This morning – September 30 – an NFT project came out that I had been waiting for.
I had been following the project for months, watched and read everything they released.
I got up early, ready to mint and become part of the community.
Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned.
The marketplace it sold on crashed within minutes.
It couldn’t handle the volume.
By the time it was back up, everything was sold out.
Not to the smaller community members like myself.
But to large investors who bought in bulk.
Listing it on the secondary market for double or triple the price within minutes.
At that point, I couldn’t (financially) jump in so I went to their Discord channel.
To see how the team and the community were doing.
All I saw was carnage.
It reminded me of the time I worked in mobile games and we had a launch or a big advertising campaign.
Things inevitably go wrong or different from what one expected when working on that scale.
The community was livid.
Particularly the smaller (aka less wealthy) individuals.
You could feel the entitlement others felt they had.
I wanted to help manage the community – because I’ve been in the team’s shoes before – but a messaging limit was in place so I couldn’t do much.
I started my morning pumped, quickly became bummed out and finally felt sadness and pity when looking at others.
It’s been a while since I experienced an emotional rollercoaster like that, so it was a good lesson.
I quickly reset myself because I know:
- Opportunities come and go aka there is always another opportunity
- The world is abundant
- Why be unhappy when you can be happy?
- We are responsible for our own actions, thoughts and beliefs
- We control what happens to us and for us
Today’s events strengthened these beliefs and gave me a stronger conviction and motivation to improve myself to the point that I can reach people, like the ones in the aforementioned community, and help them live more positively and in control of their lives. Time to work.