Chart Your Course Challenge - tessaragabrielle

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This challenge has been going around, and I think it’s a great idea! I think it started with @dreemsteem, and you can see the original post here: Chart Your Course Challenge. I love making goals—even when I don’t meet them, I generally accomplish more in striving for them than I would otherwise. Plus, I find making lists soothing, because I'm kind of a weirdo, and I find checking things off or crossing them out as I complete them very satisfying.

(I feel like someone tagged me to complete this challenge, and I can't for the life of me remember who...)

So here's the challenge:

1. What is your Steemit goal? (In one sentence, make it as specific and as measurable as possible)
2. Prioritize these three aspects of Steemit for you: Posting, Curating, Commenting
3. Name up to 5 groups/communities that help you to achieve your goal.
4. Name at least one measurable future goal for: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months.
5. And because everything should end on a sweet note... name your favorite dessert!
6. Challenge 3-5 people to chart their course!
7. Use the #chartyourcourse tag

1: My Steemit goal
I want to have an upvote that is worth $5 at 100%. Reaching this goal means I could make a big difference in someone's life, especially for folks in countries outside the global north/the western world. I don't know if STEEM will continue to hover above $2.50 or not, but any amount above $1 means my vote could really be worth something to someone, if I reach this goal.

2: My priorities

• Commenting: I’m on Steemit to engage with others, to support folks and build community. I came originally through @shawnamawna’s LinkYourLife initiative, and I love the idea of my engagement bringing monetary rewards to people who need it. I also think the 7-day post payout is frustratingly limited, and when I comment on an older post and the author replies, I can continue to support them for that post by upvoting their reply. In that way, I can continue to support them, even if they don’t have a more recent post for me to promote. (Because life happens, you know?)
• Posting: I am a deep thinker, generally, and it can take me a long time to go from idea to completed post. (This post has been in progress for at least a week.) For that reason, this is not as high a priority as commenting, since it naturally happens at a much slower rate. The rewards from posting go right back into my SP, however, and they will help me to build up and achieve my $5 upvote goal.
• Curating: I’m still figuring out curation, but it is a lower priority for me at the moment. I’m not going to do a regular curation post any time soon, and the half hour window for curation rewards on a post is a bit confusing for me at the moment. This may change, but for now curating is low on the list.

3: My crew
@teamgirlpowa, @thesteemengine, LinkYourLife, @slothicorn, @steemitramble
All of these groups have Discord servers, and the more conversational feel of the servers compliments the blog format of the Steemit platform quite well. We can check in on each other, share frustrations, promote our own and each other’s posts, all in a more casual format than the blogs. The folks I’ve met through the Steemit Discords I’ve joined have been welcoming, wonderful people, so far, and I’ve really enjoyed connecting with them and their works.

4: My mini-goals

• in 1 month, 100 SP
• in 3 months, 55 reputation score
• in 6 months, 300 SP
• in 12 months, 500 SP
  (I’m making these pretty small because I start a PhD program in four months, and I want them to be achievable and realistic. If I blow past them, good, but I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself as I start grad school.)

5: My fave dessert
Chocolate-banana-peanut butter frozen yogurt shakes. Om nom…

6: My challengees
I don’t like tagging people, but if you’re reading this and you’re inspired, I definitely invite you to join the challenge.

Thanks for reading, y'all!

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