Steemit Engagement Challenge 4 | STEEM GROWTH CONTEST - Theme: How many hours have you spent on Steemit in the last week
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Gosh what a shocker this challenge was!
I’ve come to the realization that I am in deep trouble with my family.
Let me start by answering the questions.
- Do you provide a special time for Steemit? Nope
- Do you just surf the Steemit platform when you have free time? Yip
- Has Steemit become your job to earn? Yip
- How many hours have you spent on steemit in the last week? Plenty!
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And now you ask me to write about time management.
Let me be honest, I suck when it comes to time management. What I am good at is “to do” lists. This my family knows to well. There is always a “to do” list for everything, even for going to town.
My personal drive is making those ticks on those “to do” lists and not how I manage my time.
I want the job done!
➤ They say time management improves self-discipline – so does my “to do” list.
➤ They say time management improves the quality of your work – debatable for me.
➤ They say time management improves your stress levels – there is no better stress reliever than putting that red tick to paper.
➤ They say that through time management you can get more done – I know that what I put on my “to do” do lists is what I am capable of doing.
That is where I close my argument on time management.
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Now this is where things starts getting interesting.
Before I give you the breakdown of my hours I first need to explain how I’ve measured the hours in the specific areas of interest.
Writing posts:
To write a quality post takes time and effort especially during these challenges. It is not a case of an idea that pop into your head and you can start writing.
Most of the challenges took me out of my comfort zone. I had to do research in some cases, go through thousands of photos, go to places and I had to make things.
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Reading post written by fellow Steemians and replying on them:
As per the https://steemseven.xyz/ tool my comment count for last week was 326. (7 days)
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At least 70% of these comments were on the post of fellow Steemians. To round it off I will say that it boils down to 230 replies for the week.
When these votes are divided equally into seven days it will be an average of 32 articles read and replied on a daily basis.
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Reading messages directed to my posts – those notifications:
The remaining 30% of replies is where I reply on notifications on my blog directly from the posts I have made. The sum will be 326 – 230 = 96 direct replies.
When these replies are broken down into seven days it will be an average of 13 replies per day which I make on engagements on my posts.
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Reading new information on Steemit:
I love reading and I am forever looking for interesting articles. What kept me busy the last few weeks were those Blockchain challenges. As a newbie to the Blockchain concept I had to do a lot of reading on Steemit. There was a couple of times where I felt like giving up.
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Activities in support groups:
I am actively a member and involved in four WhatsApp and four Telegrams groups.
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Activities in support and tutoring fellow Steemians:
I love helping fellow Steemians and it is great to see how they are improving by following my advice. Currently I am helping six Steemians with their posts.
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Activities as a curator:
I find being a curator extremely rewarding for me as a person but it is indeed no easy task. On the day that you are curating you cannot do anything else. You have to be willing to sacrifice 12 hours at least.
It is very difficult to give a complete breakdown but I am sure if you go through the criteria you will see what we have to do to find those perfect post.
There must be some of my fellow curating friends who can do it quicker but I have a soft heart. I want to vote on all the posts therefore it takes me a llloonnnggg time to read them all especially when you have to translate and Google only allows you 1,000 characters.
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I have not taken in account the extra hours I spend on curating as a team leader.
Let’s put on the info together and see where it brings us regarding the hours per day and also for the week I have spent on Steemit in the last week.
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By the way, my husband doesn’t agree with me. He says it is way over 100 hours.
Can you now understand why I say I am in trouble with my family?
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In my opinion;
The benefits of the Steemit Engagement Challenge
➤ There are so many more quality posts.
➤ Steemians are taken out of their comfort zones.
➤ With each post I am learning something new.
➤ It is great to copycat the markdown styles of fellow Steemians.
➤ I have made new friends from all the corners of the globe.
➤ The interaction and communication between fellow Steemians improved tenfold.
➤ You will reap the rewards! I have seen Steemains receiving votes who has never received votes from The7Up and this warms my heart.
Suggestions to improve these challenges
➤ It is not always possible to write a post with each day, especially when you have a 9 to 5 job. Changing to seven posts for the week instead of seven post, one for each day, will for sure help fellow Steemians.
➤ Please do away with selfies! Not everybody likes it. I know of a few Steemians who is not participating because of this.
➤ Please do away with posting on social media platforms. How can I participate if I do not have social media accounts and have no intention to create them?
➤ A suggestion would be to set a standard rule of 10% donation to all the participating communities as currently there are some of 0% and some with 20%.
➤ In fact, set standard rules for all the challenges.
Steemit is my job and I love it!
20% to @steemkindness
Inviting:
@samuel20
@chiabertrand
@kawsar
We all know that in our daily lives ourselves more others business for doing but our priority is to give tough time as much possible.
First of i appreciate your work being checking other members post and curation and then engage here through wonderful publication and lovely comments and replies , i am honestly wonder , how you menage it all .Dear best wishes for i appreciate you all time .
I am expecting that your husband will is one of nice man , ofcourse i understand your's situation but never experienced self .My mother is a house wife and i know how females have much of burden of home and it tough to handle and you did it .
Its amazing , I once again appreciate .
Bundle of greeting for you and for your's family .
Such wonderful words! Thank you!
It is when we receive replies like this that you feel it is all worth it.
I have learned over the last few weeks that women can indeed multi task 😊
Thank you, best wishes to you and your family also.
Without doubts, you are really spending much hours here in steemit and doing real blogging than most of us. I wonder how you are able to make all those comments and still make your own posts. You are the governor and president of all of us. I salute your government dear Sis. Keep firing
I want to tell you a story... I met this women on Steemit.
Way back, on 17 February I asked her the following;
Sorry for all the questions. I’m sure I’ll learn soon
And that is how it started. She NEVER failed to answer me on my questions. She NEVER stopped supporting me and she NEVER stopped encouraging me.
Her name is @ngoenyi
It is all thanks to her! 🎕
You know what? I will be back, let me check my pizza, I need to have some now. The last time I checked, you commented on all the post links dropped in all the groups you are in, and I have not gone half. You are my super super active hero here
I hope you've enjoyed your pizza! It looks yummy!
Yes yes, very much, thanks
Welcome and thank you @patjewell for your contribution to the Steem Engagement Challenge - Season 1 - Week 4 program by participating in the Steem Growth Contest organized by Steem Entrepreneurs Community.
Visit at least 5 other contestants and provide meaningful and relevant comments so that the objectives of the program are achieved perfectly - Steem on !
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Keep up your good work, best regards and good luck !
Whao, your to-do-list technique is working fine and getting the job done.
You are one of the extremely active users I know here on Steemit. You might not know but you’ve replied to majority of my posts since the Steemit Engagement Challenge started.
You’re doing very well and I wish you good luck and also pray your hard work pays off
You take a lot of time for steemit. Thank you also for interacting with other users both in the comments and on the telegram group.
Thank you for your support and kind words.
What makes me happy is when those I help start doing well and you are one of them.
Keep it up! 🤛🏻
Hola @patjewell, bueno conozco a un stemkan que su mamá me dice que desde que empezó en steemit no puede ni hablar con ella, jajjaa así que parece que sucede con frecuencia esto.
Haha! I think I have heard it a hundred times in the last week!
But yah, we all know what a sweet can do (•ิ‿•ิ)
Thanks for reading my post and replying!
Your answer to this questions are impressive because you have given straight furward answers
Impressive talk about Time management as you compared it with your "to do list" and I see you have properly managed this your "to do list" just like in the place of time management which is impressive... I think I will also implement this your "to do list" because for me, I see it's more simplified and easy to follow as compared to time management
You are right about this. I have noticed you are a role model on this platform and a vast majority of people love you so much because you are so kind and open heart. I have been able to also benefited from you countless times in so many instances and I also look up to you as my role model in this platform. Thanks for kind work on this platform
I believe only curators can understand this very well. I hardly do anything during my curation day because I always dedicate it to my curation activity so as to always carry out effective curation. So it is not always an easy task but I thank God I get use to it each blessed day and it has also made me to pay attention to a lot of articles
The steemit engagement has indeed benefited us in so many ways and I love all your above mentioned ways
Thanks so much for this beautiful input. I see you have put in a lot of efforts in this article
Thank you! This time I'm not sitting with a wet screen from you making my laugh but I'm sitting with wetness in my eyes!
Your words are so kind and uplifting. Just what I needed tonight. Thank you!
You don't need my support anymore. You are doing great with your posts and a lot of younger generation can learn from you. Keep up the good work!
As for that "to do" list, in Afrikaans we will say "Dit werk soos 'n bom" :-) Some Google work for you.
I'm waiting for your entry!
I cannot disagree with your husband saying you are spending more than 100hours in a week because you are always active on the platform.
Steemit Engagement Challenge took us out of our comfort zone and encourage us in making quality post, and we are able to make friends from our interactions with one another. Thank you for sharing ma.
The thank you should come from me 🎕
It is only with the support of people like you, my African family and my other brothers and sisters from all the wind directions of the world that I can truly enjoy what I am doing!
You are welcome. Keep steeming on ma
Hello friend, a list of things to do can simplify the tasks, since you will be aware of everything that there is to do, this is a good fact.
You do a good job with your participation in the platform and you can see that you have excellent results.
It takes a lot of time and dedication to post and make quality comments, my respect for everything you are doing.
I really like your suggestions to improve the dynamics of Steemit's commitment challenges, maybe it can give users more opportunities.
Suerte en el concurso.
Thank you for reading my post and engaging with it.
I think in the end we have all learned, to get results you have to perform in writing good quality posts and replies. :-)
Fingers cross that we will get more users to participate in the challenges.
Wow. I don’t think I’ll be able to pull this off with the way you’ve just detailed your time management @patjewell, lol. But I really admire the straight forward nature of this post. Thanks for the encouragement at the end 😘
It is me that must say thank you for reading my post and engaging with it.
I bet you that your entry will be just as detailed, just try it.
If it is as good as your fortune cookie post you will give me a run for my money (•ิ‿•ิ)
Excellent participation dear friend. The time you spend on the platform is great, and sometimes we don't realize how much time has passed since we started writing a post or interacting.
Steemit has become part of my days, just as it happens to you. I really liked your suggestions and opinions about the Challenge, which is not easy for many due to the number of posts per day, but let's have faith that everything will improve soon, I know it's possible.
God bless you, many successes.
I was shocked when I saw how many hours I do spend on Steemit. It is a pity that we were not noticed in advance what the challenge would have been as it would have been great to have kept tracked on the exact hours.
Thank you for engaging with my post! 🎕