I just entered into the @merej99 community challenge. It is a post I resteemed that I highly recommend everyone to take a gander to see if it’s something that you could benefit from.
Here: @merej99/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is-a-community-challenge
I plan on writing the qualifications for this challenge as a 7-10 part series. This post is #1.
My goal as spelled out in the challenge is to write ONE quality post per day for at least 7 of 10 days.
• Respond to all comments
• Minimum of 1 photo/gif
• Minimum 300 words
There are some additional requirements specified in the original post along with potential prizes.
The prizes are cool but that is not the reason I entered. When I 1st joined STEEMIT about 5 weeks ago my primary motivation was the potential profit’s that be can be made from posting, curating and speculating on the price of STEEM.
As time passed by something really wonderful began to happen. Let me qualify that I’m primarily an introvert with set limits on how much I will connect with people. I am a bit paranoid and do not have many real friends virtually or otherwise. I am a high school drop out and have a felony conviction for selling 1 ounce of cannabis when I was 21 to who I then believed to be a friend.
Among other things one of my biggest fears has always been writing. I quickly discovered on STEEMIT if I wanted to succeed here I would have to get out of my comfort zone. I needed to discard my old belief system and start to evolve into a new person.
As I tried to wrap my head around this platform and all of the moving parts:
• Functionality of all the keys
• Protecting my keys
• Tools for monitoring my account
• Automation tools i.e. voting bots
• Function of votes, post, comments and resteem’s
• Chat room’s and more
My head began to spin from information overload. Fearing that I may have not used my keys correctly paranoia began to set in and I went back to square one “Functionality and protection of my keys”. I think it was almost comical how I reset my master password and keys about 4-5 times ( I lost count). Once I was confident enough that I had properly secured and backed up my keys I then began to power up my account.
Forgive me part 2 is coming up next.
Thank you for reading.
Below is a photo I shot this last weekend at Asbury Park NJ.
