"After Rain Comes Sunshine..."
You can probably imagine how a broken tooth can affect your social life in different ways. You're constantly focused on your mouth and your teeths so whenever you talk with someone you feel socially awkward and you're desperately trying to hide the broken tooth. You try to avoid eye contact and you're constantly trying to never stand face to face with someone. You try to stand more "shoulder to shoulder" so to speak, which obviously makes people wonder what the hell is wrong with you. You might also try to never stay still, as that would make it easier to spot that empty space between your teeths.
This is what I've been doing during this last week. I don't know about you, but this affects me tremendously. I couldn't get an appointment until next week, so I've had to endure this for more than a week. Hopefully, everything will be okay, so they're able to fix this...
I've never had to endure a week with a gap between two teeths because one of them decided to burst into two pieces for some reason. It's hard to explain, but that's basically what happened. I just felt something on my tounge, and it was a piece of my tooth. I haven't experienced any pain, which I'm obviously grateful for, but it's extremely annoying and it feels awkward. I wish I would've said that I had insane pain... That would've given me an appointment sooner.
- I hate being honest.
After rain comes sunshine... And that's what I wanted to talk about today. It's about trying to focus on the positive things, and even though there are nothing positive with having a broken tooth, other things have been great and positive in many ways.
In fact, this has probably been one of the most motivational and inspiring weeks in a long time. Even though many of these things started a few weeks back, it isn't until now we can fully understand how amazing it has been.
We Made 316 Minnows In One Month:
"On the 5th of March we announced we were going to make 250 new minnows on STEEM in a month. The aim of this event was to kick start and raise awareness an initiative by @steevc to create #tenkminnows by the end of this year. With a passion to support those powering up and helping to create a strong middle class on STEEM, it was a no brainer for @steemcommunity to step forward, set a target and deploy a plan to achieve it."
Minnow-ASAP:
During the "250 in a month" push, I also lauched the Minnow-ASAP. An initiative to push only a few selected red fish for a few weeks in an attempt to strengthen our STEEM foundation.
"These people are below the "usual" limit of 450 Steem Power that most other initiatives have, but Minnow-ASAP does not exclude users depending on their size. We judge and base our support out of kindness, generosity and willingness to support "lesser" accounts in an attempt to strengten the middle class on STEEM."
I am glad to say that we've had great success so far and each of these 4 users we have pushed has come a long way. @wildhomesteading, @kansuze, @skramatters and @curatorcat currently sits at: 334 SP, 395 SP, 211 SP and 397 SP.
Minnow-ASAP + #tenkminnows = Awesomeness.
"#TenKMinnows is a long-term project that will help anyone who is determined to become a minnow (and beyond). So we are now following the current ASAP recruits @wildhomesteading, @kansuze, @skramatters and @curatorcat. We will be giving them some votes and @steevc is giving them an extra SBI share each."
OCDB Whitelist:
About two weeks ago, I saw the OCDB recommendation post and I quickly wrote a comment in an attempt to nominate myself. I've never been good at promoting myself, but it's safe to say that everything went well.
I'm not sure if those comments had any impact or not, but I have been added to the whitelist and I am obviously grateful for the awesome comments and for the opportunity to be added to the list.
Magic Dice:
I have been able to get more than 4.2 million Magic Tokens, which was my goal when I started to "invest". 4.2 million tokens seems to yield me anything between 4 and 11 Steem per day in daily dividends. This is an incredible passive income and who knows, it might result in greater profits when the SMTs are launched. Until then, I'm satisfied with the passive income I have. 4-11 Steem per day is obviously just an estimation and it might change with time. However 4 Steem per day equates to 120 Steem per month or 1460 Steem per year.
- I'm obviously satisfied with a passive income like that.
Thank You For An Awesome Week!
