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What Has Gotten Me To This Point?

Having just celebrated my one year anniversary on the steemit platform, I have been looking forward to what the next 12 months will be bringing to the Golden D Homestead Table.

What do I envision? What will I accomplish? Who will I help (more like who WON'T I help)?

For the past month I have really sat back and analyzed how I got to where I am, all the people who have lifted me up and who have been mentors and my biggest supporters. Let me tell you... the list is long

Some days, as I sit down to my laptop, sipping my hazelnut coffee and reading Discord messages, new posts that @ginabot has alerted me to or just opening up documents to get started on the @qurator Daily newsletter, I release an elongated breath and thank the Heavens above for my good fortune, the support I receive from fellow steemians and how blessed I am to be where I am at the moment.

Keep in mind, all I do over the course of my steemit work day can feel like a juggling act, an endless to-do list and even that I'll never get caught up... but I always do.

From finding five Qurites for the Daily Newsletter for #qurator to getting statistics for the @ghscollective reports to getting my own posts in order for the day or week, I am constantly at the laptop pecking away. And when I wrap up the day, I can look at all the tasks I've completed and feel fulfilled.

But I remember the early days of steemit when I was fumbling around... trying to figure out what to say and write, or how to make my formatting just a little better; I felt discombobulated.

Now I spend my days in between newsletters, curation, commenting and posting and chatting it up on Discord. Golden D Has Got Her Groove!

But still... more was missing.. and I figured it out. D-E-L-E-G-A-T-I-O-N

In the past I have delegated to people... and now I am turning my delegation sights on groups... communities... organized pages with challenges... I want to make sure anyone on the platform can reap the rewards I have to offer.

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I have found five groups, pages or communities to delegate to. The amounts are different and the delegations will stay where they are indefinitely; unless something drastic changes or the delegations are used to cause harm upon others and in a way I would consider malicious.

• @qurator-tier-1-2 has received 100-SP from me - Simply because I have been a part of the @qurator staff team for over eight months now and I 100% stand behind what qurator stands for, what the qurator witness is doing and how many members (over 1400 now) we have helped along the way.
• @altlife has received 100-SP from me- This is a page run by @pennsif who hosts a Friday night Alternative Lifestyle MSP-Waves radio show; which I have been a guest on numerous times and LOVE the format and all the engaging guests (and host). The topics are unusual and the guests share their lives- you need to check it out!
• @canna-curate has received 75-SP from me - some of you know I recently came out of the cannabis closet and started sharing my grow tents and room as well as being an official MMMP (Michigan Medical Marihuana Program) card holder. As a sufferer of an auto-immune disease I can see how cannabis can help those in pain; whether chronic or acute.
• @cookwithus has received 50-SP from me- EVERYONE knows I love my kitchen on Golden D Homestead and I am always in there cooking up a storm and inventing new creations. While I have never participated in one of the #cookwithus challenges and weekly contests, I have been a supporter of the group for months and I feature many of the recipes on my Saturday curation post.
• @ghscollective has received 300-SP from me. This was actually a transfer of delegation from @freedompoint to the page where they want to Unite, Educate, and Encourage individuals in all aspects of self reliant living around the globe. I am a homesteader at heart and lover of all things self-sufficient, self-reliant and about helping others.. so this was an easy delegation choice.

So now what for future delegations?

EVERY time my personal SP goes 50 over my personal baseline set of 2000, I will be delegating 50-SP to either a new group, page or community on steemit and in Discord.

ie. Right now I have 2801 SP less the 786 I have out in total delegations, leaving me with about 15-SP (which keeps me above the 2000-SP base line). Once my SP account reaches 2837, I will delegating another 50-SP.

But why do I have to keep 2000-SP in my account at all times?
Call it my OCD in high gear... I like even numbers and that is the number I want to keep as my base line... for now.

So now.. my new goal is to gain SP over the next few weeks and month(s)... so every time I have that 50-SP, I will be contacting someone and saying, "Hey, you want an SP delegation?"

I may choose to add to a current and existing delegation, or I may find a new group, page or community; one never knows. After deciding to take this route in the upcoming months, I am content with my conclusion on how I want to start the second year of my steemit life. I will be making quality posts, continuing to advance and all the while helping others along the way. yeah, I am feeling good about this decision

So in preparation for my next 36-SP coming in, hopefully sooner rather than later... who would you recommend I consider a 50-SP delegation to? Are you involved in a group? Page? Community? Could they use 50-SP to help reward their members and followers? Tell me who and why I should add them to my short list.

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