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### "Only those who have brains can change their minds."
*E. Wescott*
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I've been in STEEMIT for exactly 143 days, it seems like a long time and if we look at it in detail, it turns out to be a little amount of time.
My numbers do not show anything close to big gains, my vote does not reach $ 0.08 and the money raised by my posts often ends up being just a handful of dollars.. But this community has been able to awaken another part of me that has generated much greater gain in other terms.
The interaction with people, the amount of comments, the amount of talks, work, discussions, games and information exchange have generated a great change in my day to day. Most of the time, all this has brought something positive in my routine, and the new attitudes acquired in this recent days have paid the time invested.
I always thought that we all have something to say, or to teach and share, and the simple fact of having the opportunity to generate money with this ended up being the plus that managed to convince me to keep going.
Beyond all this and as I said before the money and the profits has not been my strong point in STEEMIT, simply generating the interaction and carrying out my ideas away makes me feel more than satisfied with the response of this system.
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Today I still see how I stand firm with this thought and this fascination for creating content and collaborating with so many people in one way or another.
From my first days and since DISCORD was part of my daily applications I have maintained the habit of talking with people and collaborating with anyone who needs a hand.
I remember my first interactions with the @spl and its creators @tuck-fheman and @bigpchef two incredible people who were always willing to help me and guide me through the world of poker in STEEMIT, that's how I ended up collaborating with them and with some banners that I designed at the request of my friend Tuck, who even paid me for this job, I already had my first profit for a service in here.
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Thanks to the @spl I get back to play poker, I had the chance to get a profit for a poker tournament, everything seemed unbeatable, on the other hand I kept writing my articles, my stories, my travels and simply what I am passionate about and interested in.
I wrote about bicycles, about coffee, I talked a lot about animals, my dogs and my cats, I made many post about cars and about my car in special and my love for classics. I always tried to write in two languages, English and of course Spanish, I must say that the community of @cervantes has impelled me a lot to continue telling my stories, like it was @ocd community with my English writing, another place where I had the pleasure to make contacts with people and always maintain good relations.
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Soon I started looking for contests and try my luck in that area, basically I focused on graphic design competitions, logos to be more specific.
I met the contest of @blocktrades where I finished second, and a few days ago I also participated in the contest of @teambarrier, where I won the first prize, I take this opportunity to thank both users for allowing us to be part of this type of projects. one way or another.
On the other hand some time ago I also had the opportunity to know the project and the team of @utopian-io, with @elear and all its sponsors, so I started to form links and investigate a little more about what this was about, this was as I finished writing several articles contributing to the project and trying to improve aspects that from my point of view could be improved.
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I started writing this post to explain a bit my lack of ideas and my absence in writing, all this shows me that the lack of ideas is nothing more than a cloud of smoke that can blind us for a moment and that the content and the creative engine is always there waiting for us. The brain is an incredible organ that has the ability to create from the absolute nothingness and has the privilege of memories and experiences as sustenance in the events that have taken place. We all have something to tell, and there will always be someone willing to listen to us.
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