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Hey, good day!
I was checking out posts yesterday and wanted to greet one of my mentors in Steemit on his birthday, @chinito, then I saw his post about a Steemit challenge he made. I read it and I realized I want to try it. If you want to read the challenge, you may check it out in this link: [Steemit Success Challenge by @chinito.](https://steemit.com/challenge/@chinito/steemit-success-10-new-follows-a-day-and-1-post-a-day-challenge#@mermaidvampire/re-chinito-steemit-success-10-new-follows-a-day-and-1-post-a-day-challenge-20180416t025337300z)

I'm making a post about it now to show my commitment. I consider him as a mentor and we chat once in awhile in Discord about making Steemit work. I hope he checks me out every now and then to make sure I will honor my word about accepting this challenge. I am lazy sometimes and I forget things, that's why I said that. I am excited to see the effects of this challenge in my Steemit journey. I hope it helps me anyhow because I really need to up my engagement and make time to post valuable stuff in the platform.

I will be sharing my baseline data for the challenge. So this post is the "BEFORE" post and sometime in the future, after a month, I will show the "AFTER" and give a review about the challenge. I think I will learn a lot in doing this. I might also make updates along the way as I do the challenge.

Here is my baseline Steemit profile data for reference:

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For the Following.
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For other Account Stats, info taken from [Steemworld.](https://steemworld.org/@mermaidvampire)</center>

I also made a spreadsheet to track my progress. I want to visit and tabulate results daily so I will have a good grasp of the effects if there is any.
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So, that's it. This post is to express my intent to join the challenge and to put pressure upon myself to do the daily tasks it asks for. (LOL) Thank you @chinito for this awesome idea and thanks for always being supportive of my Steemit journey.  I am hoping this challenge will give my account a significant boost.

I am inviting other Steemians to do this challenge as well. Shout out to @korinkrafting, @cinderz, @olivia08, @benedict08, and @jimcustodio. 

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