Hello steemians and greetings to all!

Its been a while since I did an easy living series, as much as i’ll like to give an excuse, I feel doing that would be like a sole proprietor losing from work early, and blaming others for it.

Without wasting much time, I first wanna say a big welcome to all those who joined the steemit community in the past month, especially from Nigeria. All through August we saw explosive growth in the number of Nigerians that came into steemit.

Welcome to steemit, here are a few tips

There are many assumptions flying around about steemit, and like a kid in a new school, the written rules may be present, but the unspoken rules are the ones to watch out for, with that in mind, I am dropping these tips, to make your life on steemit, an easy pie.

Dont expect instant payout

I still get messages on my steemchat, whatsapp, discord and anywhere else steemians can find me. The conversation usually revolves about not “getting enough votes” or “what I can do to get enough votes” or anywhere along that line.

The truth I tell people is that steemit isn’t a money making machine, it isn’t meant to start generating funds for you instantly. Its a way to blog and communicate. To meet new people and interact with a community. The payout and votes comes as an incentive for when a user likes your work.

A mentor always says “ don’t be faster than your shadow” and I agree, working towards the money isn’t going to help you anywhere, like I keep saying, steemians can smell a desperate, money hungry fellow from a mile away.

You are not as smart as you think you are.

If there is one thing I have noticed about steemians, its that when it comes to the issue of plagiarism, many people are overtly concerned about where your posts come from, where you references lead to etc.

Follow the rules of steemit, you are not as smart as you think you are.

I personally have caught, as well as the steemit community have caught people doing the listed things below.

• Using a “twister” an “article changer” to change the text of an article you intent to plagiarise
• Copy pasting an article from the Internet without referencing the original work
• Stealing an image from the Internet and claiming it as yours
• Stealing a picture from the Internet and using a fake “source” by re-posting the picture on an image hosting site.
• Using a fake source on your article by “redirecting” it back to steemit
• Using a markdown to put up an empty source on your article

You will be caught, dont do it.

Make connections and dont be an as*hole

One of the golden things you can do is to be a kind hearted, great guy. In a society where your pay depends on how much impact you can have in the community, the best thing you can do is move with positive energy.

In contrast, the worst thing you can do is to be a complete douche. Except you happen to have a very high SP or multiple accounts or are an investor capable of pumping up sp, you’re going to be destroyed by the forces against douchbagry on steemit.

Just be good

I could go on and on about what you should know, hidden rules, and all that, but I believe this should be sufficient for our needs.

I hope, above all things, that we progress and grow on steemit.

Keep on the candle nigeria, lets be the giant that we are suppose to be.

Thanks

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This series is intended to benefit all steemians, however, due to the responsibility on me, I tend to focus on building Nigerians more with this series.

For those who don’t know what this is, easy living is a series dedicated to giving tips and advice, from my life experience and others, so as to live a better life.

Recap from the top

I started running this program from the third month I joined steemit. Before then, I had only one program running on my blog, and that was musical sunday, a day dedicated to all things music.

In a bid to make my blog as neat and organized as possible, I started several programs(some of which never took off).

Easy living was the first of two new programs I run on my blog, the next, was my dear diary series, where I reflect on humans and their behaviors. Their attitude towards themselves and the environment. To understand what makes a human.. . . . . . human. as an be seen in the graphics below

The amount of series Ive run on this is below,

https://steemit.com/nigeria/@destinysaid/easy-living-special-edition-nigeria-and-africa-steemit-tools-that-will-make-your-steemit-journey-far-less-stressful-2017721t11732134z

https://steemit.com/writing/@destinysaid/easy-living-special-edition-nigeria-and-africa-2-steemit-tools-services-you-need-to-know-asap

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@destinysaid/not-making-money-like-you-though-you-would-or-content-or-contact-or-originality-vs-networking

https://steemit.com/nigeria/@destinysaid/easy-living-special-edition-nigerian-and-africa-understanding-your-stance-on-steemit-advice-to-the-new-old-and-all

https://steemit.com/life/@destinysaid/easy-livng-series-or-1-wants-and-needs-or-life