With over 30 months of Steeming behind us we now go onward into month 36 which actually marks my 3rd year on Steemit.com to which I have no plans or nor want to be quitting anytime soon.

But gosh 3 month's ago I was late with the monthly post due to visiting my father, the time after that it was mostly due to work not giving me the opportunity with some awkward shift times, the previous month my internet was cut off for 9 days, this month same problem my net was cut but for only 3 days this was because some workmen didn't reconnected two of my lines after their "maintenance..." plus I had longer work shifts and other commitments which have made it really difficult getting this one out again.

I want to mention that I know there is a lack of posts coming from myself but before you think I have given-up on Steemit or got bored/lazy that's actually very far from the truth.
I'am actually spending alot more time instead behind the scenes being more active with communities on the Steem eco-system which infact rewards me for my efforts.
This ship and "our growth" still very much continues sailing into the upward direction, I hope you can see that is the case as we have not so long ago reached dolphin and now cruising into the 7k mark.

My hope is that this was a better way to continue our growth especially with these lower Steem prices and the almost non-existent whale votes, plus at the time the low curation rewards that we had prior to HF21.
Hopefully in the coming months you may soon see more content from me as the new Steem rewards curve could make it more worth while once again as many changes have come into effect with HardFork21.

Not sure how I feel about this month's results due to the hardfork's, but what I will say is I expected them to firstly be alot worse, but once I saw hardfork21 first-hand I thought it might not be so bad for me.
I started to gain more confidence but still with the expectation of maybe a %20 loss but with a lower Steem price also to consider into to play it might turn out roughly the same, so lets see...

But first I hope you will all play-along with me here, and so you should have in mind some kind of Steem related goal for the year, even if it's just something small that you would like to achieve on the blockchain as it helps you to stay focused.

If you didn't know yet, my big Steemit.com goal for the year was to reach dolphin, and well that was achieved in month 30 which I was very happy about as it was a goal I had from a very early stage since joining Steemit.com.

While I still have some payment related goals that I would like to achieve this year, other users have said that I should set sail to becoming a Orca, but I feel that is too much of a far-fetched goal for me right now.

But I did set myself on becoming a double dolphin which is indeed also a large goal, but that was then.. I have changed my mind again, instead we are going to change our course... and instead I will now be aiming for the next dolphin badge, which requires 7500 SP.
But also I hoped to reach 6000 SP this year which as also happened and so I will still try to squeeze 7000 SP in before the end of the year, but I do have doubts on that one.

Anyway I hope you will join me on this journey onward into the crypto future of things.

7500 SP

WE CAN DO THIS! And I appreciate all of you who have helped us get this far.

And so... our course as been set! Now let's GO!
Gods-speed.

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Over 3 years on Steemit.com the price as been low for months but I of course have no plans on quitting any time soon just aslong as HardFork21 doesn't force me to.

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So much as happened since I first joined Steemit.com I remember back in November 2017 "and will never forget" the amazing experience that was Steemfest 2 ( thanks to @roelandp for putting this together)

In December I went to a Steemit supper club hosted by @allasyummyfood unfortunately I couldn't attend the other supper club's but in February I got invited to attend a Steemit meeting in London hosted by @redrica, @ultravioletmag and @teodora it was definitely one of the best meetings I went to, the music was loud at times but that didn't stop us getting to know each other (but many of us did lose our voice's the following day lol)
In April I was at the London Cryptocurrency show which had around 50 Steemians attending, and there was also some great speakers representing Steem in the UK.

I didn't get the chance to go to Cyprus, Vegas, Indonesian, Korea nor many of the other big Steembased events as this was down to not being able to get either the time off work or because of the required funds for such things, mostly the later.

I did manage to also attend Steemfest3 which seemed to attract alot more developers than content creators or bloggers some of the ones who did attend did mention the atmosphere being much different this time round.
And with all this I managed to get enough SP to finally reach Dolphin in 2019 on March 22th.

But also back in 2018 from day one Steem and SBD's were erupting and going record breaking crazy, this was a huge shock to many experts and newbies alike it was one amazing start to the year, the price then settled abit but still in-between its "settled high's" we saw Steem at around the $3 mark.
Steem as been much lower these days it started due to the Bitcoin fall, it took Steem down a path of survival with Steem INC even being forced to lose %70 of its staff and the site itself was in danger of closure, but I'm happy to report that we are of course no longer in such a survival mode.

The recent price drops have indeed shocked many who were not expecting to see Steem ever go this low again, especially with Bitcoin's recovery going to 10k, but on the other hand its giving those interested in Steem a great opportunity to buy into what the whales were previously holding and so I say its the time for opportunity not gloom.

Moving Forward With New Hope And Opportunity!

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At The London Cryptocurrency Show

It's 2019 but still I had so much to write about from the things that took place back at the Steemfest events and some of the other Steemian gathering's.
These writings didn't get posted as for me I didn't get the time needed to put them out I also had a back-log of content I wanted to write about and not only that but the job often get's in the way of any Steem related things.
But I felt for a long time now a even bigger problem is how many mid level accounts just don't get much support for their content.
And yes that includes those who have put out "top quality content".
And when I say "mid level accounts" I'am still talking about those who are minnow's who apparently no longer qualify for any curation support after reaching a certain level.

It's all a shame really as we need more strong mid level accounts as this is to help support each other as many of these accounts actually still struggle to grow regardless of what you have been told about it being easy once you have "xyz" Steem power or Reputation. It's not!

Anyway doing these monthly report's often help's me stay in check, plus I have heard from you guys that the data can be useful to newbies on getting a better idea on what to expect from the Steemit.com platform.

But before going into month 36 and its results "This" especially for the newbies can be helpful, let me show you a very quick simple recap of my 2 and soon 3 Steemit.com years.

Month 1 📅

Month 11-12 📅

And there you have it 12 months of Steeming earned me....

2.784 Power

727 Followers

And a reputation of 64.1

Year 2 📅

Year 3? Well it's coming right up.

Yes I realise these aren't the most amazing results that you were probably expecting, but for someone who didn't bring in a previous fan base or was aided by any of the whale's nor part of any inner circle I guess these aren't bad results.
They definitely aren't the best results, but they also aren't anywhere near the worst.

Ok so now you have seen my results for 2 full years on Steemit.com and what you can realistically expected from someone in my situation.
Now we move on and focus with this month's results.

📅 Month 36 - 21/9/2019 the results are..

Ok so this month I was very unsure at where we would be at, this was mostly due to the changes of the hardfork21. And like I said before I expected a huge drop but once I saw the HF21 in action it was not as drastic as expected, but I did still suspect a %20 drop.

If we look 2 months ago I reported one of the best months we had in a very long time, I could almost go as far to say it was a record breaker for us.
I say "almost" because if you have been following me for a good while you will know my most successful post made me a crazy 271 Steem Power alone making it easily one of my best months as I was able to gather a little more after that particular post.
But do remember this was back in the good old days of Steemit and so if we discount that period the gain from 2 months ago would be our 2nd best result with a total of 233 SP.
Something I want to point out is this only happend since the price of Steem as been lower which I hope proves just how great the lower price of Steem can be for building-up your account. Anyway last month we got dangerously close to reaching the same SP gains of 233 SP with a total of 229 SP.
But for this month instead of a big cut-off expected due to the hardfork21 it is now been newly crowed our best 2nd month with a gain of 241 SP.

Honestly I cant believe we actually gained more during the crazy hardfork period and not only that but on the month that celebrates my 3 years on Steemit.

And so thank you to everybody who as contributed to getting us this far.

It will be very interesting to see if we can make roughly the same next month I expect slightly less but who knows let's see what the whole month of hardfork21/22 potentially offers.

When in comes to follower's please remember there was a error, it showed I had a total of 2600 followers 7 months ago.
It should of been 2560 followers, the five must of gone missing somewhere lol.
So there was no sudden loss of people, instead we gained another 9 that month, anyway as for this month no double digits but added another 9.

For reputation, it's great to be getting slowly closer to the mighty 70 but still a very long road up-ahead plus I think since the HF21 it might of got tougher to gain rep I did mention I expected this to happen.
But I can't complain, it's looking better as we are managing slowly at 67 rep with another notch-up for the month but if we are lucky with might get another 2 notches-up in a month or two.

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Other STATS 📊

Apparently there are around 1,321,000 Steemit.com users and so out of all those users and since the last time I checked my own ranking as a "Steem Stake Power Holder", I am around position #2499 which for me I am very happy with.
But that wasn't the highest I have managed to reach, the best result was at position #2225 but I hope to one day reclaim that spot and gosh look I'am getting close again! It's only with your support that we can get there. Anyway I say it's a good outcome as on the report 2 months ago we went downwards.
Sure it was not by much, something silly like 3 places, but still slightly disappointing and also surprising because on that month it was actually one of our highest for earning SP and yet we had actually gone down in the rankings!?
And considering also we had been going up almost 50 places the previous 3 month's.. it was abit of a hit, but still the good news is this just proves my point that even with Steem going down people are buying alot and the wealth is spreading. On the plus side we managed to go up about 20 places the previous month and now for this report we managed nearly another 50 places upwards.

Highest Steemit Earnings Score? 👊

I had a post that made me just over $50 the first month I signed on, and that's when I saw it! The Steemit.com potential!
But would you believe I never beat that reward record for a whole year! Yes that's right meaning it was only on month 13 that I finally beat my score from all the way back in month 1, how insane is that!?
While it sounds insane you must remember that the price of Steem during month 1 for me was over $4.00 !! Which was only surpassed on January 2018 when Steem was over $7.00! Anyway my new high score to beat is $94.00 which was from month 13.

Steem Power 👊

My most successful Steem Power post was actually back in month 7 when I had one post which made me 271 power!

My highest post so far on votes? 👨

The most amount of votes I managed on a single post so far was 213 this was not aided by any bots nor did I buy any upvotes, but still in the end that post only made me $8.60.

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Followers 👪👪👪👪

When it comes to followers.. sorry but the "Dead Followers" type of a tool that I used does not work anymore, I'am not sure why having such a thing seems to be so difficult.
I have now used like 4 different tools which have all had their own problems and eventually fully stopped working argh! So please if anybody knows of tool that works let me know in the comments section below.

If you are still here and active don't forget to give me a upvote and let me know you are still alive in the comments section below, as you might be missing out on upvotes from myself because I might just check out your blog and upvote you back.

Speaking of followers we have the "2500 followers badge" which required me to gain 500 new followers, it was the hardest followers challenge so far but now the target is set to having 3750! Wowsers! And that means I need to gain another 1250 extra followers!

I NEVER POWERED DOWN 🚀

To my active but also supportive followers I want to thank you all for your support so far, as of course remember that the more power and weight you can add for me with your upvotes the more I can give back to the community when I upvote you back, check out the wizard's badge for my curation level below, also your upvoted Steem power gets locked when you vote for me as I have "NEVER" yet powered down once since I started here on Steemit.com over 3 years ago!

MORE THAN 69,000 UPVOTES 👫

The locked Steem of course helps the price of Steem rise up but to also give you an idea on how much I have voted over the years I have done over 69,100 upvotes!
Which puts me in the TOP 500 of users who as voted on your posts.

So what are you waiting for? Vote now and lock-up some SP for a better Steem future.

I also want to thank you guys for helping me get to SteemFest2 last year and those who supported me for Steemfest3, I still owe abit of money back for the trips but I will get there eventually.

Closing Last Notes

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Please don't think your up-votes aren't worth anything or don't count because they really really do, with Hardfork21 there was fear that they might became completely useless but it still continues to add to your reputation.

Another thing I will add is please vote more on those who are actually active on Steemit.com, too often I see auto-votes on people who are rarely active, or to those who don't vote on anybody else's post or even rarely communicate's with others or are always powering down yet many are feeding these accounts....why?..seriously.

I believe we need a strong number of dolphins as there are too many in power who just vote for their own rich inner circles or who are not even actively voting, but yet I see many supporting them, if you want to support those higher then give the dolphins a helping hand as they are more likely to vote back and shape the future for a more fair share of the rewards.

The downfall is the powerful circle jerking when it comes to votes this could get worse with Hardfork21, not enough whales are voting on the minnows or dolphins, creating a predictable rewards distribution.
This seems to be getting fixed with the changing rewards curve and with the use of SMT's in future.

Also realise that we no longer have as many active whales voting, this is because they are using less time consuming ways of using-up their SP, making Steemit.com a more pay-to-get-seen and developers support type of a website, plus we had too many Steemians who sold away their SP, but that last part doesn't worry me it's a gain for those who want-in and you can trust me with your votes I have not powered down once since day 1.

Regardless of the change I still hope people will create content on Steemit.com in the future and get paid for it, hopefully earning something more than just a few cents for their efforts.
To make it clear I'm not having a dig at the whales, I'am saying we need more people who are actually active and curating who are being supported and who have some decent power behind them, so vote now and help me make this happen.

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-Steem Price-
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simonjay/daily-steem-price-update-19-9-2019

-Month 30 Of Steemit Monthly Reports-
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-I Have Powered-Up To Dolphin!-

https://steemit.com/life/@simonjay/powered-up-to-dolphin-22-3-2019

-Young And Now Disabled By Vaccine?-

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