What's your upvote plan?

A couple of days ago I wrote a story about trying to find the right balance between writing original content and re-steeming others' original content.

In this post (https://steemit.com/steemit/@drwom/original-content-vs-resteeming) I came to a position where I would try to write 2 original pieces for every 1 piece I resteem.

As a quick look at my blog will show you, this has been harder to achieve then I thought (so many of you are writing/posting great stuff!) but I will persevere!

My other conundrum has been trying to find a way to curb my instinct to upvote everything I even remotely like. This may be explained by my main social media platform until now being Twitter.

I have found it a bit hard to acclimatise to Steemit.

So what is the plan?

I really want to get 500 Steem in my power up, so I'll be able to better divide up my upvotes. At the moment, I can only upvote 10 things a day at my full 0.10 upvote - and if I upvote more than 10 things, my upvote power goes down ie to 0.03 or something. And then it takes days and days of being really frugal to get back to 100%.

With enough steem power behind me, I'll be able to better allocate my upvotes, because you can set the amount of upvote you want to give.

For a better explanation of how this all works see @capitalpink https://steemit.com/steemit/@capitalpink/voting-power-and-steem-power-explained.

So. That's the plan.

I want to get there sooner rather than later as well. Because I am convinced that the price of steem will increase. Its market cap is growing. Its user base (i.e. us, the steemit community) is growing. The steemit website is quickly rising up the list of the top 500 websites in the world.

And the higher the price gets, the harder it will be to make enough rewards to buy steem - because the rewards are in Steem dollars, which are pegged to the $US. Rewards aren't in steem.

In a nutshell. The higher the steem price, the longer it will take us to get 500 steem powered up.