@jaynie I have the same struggle sometimes on my posts feeling like they did not earn enough or did not have much of an impact. What helps me is that when I write I expect 80% of the reading and power of the post will come at least 7 days afterwards from Google search traffic and readers discovering me later that go back through older posts. Like Facebook, Steemit makes it easy to focus on what just happened a few hours ago but unlike Facebook if our posts appear to do nothing in the short term, they might just be getting started in the long term. Many of the most helpful posts I have read were 3 months to 10 months old and just now I am voting up the authors!