My 2017: Achievements and Failures | A Year Of Learning About Myself
For me, the year 2017 was BIG... I did many great things in it and learned a lot about myself. It's also the year I started taking steemit seriously after not minding it for 6 months!! All in all I'm very happy for this year!!
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(Source: Bakuman Anime)
Salam (Peace)
Big thanks to @anomadsoul for having this "My 2017: Achievements and Failures" contest, it made me think about what I did this year, and while I don't remember everything... I can say "Yes, I made some achievements this year... Small but life Changing!!"
My 2017 Achievements
Joining The Fiction Workshop @thewritersblock
A little while after returning to steemit (I joined last year but didn't use the account much until mid-2017)... I found about this group of authors.... They helped me and many authors a lot. Most of my stories that are 500 words or longer was sent to them for critique and I learned something from that.
Stories that got work-shopped include "A Murky Liquid", "Your Heart Would Remember", "Voice of A Princess" and "A Fascinating Legacy".
Everything I write in English now is affected by advises from those great people. Please Check Their Posts at: @thewritersblock
Helping Arabian Mangaka
While I didn't draw much for almost three years (mid 2015 until now), I'm still active in the Arabic Manga/Comic artist communties... I wrote an article on my website to advice beginner manga authors how to find artists... as I saw many teams start and vanish on the internet without compeleting the first chapter of their work...
Our level is still weak so I won't talk about our stories on steemit yet (This is our collective level right now)... But one day the world will know us!!
Buying A Mobile Phone From Amazon
For someone in Libya, getting things from outside the country is a big deal... All my friends and family are proud of me because I brought a phone with only what I call "internet money"... When you bring something physical with you, is the time everyone knows that what you're doing is REAL.... It's a very great achievement!!
Going to "Comic Con Libya 2017"
I can't believe I didn't post about this!! At the start of November there was a Comic Con in my area... It wasn't big and few people managed it with their own money but it was still interesting.... I even had my own booth there. (pictured below) I showed some of my works... And people liked them!!
Comic Con was a huge step for me... I proved to myself I can do something BIG like this by myself (I'm not good at dealing with strangers, so I always went out with my brother not alone before) and proved that people here like ART.
![AhmadMangaBooth.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmV7rBsf2azyzT9er9xx1j9Za82CFJcFArtstg237bAwRN/IMG_20171102_103050a.jpg)
(My booth at the Comic Con)
Reading About MBTI personality types (INFP by the way)
My life changed when I took personality test and got INFP, I read a lot about that personality and others... And I can say for sure I'm INFP with some INTP/INFJ traits (except that I'm totally Procnastinator).
This changed my life? because I always felt that I'm the only one with my way of thinking... that there's no one like me. While people find the flaws in others, I tend to forgive. While people focus on what they get from a job, a focus on what I feel toward it... And I find myself very impulsive sometimes, and very careful other times. But INFP are just that type of humans, people who are in ADHD state all of their life.
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(Source: Pintrest)
Reviewing Games
I didn't start game reviewing on steemit, but I started this year... Playing a game and talking about what you liked and disliked in it is fun... who knows? I may become a professional reviewer in the future.
These were the achievements that crossed my mind... They are small ones, but this year made me think I want to "Work as a Writer" and Steemit can work as my portfolio...
My 2017 Failures
There are things that would be associated with this year I'm not proud of... Well, I didn't want to talk about them but I'll say what they are about briefly:
- Avoiding College!! I study engineering but I have hiatus (is that the word?) this semester.... I know my reasons don't justify avoiding it... I don't regret the time I'm spending away from college but I know I'm just running away from my something that don't even deserve to run away from. Sigh
![WhyDoIHaveToWork.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbzXkNVzbm3tkuwFHwNhhWwP45JaUPQBZonVevfZc8hXA/WhyDoIHaveToWork.jpg)
(source: Bakuman anime)
Faling to Become A Youtuber!! Early this year, I spent few weeks learning about Youtube and how to become a youtuber, I believed I could become one... But I found it take a huge mental strentgh to talk to people with voice, edit the videos and all of that.... Luckily failing this helped me realize how good I am at written "Game Reviews" (Wrote about it in Achievements list above).
Creating A Waves Token ON IMPULSE, Announcing it ON IMPULSE... and Failing Miserably!! even was considered a scammer (I don't blame them, I'll consider myself one if I were in their place). No details... I feel bad just writing this but hey what's the worst that can happen?!
Wasting Time!!! I dream of doing something, and then I do everything that isn't productive... I mean, watching anime and playing games can be productive when done with a goal (like reviewing them?)... But I procrastinate even on that, Even this post took me three days to write!! Sigh, So Much Wasted Potential~
Wow that's a lot of achievement bro. I will definitely try to write my own too. Later today
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