The First Achievement - 100SP. Thanks To WORLD OF XPILAR!

Hi to all! Today I want to share my first achievement. Today my SP crossed the 100 mark. It's small, but it's the first step. The next target is 500 SP.

Beginners, and perhaps not beginners, will be interested in how my growth took place.

The first thing I want to say is that I did not invest in STEEM. Why? There are several reasons:

• STEEM price. Cryptocurrency prices fluctuate widely. Even Bitcoin is 90% cheaper at peak times. I believe that this is not the best time to invest in STEEM. But it will come when the price of this cryptocurrency is below $ 0.30. Then I plan to invest in STEEM to increase SP.
• In order to receive upvoits and, accordingly, profits from my publications, just a big SP is not enough. You also need to have a great reputation. Therefore, to begin with, I am developing my account.
• In general, I'm not sure if I will definitely invest in STEEM due to past negative experiences of investing in cryptocurrencies.

And now let's move on to how my growth took place. I went to the level of 100 SP for 97 days. It could be less, but I do not have the opportunity to add posts on weekends and holidays.

I registered on July 6, 2021. On July 15, I received the first 0.115 SP. Apparently that's what helped me stay here. At first, it was extremely difficult to get upvoits. I tried to publish articles in different communities, I tried myself in different topics. But there was no result.

Eventually I came across the WORLD OF XPILAR community. Understood how to take part in competitions. And then the real development of the account began.

My first competition was LANDSCAPE / SEASCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY/ART. And immediately success - honorable mention!

In general, the WORLD OF XPILAR community has given me almost everything that is now in my account. And I'm grateful to the administrator, the curators and all the members of the community.

Thanks to the administrator @xpilar. He rewarded 16 of my publications with the Curation Trail, giving me 23,904 SP. Special thanks for the reputation, which reached 52,390 thanks to numerous upvotes of the Curation Trail.

Thanks to the curators for their competitions, thanks to which I received:
• from @mirla33 - 1 STEEM;
• from @adeljose - 3 STEEM;
• from @mister-omortson - 17.5 STEEM;
• from @axeman - 7 STEEM.

Thanks @stef1. Unexpectedly for me, he supported one of my posts with @booming. As a result, I received 3,294 STEEM POWER and 2,048 SBD, which I immediately converted to 26.86 STEEM and immediately POWER UP my account.

Thanks to @leveuf, for supporting my post Hike In The Woods For Honeysuckle, thanks to which the post was then supported by Curation Trail.

Thank you to everyone I forgot to mention separately.

I want to assure all curators, moderators and administrators. No STEEM or upvote has been lost. All of them were spent to POWER UP my account. I have not withdrawn any funds and do not plan to do so for a long time. I hope this will make the dream of a strong community a little closer.