Ninth Month on Steem! My Progress so Far and a new goal before the year ends!

Yep! As you can see I now have a natural Steem Power of over 1000+ !!!

For months now I have been very vocal about my Steem Goal of achieving at least 1000SP before the year ends. Luckily it only took me around 9 months to get that much power without investing any real money on Steem. Yayy me XD

I have to admit that I'm probably one of the luckiest plankton-turned-minnow to have joined this platform. To those who don't know me, I joined this platform last December 28. For almost a month, my blog posts/comments didn't get that much support and love on the platform. Luckily I stumbled upon @abh12345's Curation and Engagement League to which I got to know the first ever Steemian with a decent SP to believe and support me, @techslut.

I really owe this two a lot as without them I would probably have left this platform already. I mean who would want to stay if you see a copied-meme on 9gag earning over $100+ and your 500-word article is earning only less than a dollar? Lol (Not in any way saying I am a good blogger but I honestly think my blog posts back then are far more better than a copied meme)

Luckily back then @techslut's upvotes was being followed by an orca/whale @fminerten and @steempty and so I was earning at least $3 on my blog posts (well at least for almost a month as she become way busy with her job at Utopian). Because of her upvotes I was able to afford bidbots and somewhat "buy" visibility on the platform. Over time I was able to increase my SP just by recycling my liquid payouts to the bidbots. Up to this day I still really do think it was all worth it. Since this is more like a hobby for me I honestly don't mind if money-wise I lose some, as long as my SP is somewhat increasing then it is far more than okay for me.

So Thank You once again @abh12345 @techslut @fminerten and @steempty :)

Anyways, I continued doing that for months (bidbots) while also taking advantage of the Busy bots. Along with my 1000SP goal before the year ends, a side goal of increasing my followers_mvest was added in order to increase the upvote I receive from the Busy bots. I also joined some communities like @qurator, @make-a-whale, @jumbot and @silvergoldbotty to increase my daily guaranteed upvotes.

By last week of May my luck continues as I got to know @neoxian and @dimimp to which I owe really big time on my huge growth on Steem. As a member of Dimimp's Space Force, I received 1250 SP delegation on June allowing me to increase my delegation to some communities I am a part of in exchange of daily guaranteed upvotes. This however was converted to liquid Steem by August at a ratio of 6:1. In total I received around 270 liquid Steem from @dimimp all of which was powered-up by yours truly. Thanks @dimimp! :)

Neoxian alone single-handedly contributed around $476.02 on my posts and comments combined. WOWW right? I am still speechless when I see this numbers. Thank You Very Much once again Mr. Dragon. :)

Ohhh and my luck still continues. A month after I lost my 1250 delegation, @nathanmars steps up and delegated around 777SP out of nowhere making my effective SP back to 1000. I honestly didn't expect that delegation! So Thank You very much once again @nathanmars! Hope this delegation stays for a long time (or at least after the year ends) lol

Anyway as I what I have been up to the previous month, I have been very active lately on Musing answering questions. That platform is probably the perfect platform for a know-it-all like me who just likes answering questions LOL So yeah nothing much really :)

MY NEW GOAL

I didn't expect this post to be this long. Since I now have achieve my 1000SP goal way before the year ends and since two weeks ago I joined @steemcommunity's Minnow Power UP League. My new goal now is to be on Level 2 on that league. In other words 1500SP before the year ends which I think is now totally achievable at my current level if everything just stays the same. Heck I am even considering on 2000SP before the year ends but that would mean 10SP per day which is just too much.

Also my side goal of increasing my followers_mvest is still up, if you are a dolphin/orca/whale who accidentally stumbled upon this little minnow, I know you wont upvote it but can I just instead request a follow? I don't resteem and have a strict One Post per day policy so your Feed won't be that much flooded. :) No? Okay! Ha ha

Well once again Thank You very much to all the people who have been a part of my Steem Journey! To people who have put me on auto-upvote, people who have been very interactive on my blog posts and comments and to people who made this platform fun for me Thankssss! I always reciprocate what I have received! :)

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