This is a great post that hits plenty of good nerves in the community, while offering a success story and plenty of advice to help people find some inspiration.

• Your hyperlink at the bottom is broken and needs a quick edit at the end (remove the space).

• People should also recognize that writing the best posts in the world will likely not get seen until you have a reasonable amount of followers to see them in their feeds. I'm personally saving my best content for when I have 1,000 followers, and will then shower them with longer material they may actually want to see because I've recruited, engaged, upvoted, and retained them with my shorter stuff. I want my effort to be seen, so this is my strategy to not run out of content when I potentially do become popular. In other words, I've earned their respect so they'll hopefully WANT to search for my material. I've seen this in the #punchline and #funny tags in recent weeks, which has a very supportive community that appreciates humor, or by a daily fitness challenge designed to help each other stay healthy and motivated. -- All to keep me actively blogging, but not spending the hours I used to for virtually no views, and a lot of disappointment.

• I recommend going easy on major blog posts until you've generated 100+ followers from actively writing engaging comments wherever you genuinely feel inspired. Don't force it and don't forget to upvote to show your appreciation. This will give your material a fighting chance to be seen and rewarded by people who will see it somewhere in their feeds.

• I also recommend focusing on 2-3 key high-engagement niches so you can be recognized and earn a reputation more effectively. From my experience, spreading yourself all over the place may water down these efforts.

Resteemed.