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<p>I have never had an addictive personality until now.  Steemit has pretty much dominated my life for the last two weeks for better or for worse.  At first it was like riding down the first major hill on a roller coaster.  Now it is more like being stuck upside down on a loop for a week straight.  </p>
<h1>Somebody HEEELLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!   </h1>
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<h1>The Positives</h1>
<p><strong>- Somethings I stopped doing were just wasting my time anyways.  </strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Watching Too Much YouTube</li>
  <li>Reading Too Much Click-bait &quot;News&quot; on Yahoo and CNN</li>
</ul>
<p>- <strong>I was able to initially build up some Steem Power in the system by blogging and Powering Up. </strong></p>
<p><strong>- I have met some cool people from around the world who are looking to build a reputation on here as well.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>- We Raised Over $100 for Cyrus Hostetler who is a Two Time Olympian.  </strong></p>
<h1><strong>The Negatives </strong></h1>
<p><strong>- I have basically stopped going to the gym.</strong></p>
<p><strong>- I haven't been eating healthy at all.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>- My sleep has been disrupted by staying up working on these blogs.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>- I keep waking up thinking about different ideas.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>- I have completely neglected my resell business.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>- I have been ignoring e-mails and comments on my other YouTube channels.</strong></p>
<p><strong>- That last 15 posts have been complete disappointments as far as payouts and attention received from them.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>- I haven't been doing any hiking.  </strong></p>
<p><strong>- I have been ignoring text from people I should be responding to.  </strong></p>
<h1><strong>Realizing I Have A Problem</strong></h1>
<p>I think what started to sober me up a little bit with this was putting in a ton of work and passion into a couple posts that didn't perform near what I felt like they should have.  </p>
<p>The first one was a very emotional post about my grandpa.  <strong>I don't think anyone can go to this post and say it isn't quality work.  It hurt that this didn't get seen.  </strong></p>
<p>https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@brianphobos/hi-i-m-brian-i-wanted-to-introduce-post-a-tribute-to-my-grandpa-and-his-custom-built-sports-car</p>
<p>The positive out of that post was <a href="https://steemit.com/@opheliafu">@opheliafu </a>who is an artist from the UK said it inspired her and she even painted my Steemit name into a piece of art!  That was cool!  We have been checking up on each others work since then. </p>
<p>The second post that was like being dropped on my head was the post to raise funds for two time Olympian Cyrus Hostetler.  It did raise over $100 and obviously part of the money is locked up in Steem Power which I will probably just work with him to pay that out when I power down or just spend more time getting him on here at a later date.  </p>
<p>https://steemit.com/steemit/@brianphobos/an-olympian-needs-our-help-steemit-please-read-this-if-you-have-ever-been-passionate-about-something</p>
<p>People rallied around this and @smooth did upvote it but it didn't catch huge attention from a ton of large whales.  I did meet @repholder who is a European javelin thrower and @craig-grant said the post did inspire him. </p>
<p><strong>I got my hopes up on that post but the war isn't over!  We will get Cyrus more money! </strong> </p>
<h1>The Intervention</h1>
<p>I realized that I'm not eating right and not working out. The posts aren't getting seen or they aren't liked by the whales.  I fell terrible.  Bills are piling up.  </p>
<h3>I fell like Grandma Chain Smoker at the casino slot machine.  :-(  </h3>
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<h1>The Solution For Me</h1>
<p>I'm going to have to step away for at least a day or two and sort of just forget about trying to check up on posts.  I need to just concentrate on my diet, working out, selling stuff for my resell business, and paying bills.  </p>
<p>I have over $11,500 in inventory right now that I need to turn over and the majority of my money is stuck in my house that I need to be working on selling as well.  </p>
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<p>Thank you for reading my post!  </p>
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