big "Thank You" to @Sapphic48 for demonstrating one of my points. @Sapphic48 just volunteers to help you out with knowledge which probably took years to learn and that's amazing...the power of the platform.