Steemit Personal Goals for the Week: 8/22-8/28

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Writing out goals I have for this week in my steemit journey to help remind myself to be more selfless and to accept the things I cannot control. This is partially inspired by this post by @sykochica.

Share at least as many posts in the chats, steemboost site, and Facebook groups as I share of myself

If you are a part of any Facebook steemit groups, a member of steemboost.com or in the steemit.chat, you probably notice most people spamming their own posts while never reading, commenting on, or sharing stuff made by other people that move them. I'm partially guilty of this as well, but this week will be different. Every time I share a post of my own, I'll share another post by someone else that I enjoyed. Preferably it will be one that hasn't gotten enough attention, but any posts I can share that will expand the minds of people who read them is better than me just spamming my own content.

Read every word of every post on my feed

I follow people because I value their opinions and think their posts can teach me something. What better way to soak up all of their knowledge than to read every word they write?

Read at least 20 posts by people not currently on my feed per day

People are susceptible to confirmation bias: searching for evidence that confirms one's already held beliefs or views. Reading posts of people who I don't currently follow gives me an outside perspective to both keep my mind and ego in check and teach me things I may not have learned otherwise.

Follow at least 5 new people every day

Read this post by @razvanelulmarin. Not only am I sharing a post I didn't write, but it's phenomenal advice. And you can see who other people follow!

Never let upvote % go above 90%

Check out this site that shows both any user's upvote % and worth per upvote. When you upvote less than 20 posts per day your % stays very close to 100%, after that it starts to drop off steadily, with that number dropping below 90 at around 25-28 upvotes in a 24 hour period. If I let my upvote go above 90% then I am simply not reading and upvoting enough posts per day.

Notice what isn't on this list

No goals of number of articles written, rewards, new followers gained, or total posts on the site. If everyone only pumps out content then nobody is spending time reading everyone else's content.

Let's all try to be a little more selfless and engaged with others this week.

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I am also thinking about having some change like posting at least 2-3 quality contents in a day. And adding 10-15 quality comments and appreciating contents. By the way Nice work @daut44. Keep sharing with us.

Yup, leaving thoughtful comments on other people's blogs is great and intelligent discourse should be the lifeblood of steemit. I already do it quite a bit so I didn't need a reminder on that, but some people definitely need to get out of their own pages more often.

absolutely

these are likely to get you way ahead. check again in a week! you'll be surprised :)

I just love this!
I know it's all easier said than done, but I applaud you!
The relationships you'll get from this should pay you back ten fold :)

Day 1 has been pretty tough to keep up with. At one point had 40 tabs of unopened articles to read 😳 But Inread through those and commented on stuff that left an impression and got inspiration for some posts out of it. But am engaging other people I wouldn't be otherwise

I am new here. So my Personal Goal this week is to figure out how this site works. Personally, I am the scratch my back and I will scratch your back sort of person. If anyone comment and vote up my posts, I will return the favor.

I can see that you achieve your goals too. Great going Ryan, great going. And thanks a lot.