I do love to travel but have I developed “holiday guilt”? --- Yes, I think I have “holiday guilt” – is that a commonly used term?
I’ve been a little quiet on Steemit as I’m enjoying a break from the usual stresses and strains of life with a break in Fuerteventura in the beautiful Canary Islands. Fuerteventura is a unique volcanic island which I will post about further when a I have assimilated some photos and footage.
I am also tantalisingly close to bigtime Steemit Advocates and Canary Island residents @surfermarly, @killianparadise and @cauac but sadly I’m on a different island which is a short ferry or flight away from them. I can totally understand why they enjoy life on this archipelago and just sorry I didn’t get to meet you guys! (PS. I can totally understand why Steemit is going to be big on these Islands).
The holiday comes about as I was overdue to spend some quality time with my family after a very busy five months, but at the same time it has also been good to have some quality thinking time and I seem to have been very “reflective” on this trip.
Here is one photo of me reflecting looking into a Volcano crater – I spent a bit of time thinking about Steemit whilst I was there: and the photo captures the moment I was contemplating what nutter would go scrambling over the edge and get to the heart of the crater!!
My involvement in Steemit is helping me to be more conscious and aware of the world we live in and I hope it’s shaping me into a better human too. Throughout my time on Steemit I’ve been connecting with people globally who are living in more difficult economic conditions and this fuels my humanitarian thoughts and will be sure to guide my future path on the Steemit journey.
Reflections on Inequality & Promo-Steem
- Born in the UK, does that make me lucky?
- A holiday is a luxury item – do I “need” a holiday?
- Why do I feel guilt for being on holiday?
- Is this a consumer good for the UK consumer society set at the heart of a global economic system which perpetuates global wealth inequality?
- How can blockchain technology bridge the gap on global inequality and reduce poverty and hunger?
- How can promoting Steemit and encouraging mainstream adoption solve real world global problems?
- What “good” can come from my holiday?
Well I’m supposed to be on a “break” so I won’t actually answer all these questions in detail now – they are just examples of my reflective state of mind!!!
Pay It Forward
What I will do though is pay it forward, I’ve just sent SBD10 through to one of the first people I met on Steemit he was supportive of my project CryptoCoffeeChat and he does great work on promoting Steemit in Nigeria. Here he is, he is the awesome, Sam @samstickkz, you can read about his great work for #stach with @ejemai here.
He doesn’t know the money is coming but he can use the 10 SBD to buy a “holiday day” to do something inspirational and uplifting for a day. No strings he can do whatever he likes with it, he might power up and he might even pay some of it forward. I’m not sure what 10SBD will mean to him locally – but judging by my recent reading it will have more purchasing power to him in Nigeria than it does to me in the UK, and I trust him to put it to good use...
What will I get from my break in Fuerteventura:
- Rest and battery recharging – so that I’m ready to give more, and add value, where ever I contribute or volunteer on and off the platform
- Education - from reading and opening my mind to new ideas through books and Steemit.
- Health - some investment in fitness from a bit of cycling, hiking, running and a trip to a spa.
- Inspiration from awe-inspiring vistas which I have committed to camera and drone footage - ready for future use.
- **Renewed Passion ** for Posts & Project ideas below.
New Ideas: I’m planning a series of posts about Inequality, Poverty and Hunger
There is so much we can say to raise awareness of the issues of the current imbalance on global inequality and the lack of progress towards achieving improvement over the last 50 years. Can we find real solutions from the blockchain technology – and with a greater take up in Steemit – could we make a real difference.
Some of the things I have found easy on the platform:
- Being able to do peer-to-peer lending
- Transferring SBD easily directly to people far less privileged than me - red tape free, frictionless and transaction free
- Supporting good causes – especially made easier through projects like @adollaraday by @pennsif from more information read here. Funds getting to those that need it fast and free.
I’m really looking forward to writing this series.
New Ideas: I’m planning a series of posts about promo-steem
I’ve got a lot of ideas that I could discuss with the official community approved @Steem-Ambassador’s such as:
- Ways and means of cleaning the tag from poor quality posts and tag abuse – I think we can all do more to leave comments manually (I did approx. 10 comments yesterday showing the author the community guidelines here– definitely three have already moved the tag, and I even got a 100% upvote for my comment from one of the abusers!)
- Identifying new Ambassadors and encouraging applications from new geographic territory where we don’t have a community approved Steem-Ambassador
- I’ve got some ideas about Surveys that we need to conduct to understand the "customer (users) journey"
- I’ve got some ideas about how we need to tailor the marketing to different “personas” – to create a hook which would encourage new registrations from techies, bloggers, businesses, entrepreneurs, community visionaries and crypto enthusiasts.
- Competition ideas which will help create great marketing images
Anyway, for now, I have a few days left of my break – I’m currently at 80% battery recharge! Can’t wait to be back to 100%!
Watch this space and see you soon…
Best Wishes
