What Is Your STEEMit Goal?

What will it take for you to feel that you have reached success on Steemit?

Despite my answer to @jaynie in her STEEMIT Q&A, I plan on more than to "be pimp famous" on STEEMit. Of course, being famous or notorious on STEEMit would possibly help me meet my goals.

First off, if you are here on STEEMit, you are here to make money. If you say otherwise, you are full of it. The whole purpose of STEEMit is to create content for cryptocurrency. It is part of the DNA of the system, so get over it. Everyone is here to be rewarded. Now, as I have pointed out in my monthly update articles, not a lot of people are getting rich on STEEMit. The rewards do not flow like they did in the start, so unless you are doing some major bot manipulation, you aren't going to get rich quick.

Where am I in the STEEMit World: Nov 1st

However, just because you can't pile up the coins fast, doesn't mean you can't work to having a large amount of coins or Steem POWER. It is good to set goals, because setting goals helps you keep focused on what you want to do and how far along you have come. There is nothing worse than feeling that you have done a ton of work and not being able to see what you have accomplished and how much more work you need to do.

Just recently I saw a post by @valorforfreedom which was an update on his goals.

My Road to 100000 Steem Power & Self-Improvement Log Day 46

100,000 Steem POWER is a very lofty goal and when you start from scratch, it probably seems like an impossible goal. But, it seems as if @valorforfreedom is very motivated in reaching his goal on STEEMit and his personal fitness goals, so I salute him on his effort.

Make a goal, set markers

I responded to the article by first suggesting that he make markers or way points towards his goal. By having markers, you can see where you are and if you are making progress. 100,000 Steem POWER is a huge goal. If it was 2016, this could probably get done in about 100 articles with what apparently was going on back then with the Rewards Pool. Now, it would probably take much much longer. It could be possible to get there with 1,000 articles, if each and every article was touched by a few whales like @curie, but that's most likely not going to happen.

Next, I told him of my first goal, which was to become a Minnow. Everyone who joins starts off as a Bone Fish, then you become a Red Fish and finally when you have reached 500 Steem POWER, you are a Minnow.

I wrote an article about the different levels 4 months ago. Bone Fish, Minnow, Dolphin, Orca, Whale. How do I get there?

You can easily see where you are using Steemit Board. You can also keep track of how you are doing with daily, weekly, and monthly articles.

Now that I have reached Minnow status, my next goal is to hit 1,000 Steem POWER. A fellow steemian, @offgridlife, started the same time I did and just recently hit 1,000. He posts a lot of posts each day. He has managed to get the Monthly Author award twice on Steemit Board, showing his commitment to posting every day.

I think my final goal is to earn $100 rewards a week. Of course, Steem price affects that as well as the number of articles I create, the number of upvotes and who upvotes me with what percentage of their upvote power. However, I would want that to be the minimum amount. The idea is, I need to create x number of articles and be able to upvote myself y amount. Anything I earn from others would be a bonus on top of my regular earnings.

I'm not going to get into the discussion of upvoting yourself other than, I believe it is okay to upvote your own article and that it is bad to upvote your own comments.

This is the basic calculation:
x * y = $100
Ideal example: (2 articles per day/ 7 days) x $7.25 per upvote = $101.50 rewards.

Obviously, the increase in Steem POWER isn't a simple calculation and other factor are put in place when it comes to final reward payout. But, having $100 rewards every 7 days is the goal. This would be as if I was paid $100 a week for writing articles (again, this is why upvoting your own article is okay) and then receiving a bonus for popular articles.

Currently, with 600 Steem POWER, I have an upvote of $0.05 today. $7.25 would be 145 times my current upvote power at 100%. That would mean I would need approximately 87,000 Steem POWER to reach my goal. It would seem that @valorforfreedom goal of 100,000 Steem POWER is not far off from mine.

After I reach 1,000 Steem POWER, my next way point/marker will be 5,000 Steem POWER. Hopefully, reaching way points after that will come easier due to compounding of rewards into Steem POWER, because I do Power Up 100%.
Dr. SteemPower : Or, why I gave up trying to convert SBD and fell in love with Power Up 100%

Currently, it looks like I am earning 100 Steem POWER a month, with lower article output than I was doing when I started in June. So, I need to make an closer way point goal of figuring out a way to create more articles.

What is your STEEMit goal?

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Let the positive energy sing!

More Power to the Minnows!!