Just a couple of months ago I was still under the precious dolphin range and I set a goal for myself before the markets turned around. As we all know, these bear markets are an opportunity to accumulate tokens after all. The number I had set seemed kind of crazy, at least to me but here I am, above target.
The day I wrote the post I was only a couple of hundred tokens away from the precious 5k, so I knew that just setting that as a goal was quite bland. So, I wrote down 8k before the year ends, and here we are, two months still to go and over 9k. Needless to say this makes me smile quite a bit, since it doesn't seem too long ago that this was possible for yours truly.
I'm going to set a new goal, hence the reason for this short post on my phone. 12k before we all say goodbye to 2018. Can it be done? I don't know, but I'll give it my best. Funnily enough, I'm a full time steemian so I'm one of those crazy people who has been trying to pay the bills doing this. Yes, I'm crazy I do admit as much.
Honestly, if I had one good piece of advice to anyone who is giving this a go is this: set a goal, the sooner the better, and then be obsessed about it until you get there. That's "the trick".
Oh by the way, I know you've been laughing at that ridiculous picture of me. Yes, that was intentional, because no matter how hard we work at this, we can't forget something crucial... To have fun.
Much love my friends, and keep on steemin
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Thanks for the free laugh. The picture is actually funny. You can try shaving your head next. :)
I'm sure you'll reach the 12k mark
Hahaha. there you go. That was my impression, from the look in your eyes you were hiding something.
Hiya @meno, I never set a target, but now looking at your post I wish I had. I was thinking maybe 1000sp by january 2019 would be nice, I am nearly at 700sp now.
Do you have any tips on how to increase my sp like yourself? I would love to hit 3000 steem power by the end of the year, I just can't see me reaching that as at the moment my posts only hit about 30 to 60c each. would love some advice on how to increase my upvotes
thank you
its different for everyone, but when i was a lot smaller I had a target of 10 good comments and two posts per day no matter what.
Today, there are apps that can help you make the best out of commenting like musings - if you like teaching and answering questions (which i do) you can make a killing there.
That's good to know, what is musings and where do I find it, I have never heard of it before. I like to answer questions which is what I pretty much have to do everyday anyway so why not get paid for it. does it run in the steem blockchain?
I used to comment loads, and not just the crap some people put like
ie, nice picture, or that's great.
I used to go into depth and ask questions as I am actually interested not because I was wanting an upvote or anything.
I have spent countless hours on here, i was like you wanting to quit my job and live of steem as i think it is an amazing place, but I have seen a decline in upvotes and comments and I feel like I am losing momentum because of it.
I have also never asked anyone to follow me, I just have never been in that place to ever ask, I get a little annoyed when people as me too, so I feel like they would feel the same.
I am happy that you replied back, at least someone as answered a question that I have been wanting to know the answer too. :D
Oh Arton, I believe that one should love the comment section... if you are a blogger or a content creator, your comment section is your lobby, you gotta treat it like people walking into your gallery.
You gotta greet them, make them feel welcome.. it's just common sense to me, really.
The website for you brother:
https://musing.io/
Break a leg, you are gonna love it.
wooowoooo thanks my man @meno your a legend I am going to rip it up haha. :D
Nice strategy :) I set up a goal for myself till new year. Thanks for the inspiration.
do it brother, its the only way our brain is wired to keep us motivated.
Oh man, that's so good! Good luck with your SP! It's always good to set your goal a bit higher so that it motivates you much more.
I just reached my first 1000SP and wrote a post that I want to have 5000SP at the end of the summer. I set my goal way too high but who knows what can happen!
Have a great day!
Espero logres tus metas...
Te envío un fuerte abrazo y mis mejores deseos para tu vida, Gracias por todo lo que haces por la comunidad hispana.
los primeros 1000 son dificilisimos, pero despues se pone mas y mas facil.
More than good going dude!
that’s awesome man. huge congrats.
beginning of the year i told myself i’d do my best to hit 5k. i thought i’d be lucky to get to 3k
here i am. 100 sp to go.
amazing what happens when you put a goal down and work your butt off for it.
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oh man, you got this!
Goals are important. Very important. Great job you deserve it all!
thanks bud... ;)
Hell yah you can do it. I will give you my tiny little upvotes the whole way on your way.
Good STEEMit business advice. So good to have so many others having blazed the trail and people reinventing the trail and doing it now.
thank you my friend, I appreciate the support and the kindness.
Happy to do it.
If you wanna do something, ask someone who has done it and do what they did. I just wanna follow your lead into dolphin-hood. Though I am still working on becoming a minnow, doesn't hurt to look forward.
I got my daily dose of motivation!
Stackin like a mad man 😂
tis the only way!
Definitely possible! I had 5k as a goal and have passed it! Maybe 7-8k now? I am sure you will make it!
shoot for 8, you can do it!! you've been hustling so i mean it!
to the 12k then!!! glad that you achieved your first go faster than you expected!
its the time to put seeds on the ground, harvest is still months away my friend.
That's wonderful that you set a goal and then crushed it! If anyone can crush your next goal, it is definitely you. Thanks for sharing your success and keep charging forward!
Ivy
Thank you dear ivy!
My goal for 2018 is 2k... Kind of hard with my country economic situation, forces me to sell some SBD all the time...
Hope you become a whale soon, and i become a dolphin :D
You've been hard at it for a long time my friend, im sure you will get there eventually... ;)
You’re the man, Meno.
thanks bud!
Setting goals indeed can be a motivation but one has to set the goal carefully! If it just like high jumping, if the set the bar the low you can just step over it but when you raise it too high it won't be possible!
My goal is to reach 750SP before we say goodbye to 2018 and if everything goes according to plan, I will have to set a new goals after one month from now!
Will follow you closely on your journey and will make sure to upvote your posts so that you will have a small wing man :)
Cheers,
Peter
Thank you Peter!!! you can hit that number, I'm sure!
Good effort, sometimes we surprise even ourselves with what we are able to achieve. Who would have thought you could look so freaky and sinister in a photo. Also the hair growing out your shirt adds an element of crazy.
Oh and congrats on surpassing that target you mentioned ;) I have a feeling you will achieve your extension as well. Good luck!
I just wanted to ask why so serious, until I saw that you just picked this as a tag, haha! I guess Batman doesn't ever smile, does he?
You have all reasons to be happy, very well done!
Crossing my fingers for hitting the next target soon..:-)
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True stuff man. My goal was 10K. When I hit that I started diversifying and have slowly grinded up to 12K while doing so.