Before I do want to discuss my growth of the past 2 weeks. I do have a question for you all!

Do you think it is easier now to grow than one year ago?

A year ago, lot's of people where blogging and curating and since the bulls really entered the crypto market the activities on Steem also went down! The hardcore users did remain.

Now activities on the blockchain are increasing again and more and more support programs are popping up. I also did delegate 30SP to two newcomers, so that they won't have to fear RC problems.

Besides that they are at the moment a lot of different front-ends for the steem blockchain, all with added features. From collecting points which can be exchanged for a direct upvote (Partiko) to just plain simple upvotes (busy and Esteem.

These days I do write most my posts in Esteem and update them afterwards via busy. This way I do get the chance to score upvotes from both front-ends.
Most of my comments are written via (Partiko). Using Partiko really created a new user experience! Also for each comment I do write via Partiko they reward me with 10 points. These points can be exchanged into an upvote!

But we also have Actifit which really helps. The upvotes of Steemmonsters on SM related posts and so on. There are lots of ways to increase your earnings if you really want to!

My progress!

I do keep surprising myself. In the last 2 week another 180 SP has been added to the account. 30 SP came from the saving balance. I did have it on there for emergency reasons but they don't earn interest there, so I decided to power them up!

The games are also a very nice way of income. Drugwars still generates around 1.5 steem per day. Magicdice is still paying out a decent amount of dividens. Even better than expected so I decided to reinstall the delegation to them. Did delegate 100 SP, which gives me 50 Magic tokens per day. This way I do hope to keep my share level.

Steemmonsters did cost me some steem in the past 2 weeks. With the value of steem going up, the cards are becoming cheaper. So I decided to invest around 18 steem!

Also for the first time ever, my steem account is worth over a $1000. Not bad for a year!

Also the curation rewards are increasing. In February I did earn 11 SP just by curating. The first month ever more than 10 SP. March is also already looking promising.

SP

According to the plan I should have around 1295 SP at the moment, so I am way ahead of plan. I didn't expect to see the 2K before October of this year!
The ultimate goal is to become a dolphin but this will still be out of reach for this year. This would mean another growth of 3K. Or an increase of 75 SP per week. No way I can do this. Most of the growth of this year are investments and games. And the longer a game is going on, the lower the payout will be! The only way this would be possible to get on an automated upvote list of a big dolphin, but I won't be chasing that. Something like this has to be earned and will come if you do earn it!
So for the moment I will stick to the goal of 2250 SP by the end of the year. When I will pass this goal I will set a new one!

Engagement

Since the beginning of the year I have written 1414 posts and comments and it is starting to get harder by the day. I do think that I will need some kind of cool down period. Still the goal remains to have at the end of the year 12300 post/comments on my account. At the moment I do have 8485. Partiko will make sure that this will be an easy goal to reach!

Reputation

Also here I am growing faster than I could imagine. My rep has gone above 63, while according to the plan 62 would have been enough! Still to goal remains unchanged to 65.

Finally I want to thank all of you for reading my posts and leaving genuine comments behind! That is the fuel which keeps me going!

Cheers,
Peter