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Today is my **38th day** on Steem and this is **the second** of a series of progress logs I am maintaining about my goals and journey on the Steem platform.
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# Inspiration

**The idea and credit for this post and planned series goes to @valorforfreedom.**

I have been following his journey log towards 100000 Steem Power for the last few weeks. Please visit his profile to know more about his journey.

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# Approach

My approach is to break down my Steem journey into smaller steps with goals which do not look too far away. I think there's no right or wrong way of doing this, it's just how you approach things and how you function as an individual - what motivates you and how self-motivation works for you.

I will have visible goals and I think it will be easier for me to track progress and motivate myself to achieve those goals if I am able to see the finishing line up ahead not too far away.

It will, however, be a changing goalpost and as soon as I reach a goal I will set an even loftier goal and work towards it.
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# Current Goals

✦ **Total Steem Power:** 1000
✦ **Owned Steem Power:** 500
✦ **Leased Steem Power:** 500
✦ **Followers:** 500
✦ **Reputation:** 60
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# Progress Report

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# What I have done since my last progress report

✦ I started my Steemit journey with a broken arm, so it put a brake initially but now I am slowly getting up to speed
✦ I participated in the community by reading and commenting on posts of authors I like and follow
✦ I joined Zappl, the Twitter like platform built on top of the Steem blockchain. Zappl is targeting the micro-blogging community. I thought about it and decided I will not ignore it as I did with Twitter. I will use it not so much for writing articles but for sharing interesting finds from the internet - interesting stories, articles, videos, websites; anything that catches my eye
Here is my Zappl profile, please go check it out (it only has two Zaps now :D):
	https://zappl.com/@svkrulze
✦ Update on my Ramblings on Life Series: I published three articles in this series
	[Ramblings on Life #2 Do you get paid what you deserve?](https://steemit.com/life/@svkrulze/ramblings-on-life-2-do-you-get-paid-what-you-deserve)
	[Ramblings on Life #3 Increase your worth in four steps](https://steemit.com/blog/@svkrulze/ramblings-on-life-3-increase-your-worth-in-four-steps)
	[Ramblings on Life #4 Payback with interest](https://steemit.com/blog/@svkrulze/ramblings-on-life-4-payback-with-interest)
✦ I now have my very own Crypto Empire 'citizen' banner. Thank you @spiritualmax for it. You guys can find it at the end of this post

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# Log Frequency

I post regular updates on my progress and what I did to reach my goals. 

However, I don't necessarily post a daily update due to 
(a) lack of time and 
(b) lack of reportable update.
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Thanks for reading, let me know what you think about my journey log! See you next time!
 
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