I'll tell you my story about how I got here on Steemit. The first thing that brought me here was money. I'm always honest. I think many of you also started your adventure with this platform because of this. In the beginning, I wanted to be a YouTuber. After some time, I noticed that editing videos were probably not for me, I just did not feel happy with it, and the YouTube algorithm did not help me at all. YouTube used to be better.

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Fortunately, I watched a YouTuber named @carrioner , he had on his channel tutorials on how Steemit works, D.tube, Dlive, and how to make money on it. At first, it was Black Magic For me, but slowly I began to understand how it works. I remember when I made my first 10-20 cents from a post. Excited, I quickly entered Steem Wallet to see if it was really possible to make money here. I look, and on the wallet - ZERO. My first thought: SCAM. Only later I learned that Steem affects Wallet after 7 days. So I started writing more and more. At first, my posts didn't look so good, you know you need the practice to be better.

I played a lot of computer games at that time, and I always wanted to be a streamer. So I delved into the mechanics of Dlive. When I first made $ 10, I thought I was going to pee myself from happiness :D. And since then, I have been working all the time, although I had a few breaks, but we are only human, and we need to rest. After some time, I realized that it is not money that is most important here, and people. What a pleasure it would be to make money but no one would read your posts. None, right? People welcomed me warmly and were happy to help me. That's the beauty of this platform.

I am already the 4x Dolphin. How did I come to this? I wasn't selling Steem at all, I was just accumulating Steem Power. I've always wanted to be a curator and support people. Slowly this dream becomes real. Sometimes you have to Power Down or sell something to have money to live, but I only did that when it was really necessary. I also bought some Steem with my own money. I always felt that this platform has and will have great potential. It's a pity that so few people know about it, but I try to promote it as much as I can.

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I don't think it matters how much Steem Power you have. What matters is what content people write and how much heart they put into it. Do you know what I mean? When you start reading someone's post and it's so well written that you have to read it to the end. Of course, I recommend collecting Steem Power and helping new users, but unfortunately, the financial situation for some does not allow it. Well, such is life, but even these 100 SP collected every month allow you to become a "bigger fish" on Steemit.

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The best way for me to celebrate becoming a "bigger fish" is simply to vote on other users ' posts, especially newcomers. When they are happy, I am happy too :).

As I wrote above, I do not recommend doing Power Down, unless there is really no other way out. You know life is different. Today you can be a millionaire and tomorrow you can have nothing or vice versa. So if you can, even those little Steem to collect, do it. In time, you will see how much more you will gain. Helping others is a great reward for me.