Me vs Medium: Starting from zero

It’s 2024 and I am having a fresh start! 🌞

Hello, my Superheroes! 🦸‍♂️😁

So I’m glad that you made it!

If you’re reading these lines it means that:

• It is already 2024. ✅
• You’re still reading my blog. ✅
• You’re awesome! ✅

But let’s travel one month back — to December of 2023.

I won’t lie to you — for me it looked more or less like… a hangover. 🥴😅

You will see everything in graphs but in short — it was like watching a falling star. 🌠

So grab some popcorn and I hope you will have a nice read! 🍿📖

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📊 The Numberitos

So my “numberitos” of December looks like this:

👨🏻‍🏫 My thoughts about it

• So everything was steadily decreasing through December — it was like “sledding down the hill”. Real winter time here!🎿❄️😅
• Overall I’m amazingly happy with the growth of my Medium journey. For me, it’s like a miracle! The thing is that November was so good that sometimes it looks like a long-distant star that it is hard to reach again. 🌟
• Maybe the decrease happened because I was not that active on Medium or maybe most of my superheroes were using their superpowers elsewhere — like packing gifts, writing letters to Santa, and so on. To be honest, I was acting like this too! 🤷‍♂️
• Earning $173.25 in one single day now seems like a mirage, it’s more like in the range of $10–$30 which is not bad, but far from my tattoo challenge. 🖤
• Either way, it’s quite clear that Medium algo’s love is fading away and January will show what is the actual situation. But I am prepared for anything. 🤠
• It is what it is — there will be ups, there will be downs. I can’t do anything about that. The only thing that I can do — focus on the things that I can control like my effort and productivity. 🤹🏻
• So next week, my dearest Readers, I will be completely back home and then... I am planning to start so-called MartynasGPT mode — I will try to publish as many stories as I possibly can! Let’s hope that January will be the most productive month on my Medium journey so far! 🔥

So see you then! :) I’m going to pack my backpack now.

Best of luck to you all! 🌞

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