Steemit Engagement Challenge 4 | STEEM GROWTH CONTEST - Theme : How many hours have you spent on steemit in the last week

Can one be inside a river and be able to calculate how many times water touches her body? It is obvious that the person's whole body is emersed in water. Food4thought from me. Greetings dear members of steem entrepreneur community, it is my delight to take part in this contest for the week about how many hours I spent on steemit and contributing to steem growth.

@ngoenyi and steemit have become inseparable as a result of her numerous activities. She eats and breathes steemit, hahahahaha! How is this possible?

Steemit activities over the past week are related to making posts

I am starting with this point. When it comes to making post, I did that in the past 7 days. Below are the post links of the Publications I made last week

The screenshots of my publications reveal how many days or hours they were made

On the whole, I have made 8 publications in the last 7 days. These publications include the reports I made both as a country representative, as a greeter and as an African representative. These reports take more time to make than even my other publications. If I make more than 1 (1.14) post a day, and it takes me 2 hours on average to publish a post, it therefore means that I have spent 2.28 hours a day to write post daily in the last 7 days and on the whole of the week, I spent 15.96 hours making post out of 168 hours in a week. Not bad at all.

Steemit activities over the past week are related to reading posts belonging to other users

This is the aspect of my activities in steemit that take most of my time. The time I spend reading post that belongs to other users are enormous. I am a greeter in newcomers community and as such, I read achievement posts before verifying them.

I am an African representative in steemwomens club community and as such, I have the duty of rating all entries from all the users from Africa and I can't do that without reading through the publications.

I am an African representative for steemfoods community and I read and rate publications and this takes considerable time too.

I read few in steemkids community because most of my time went into the other communities.

I also read publications of other users apart from my duties as a representative. This is because we are in the era of engagement and I have to engage with other users by reading their publications

I am also a steemit community curator that handles 07. A day is allocated to this but within the day, I spend 12 hours in a week for the day I am to take turn, looking for Publications to curate as well as reading, replying and upvoting.

If I am to allocate time to all these , I will allocate 6 hours to reading publications for each day in the last 7 days and that is a total of 42 hours. If I add the 12 hours I use during the time I handle 07 which is 12 hours, it will sum up to 54 hours in a week

Steemit activities over the past week are related to reading messages, replying to message

Reading and replaying massages is also another wonderful thing which I do in steemit. Of course, after reading a post and making comments on them, the next is to reply to massages because they must come.

Especially as a greeter and representative, if there is any thing to be corrected iN the Publications I read, I will leave a suggestion for improvements. Most time the users response and once I get notifications, I quickly rush to read and attend to them. Reading massages and replying to them takes much time too but not like reading post. So for the past 7 days, I will allocate 1 hour each day for that and that will be 7 hours in the past 7 days.

Steemit activities over the past week are related to reading new steemit information, steem promo activities

Steemit information doesn't come often. For the past week, it has come only one and that is steemitblog update which I read but it didn't take time. I go round the steemit to check for other information especially comments from 01 and 02 or from reputable users like the Gorilla and others. I only read and then check other people's comment and replies. If they address my own questions, I don't bother adding mine, I learn from the replies. So I don't really spend much time here.

I can only say that for the past 7 days, I spend 30 minutes looking for updates. And that is 3 hours and 30 minutes.

As regards Steemit promotion. I did take part in the past 7 days. I recruited a friend who visited my office. A lot of efforts were spent trying to set him up. He needed a device as his got damaged. So, I assisted him to buy from an easy buy outlet where he made a part payment and is to balance off within the next 4 months.

I followed him all through this to ensure that everything goes well. In the end, he signed up. I also guided him to write his achievement 1
Achievement 2

It takes time and efforts to help a newbie out in these achievement posts. He has also written his first diary game post and his is preparing for other activities.

this is I and @emirateprince555, waiting to be attended to in the phone shop at Tropicana mall

Not to forget is the time I spend guiding other users who asks so many questions in both WhatsApp and telegram groups as well as in my dm.

If I am to allocate time to all these, I will allocate 3 hours a day to them. In fact, I don't ignore questions of such. Even if I am eating or cooking, I do attend to them. They are fun to me and I enjoy doing them. The total hours is 21 in the past 7 days.

Summary

15.96 + 54 + 7 + 21 equals 97.96 hours in the past 7 days out of 168 hours there is in a week are what I have spent in steemit. It therefore means that I have spent 70.04 attending to myself, my family and my Christian life.

Well, it is too much, you may say, but I am in the ocean of steemit and therefore,I must be soaked. I enjoy steemit and it has become my full time employment.

Before I joined steemit, I had a good number of things I was doing to take care of myself. Even when I joined till the first 6 months, I was taking care of myself with my earnings elsewhere. But my responsibilities have increased here in steemit over time and I have suspended every other thing. Since I can post my food, my other activities during the time I am active and awake, steemit has taken over most of my time and hours as you have seen.

This is possible because even though I have laptop, I prefer using my cellphone which is mobile and I do everything in steemit with it. So wherever I am, I am active in steemit even in the farm, hahahaha, I think I need deliverance.

write your opinion about the benefits of the Steemit Engagement Challenge

The steemit engagement challenge has a uniting spirit. Previously, I used to believe that when you are in a particular community posting, it will not be wise to cross bother. But my thoughts about it has changed completely with this engagement challenge.

Since users can post across communities, we have been more united than ever. It has opened opportunities to make new friends from different communities.

It has activated the spirit of engagement in users. Previously, most users will only publish contents and run away, only waiting for upvotes. Logging into steemit again will just be to check for notifications of upvotes. If it were only comments, most becomes annoyed by it. But now, there is need to engage with others and this has kept us all busy within the past 3 weeks of this engagement challenge.

There is much focus now on the part of the users who now have a goal in mind, which is to take part in all 7 contests across the 7 communities. No one is wondering about what to publish and where to publish it.

Many inactive steemians are back as a result of this engagement.

The hosting communities have also benefited a lot though it is a lot of work on them but they can now have more active posters and they are receiving up

Suggestions

I believe that this community engagement challenge will be fine tuned with time just like other projects of the steemit team. For instance, other communities are loosing out. Their active poster are dwindling because much focus is on the hosting communities. Additionally, no single support to the other communities unlike previous projects where other communities posts are supported though not like the focus communities.

• I will suggest that the communities be alternated on a weekly basis. What I mean is, if seven communities should host contest this week, next week will be another seven communities. This will allow the hosting communities time to be able to check all entries and will not put much pressure on them. This will also make other communities have the opportunity to have active posters, instead of being like a dead zone.

• There should also be some rewards for the moderators as an extra because they put in much efforts to review entries.

• Other community publications should be supported though it may not be like the hosting communities. This will also help them to have sense of belonging.

The above are my kind suggestions. The decision of the steemit team supercedes mine.

Conclusion

I have been able to breakdown my activities here in steemit to let you know how many hours I spent last week here in steemit. These are just estimates because it is very likely that the time I spent might be more than what I outlined.

I have also share my Promotional activities as well as how I went about it.

I have stated the benefits of this engagement challenge as well as my suggestions for improvements.

I am glad that you all stopped by to read through. Thanks to you all. I will like @patjewell, @madilyn02 @mile16 and others to come take part in this challenge.