I'm also here to look for some good pieces of advice from my fellow brothers.
Honestly, t's been quite a long time since I haven't focused on merits as I'm not sure why but a motivation to achieve a rank always forced me to put in some extra effort, and these days due to some other busyness in life things are slipping like sad from a closed palm.
Anyway, be natural give something productive and organic in the local community and you'll get the merits.
same as me, I also haven't received merit for a long time and haven't focused on merit
I got my first merit when I posted and gave information on this forum to people who asked,
so the more information you have and you share it with people who don't know yet, and it is useful for them, merit will come to you by itself