Audacious March - Day 3 Roundup
Several platitudes spring to mind:
“Progress Not Perfection” ~ Every self-help nook and cranny on Earth.
“If you want to make god laugh, tell him about your plans.” ~ Woody Allen, adapted from an old Yiddish proverb.
“It is what it is.” ~ Origin unknown but first appearing in print in 1949 in an article written by J. E. Lawrence in the Nebraska State Journal, according to the New York Times.
“Holy Hell!” ~ Exclaimed repeatedly throughout history in countless languages across the globe. And my mantra for today.
So WTactualF?
Okay, I knew there’d be obstacles along this journey. And off days. And technical difficulties. And moments of staring into space and muttering incoherently. I’ve even ramped up and doubled down on some of my metrics in anticipation. But I did not expect to hit a wall made up of all of the aforementioned components at the same time...on the third day.
I’m not going into to detail. I will not make excuses. Today was ugly and I own that. I have two choices here:
- I can go into tantrum mode and quite.
- I can acknowledge, accept, and move forward.
- Oh wait, there’s one more: I could lie my ass off and pad my numbers, pretend everything went grrrrrrrrrEAT. But that would involve starting this post over from scratch. So I’m going with door number two.
Two it is! ...
With a couple of modifications.
I’ve learned what I actually already knew: 25 upvotes a day is not realistic if I want my votes to have any substance and/or I want my SteemPower to regenerate in time to have decent voting power the next day. So I’m dropping that goal down to 15. We will see how that works out.
I’m going robotic. I have got to separate my emotions from this experiment entirely. What’s that? A passionate, audacious artist sans emotions? The HELL, you say!
Yup... the hell. And I say.
Now’s the time for me to woman up and reveal what I’ve accomplished today. And I’ll be brutally honest and admit that most of it happened in the last hour or so.
- I followed 8 fellow Steemians
- I made 5 responses to comments on my posts
- I made 9 comments on other people’s posts
- I Upvoted 12 Times
- I entered 0 contests
- I created 1 new post
- I resteemed 1 post
Oh, one more modification I must pledge to make: Stop being so hard on myself!
(It could happen...)
Thank you guys for coming along for the ride!
See my previous Audacious March posts here:
Day 2 Roundup
Day 1 Roundup
My Game-plan
Yes please and thankyouverymuch!!!!!
Hey Lisa! I wanted to tell you the other day that some of these goals could be hard to achieve. Upvoting 25 articles a day, not counting comments upvotes, is unrealistic unless you use a voting power of 20-30%. Also, following many people could be tiring and time consuming. At one point, I had to start unfollowing people because I simply couldn't keep up with all the posts.
Anyways, I keep my finger crossed and I hope that you will achieve your goals. I just fear that you may burn out at some point :/
My husband fears the same. And I can see why. But it’s an experiment. And I will modify as necessary. I’m grateful for your feedback and your concern.
My ultimate goal is to ramp up my engagement and presence on Steemit. I truly want a symbiotic relationship with the platform and other Steemians. I’m not looking to just profit, I want to build supportive community. But if I’m not out there, if no one is seeing what I do...and if I’m not also seeing what others are producing...that’s never going to happen. So this ramp up is designed like a sprint to hopefully jump a level or so. I do not intend to keep up the pace past March. I realize the burnout potential.
BTW, I was counting comment upvotes in there. But 25 is still extremely ambitious and unrealistic. I’ve often wondered why some people don’t upvote comments. Now I understand.