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Having a goal for the year.

At the start of this year I had set a goal of reaching 10,000SP. I put monthly goals in place and aspired to turn up every day and keep growing.

To build any profile or network it's vital to show up every day and put in the work. When I started here first, I couldn't get noticed and it took months of posting and commenting to build up connections on the blockchain.

People can complain about not getting votes but the reality of the situation is that no matter what type of club, business, social media or activity that you join into you will need to introduce yourself. You would have to go around the group and say hello to everybody. Tell them who you are and what you like. STEEM is no different. People won't necessarily go and find you, you will need to go and find them. Search out people with similar interests as yourself and get yourself seen.

Now at the start of the year 10k seemed out of reach from where I started but growth on STEEM is exponential. The longer you are here and the more Steem Power that you build up, the more that you will earn back. STEEM is more than just a social media front end, it is a decentralized platform for hosting all sorts of apps, games, wallets ect...

Creating a blog or used as a site to play games on. It's an opportunity that I have not seen anywhere else to build your own brand online across a whole eco-system. It can also be used as an investment opportunity.


Another opportunity that has been offered to us is the low price of STEEM at the moment. Seeing it drop to below 13c amazes me as every day we are seeing new uses for STEEM and more positive announcements. Everything that I have seen over the past year leaves me on the positive side for the future of STEEM and a reversal of the current prices. It might take a while but if #newsteem can be combined with some of the proposals and better marketing and onboarding then we have a great chance of getting there.

It's not investment advice but I have been picking up small amounts where possible as I think it's a great chance to get ahead of the crowd. That's how I reached my yearly goal after just 7 months instead of 12.

With that target passed it's time to refocus and push higher. Now the target is 20K SP! I won't set specific goals for this yet since I am strengthening my @steemmonsters deck right now but I will lay out a full plan in the next couple of months. For now it will just be tracking my progress as I power up and keep growing.

2019 SP Growth

You can see the massive jump in my SP since reaching the 10k mark as I sold some of my other alts in August to take advantage of the low price here and then I bought a small bit more at 12c as I couldn't resist at that price. Powered up a quick 200 STEEM today in honor of SPUD as a token gesture just before putting up this post.

I do have another 1000 STEEM sitting in my wallet but can't decide if I wan't to buy more Splinterlands cards or not...... I've spent a lot of STEEM on them in the past year but would love to round out a level 7 deck.

I fully believe in STEEM and the different possibilities that it can be used for in time. We aren't there yet but if the next hardfork can make things simpler for the average person and allow new users on-mass then we can start to visualize the next stage. An app driven economy backed by SMT's.

That is why I will be here all the way. Powering up and watching as it all unfolds over the next few years. Joining in where possible and helping this process where I can. It's been interesting to this point and i'm sure there is plenty of drama yet to come in the future.