SEC S11W3: Show your originality

When It comes to pointing at a particular incident, it’s not easy to pinpoint any one incident that changes anybody’s life, but one goes back in the past and reviews a series of incidents before reaching a conclusion.

  

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

I am glad that I am taking part in one of the topics which is close to my heart. You know I could have given anything to become a blogger and if I got both I wanted to get, travel opportunities and blogging, nothing better than that.

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I invite my two seniors @patjewell and @graceleon to express their views for SEC S11W3: Show your originality

  
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧?

I believe that different reasons trigger different opportunities, but it’s up to the person how they react to them or how best they grab them! I will explain various reasons for finding turning points in one’s life. Some people find them in a hard way, but some, as we all know, are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, so they do not have to struggle or even look for any particular turning point but it comes to them on autopilot.

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I am not one of them, so I would like to categorize my journey through the points mentioned below because everything counts. I grew up in an engineer’s household. So, I opened my eyes in a lush green area, blessed with all that Mother Nature can provide to humans.

I started my primary schooling at age three, but soon my father was transferred to State Head Quarters with a post of Senior Engineer in a significant manufacturing unit of instruments owned by the state government. I liked the idea, but life was not easy doing all the hard work which was otherwise taken care of by mom and house assistants and washing clothes was perhaps the hardest of them all, or should I say ironing them out!

I am an engineer (Mechanical) and PG in marketing and administration. Also, I was good at badminton so the badminton arena of 12 courts was my pleasure, where I played for at least one hour every day. I would love to play more, but one hour was the permitted limit for each student unless he was practicing for a tournament.

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At the end of my business school career, I joined a multinational company after campus selection in production, and I accepted one of them. But that was not my destination, so I requested my Regional Manager and Head of HRD. I was granted a transfer to marketing, and that was one of the turning points in my life, as I was ready to fly like a free bird.

And that was the beginning of watching and fulfilling my dreams. I wanted to see the world and be a travel blogger. But don’t think for a moment that life was a bed of roses; it was starting off a tough transformation, but I was ready for that. This was a turning point for me, but more is to come.

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙊𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡?

Every person in the world definitely has a special skill of his own, but we often ignore our skill or ability. Most of us do not want to realize the energies and transformative power within us.

The biggest dilemma of all of us is that we are unable to maintain our natural originality even if we try. Sometimes we want to make our actions and behavior according to the fantasies of our mind, sometimes we change ourselves so much in view of others that our originality is completely lost. I have probably been successful in maintaining my originality to some extent, but it is up to you to decide

I will not mention my professional achievements here because I don’t want to sound like someone boasting about himself, but I can assure you that a person who knows the value of hard work and is willing to learn goes places. No one can stop him. But I will write about writing here, which I consider one of my biggest achievements.

I have been on the internet since 1999, but it used to be too costly, so I had to wait until 2003 for any browsing and get a real hang of the social media sites that were coming up at that time. People were interested in introducing new people to those sites and engaging them in chat. I also found some of those, but that was for fun and nothing more.

A serious change came in 2007 when Elena, an Afro-British friend, and a great blogger, introduced me to Mylot and Triond, the former was a discussion site and the latter an article writing site that transformed my hobbies, and I started writing small posts consisting of 200–400 words. Soon I joined another site that offered me to write long posts on my chosen niche and general topics. I submitted posts with words up to 5000 on that particular site and enjoyed writing those posts.

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I am not saying I was doing it for free; the money was good, but I enjoyed writing more than money because my earnings from my offline job were okay. I have written for Hubpages, Squidoo, Bubblews, and a number of other sites, some of which still exist, but most of them disappeared notwithstanding either spammers or Google’s policies about revenue sharing and earning algorithms.

A major turning point was when I was selected as moderator and editor for three different sites, all during 2010–2012. But the biggest turning point in my life came at the end of 2011, when I went to Australia. It’s not that I am thrilled to leave my country, but the reason for shifting to this country is entirely personal and most enjoyable.

Finally, my writing on Steemit is yet another turning point, a change for the better, and another achievement for me. As I always say, once I achieve something, I set my eyes on the next target and am willing to achieve it with all my might, no matter what!

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Conclusion: I would like to list my achievements as per my priorities, but it’s not easy to give them any priority by number. Here are my achievements:
My blogging experiences
My camera work
My video making

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙮?

I have a number of posts that I can keep in this category but as I have to give you the best, I am zeroing on this one. I consider this my best article as a travel blogger on this site. And I believe that my list will go on and on...

We had heard so much about Wanaka so we wanted to see the beauty of this town located in the Alpine region of the South Island that New Zealand, one of the most beautiful countries in the world that I have ever visited, has to offer.

👇👇👇 The link 👇👇👇

I feel this is my best travel post on Steemit

This is all about a trip to New Zealand I did back in 2018 and posted it on this site almost five months ago. Please read on and enjoy the trip-
We left Canberra at 6 a.m. and arrived at Queenstown airport at 4.30 p.m. on the 28th of December 2018.

You will have to go through it if you want to know why!