NEWBIES INITIATIVE TASK 1: My Hive Goals and Strategies for Achieving them.
“Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.“ — Mark Twain
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Having joined the second edition of the newbies initiative program which is aimed at guiding newbies in the right direction on hive, we've been posed with our first ever task 😁; “Hive goals and strategies for achieving them.“ So, in this post, I'll be discussing in detail, my hive goals and the strategies I've put in place to achieve them.
You see, all my life, I've always been a goal-oriented person and like the meaning of the above quote, goals are highly substantial in life. Since my very first day on hive, I've always had a goal in mind and anytime I do something that doesn't align with my goal, I snap out of it and remind myself; “Dimma, this isn't why you're here 😏“.
Now,
What are the benefits of setting goals?
Truly, the benefits of setting goals cannot be overemphasized. In my opinion, setting goals are necessary to help one stay motivated, focused, productive and on the right track. Living without setting goals for oneself is like living without a purpose and we all know that's not an actual life. Personally, setting goals has made me more hardworking and purposeful. There's always this sense of self-mastery that comes with accomplishing my goals and even when I don't, at least I know I strived.
What are your goals as regards your Hive power, your followers, your engagement and your consistency and any other goals as a newbie here on Hive.
According to @starstrings01's article, one must learn to set "SMART"(SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ATTAINABLE, RELEVANT and TIME-BOUND) goals. So in line with that, below are my hive goals for the next 7 weeks of this program:
HIVE POWER
Currently, I have a hive power of 205.332 excluding my delegated HP and my goal is to reach 350hp in 7 weeks time. This goal is important to me because I believe the higher my hp, the higher my curation power and status on hive. Also, achieving this goal would be a stepping stone towards achieving 1k HP goal by next may (my 1year hive birthday). I believe this goal is attainable because, I usually make 10-15 HP a week.
FOLLOWERS
At the time of making this post, I have 71 followers and my goal is to reach 200 followers in 7 weeks time. Having a bigger follower base goes a long way in developing one's blog, visibility and traffic. That's why this goal is relevant to me. I wish to connect with more people and I've now taken it upon myself to grow my followers. All I need to do within seven weeks is gain approximately 130 more followers to reach my goal.
ENGAGEMENT/ CONSISTENCY
According to my hivebuzz board, I've made above 1200 comments and my goal is to make an additional 1300 comments, totaling 2500 comments. This goal is relevant because asides increasing my chances of gaining followers and visibility, staying active and engaging on hive will help improve my awareness, knowledge and dexterity in writing. I'd get to learn new things, see things from other author's perspectives and expand my social skills.
As for the area of consistency, I wish to make nothing less than 5 posts weekly and keep striving towards making at least one post daily. At the moment, I've made 100 posts and my goal is to reach 150 posts in the next seven weeks. I just need to make an additional 50 posts. This goal is relevant to me because it'll increase my chances of meeting my hp, reputation and writing improvement goals.
REPUTATION
Currently, I have a reputation of 61 and my goal is to reach 65 in the next 7 weeks. This goal means a lot to me because it'll help me stay motivated to keep dishing out quality content for curation. In general, it'll keep me more active, consistent and give me a sense of higher progression on hive. I know it won't be easy but I believe this goal is realistic and achievable because I'm just 4 percents away from reaching my goal.
What are the strategies do you want to put in place to achieve your goals?
For my HP goal, I plan to attain it through consistent posting, not just in quantity but quality as well. I'll also top up my curation activity by constantly voting on more people's posts daily and claiming curation rewards. Hopefully, if my hp payouts for a week increases to 20 or more (20hp×7weeks =140hp||140hp+ 205hp=345hp), then of course, I can achieve this goal and even surpass it too.
In order to achieve my followers goal, I plan to be more interesting and adequate with my engagement level. I'll do well to comment daily on people's posts, make friends, follow more and follow back. If I'm able to gain 20+ followers a week, then I can definitely hit 200+ followers in 7 weeks.
My strategy for attaining my engagement goal is making 5 comments each in 10 of my favorite communities like hive learners, ladies of Hive, needleworkmonday, weekendexperiences, movies and tv shows, music, Hive open mic, etc. If I'm able to make 50 comments each day, I will have made 350 comments in a week. So, I most likely will reach and even surpass my goal.
I hope to attain my consistency goal through reading more to generate ideas and inspiration, posting eye-catching content regularly, participating in contests and sometimes making two posts daily.
Lastly, to attain my reputation goal, I'll work towards posting more quality content regularly that would attract hive whales and curators for upvotes.
What do you think might hinder you from achieving your set goals?
SHORTAGE OF POWER SUPPLY
Unfortunately, I don't have a stable electricity in my area of residence, I don't have a durable phone battery neither do I have a power bank. This sorry situation has often hindered me from doing more on hive. I'm always limiting my activities here because I keep trying to manage my battery. I may not be able to change the electricity problems but I'm working hard towards getting a new phone or at least a power bank for now, so I can keep on hiving without limitations of that sort.
SCHOOL
Since the academic strike in my country has been called off, class activities will soon resume with a haste and that means, more workload. I've only been able to keep up with my level of activeness thanks to the strike but now that it's over, I'm nervous about how my hive growth will be. Especially because I'm a sucker for time-management. But God knows I'm not ready to give up on school or hive. I will see both to the end and I'll do my best to create a balance that'll work in my favour.
•FINAL WORDS•
I'd sincerely like to thank the newbies initiative team @starstrings01 @theycallmedan and @aliento for this innovative program, their support and the privilege to be accepted as a member. Of course, my gratitude will be incomplete without extending my thanks to @nkemakonam89, my amazing onboarder... Thank you for enlightening me on this program and for having my hive growth at best interest. Last but not the least, thank you @vickoly for all you do, you've been such a great leader for our team 2 😊.
And to my dear readers,
THANKS FOR READING! ❤️
Hello there @dimmablogs . I hope you’re doing well.
Firstly, it is so nice that you made it to the second edition of the newbies initiative program, and I know by the end of this program, you’d have learned a lot. I like your goals; they are smart goals.
I know with the right attitude, you’ll achieve these goals by the end of the program.
Have a nice day.
I'm doing great, thank you. Trust you're good too?
Yes, it's really nice and I'm excited for this journey and the new experiences it'd bring. Sure, I'm certain you'll learn a lot too.
I'm glad you liked them... Of course, I'm more than willing to strive for my success.
Thanks a lot for your kind words, I appreciate you stopping by 😊.
Have a nice day too!
Yes, I'm also doing very well.
You're welcome ❤️.
Wow you've got a wonderful set of goals, and with the way you listed the strategy of achieving them, I'm sure you'll go beyond if you remain committed and dedicated to your strategy.
Attaining extra 150hp from 50 post is something that's very much attainable and I won't be surprise if you hit 400Hp.
It's also good to know you've engagement in mind, because it's one of the essential criteria for growth on the blockchain.
I wish you all the best in achieving your goals.
Though like I usually say, let see more of you in our team two channel.
Thank you for your kind words sir ❤️. Of course, I'm also working towards surpassing my laid down goals. And yes, I'll definitely put in the right energy towards following my strategy.
Engagement is literally the backbone of one's Hive growth, I'm glad I got to realize that soon and I'm willing to improve on that aspect.
My apologies sir, I'll be much more active on the channel from now on.
This is a really detailed explanation of and how you plan on achieving them.
Well for a little advise, I will want you to make a time table and do well to allocate your time to different things that you might possibly do in a day and try your best to follow it, at least 50%, that way it will help you in your time management.
For the aspect of growing your followers, I will advise you make use of the ecency front-end more frequently than before because I've observed that most new persons coming to hive use the ecency front-end and they mostly follow those that are on the leader board especially the top ten. But if that might be hard based on the challenges you've stated, I will also advise you to be really serious about joining contests as you said, it helps a lot.
Are you on dreemport site? If no please try to join, it will also help you gain visibility on your contents, here is a link for creating your account https://staging.dreemport.com/. If you have any questions, please do well to shout out to @dreemsteem or @samsmith1971 🥰.
There are other things I had in mind to say but now I don't remember all but I'm sure you will achieve your goals if you can do at least one of these things I have mentioned.
All the best dear ❤️.
Yes, I'm going to create a timetable as you've said, that way I can keep track of my time and activities...
Thank you for reminding me, I'm just so used to PeakD that I keep forgetting to stay active on Ecency. Though I do use it sometimes but I'll start using it more often now to engage. Contests have helped me a lot and yes I'll keep up with that.
Again, you've just reminded me of dreemport, I've heard about it during one of Sam's hangout engagement. I totally forgot to check it out... I'll use the link you provided.
You've already done and said so much for me sis, thank you ❤️ I really appreciate your advice and visit. God bless you and have a beautiful day... Oh yes, you're on discord so if I have any more questions or challenges, I'll hit you up 😊.
Okay dear, I'm happy that you find the advice useful, I know you will surprise yourself with the improvements, hehe.
Of course, feel free to hit me up any time, whenever I'm online I will reply you 🥰.
Have a fabulous day moving forward dear.
Hehe, I'm sure I will too.
Okayyy!
Thanks sis 😘.
Yes you can and you will 🥰.
Woww
This is what we call SMART GOAL
Amazing 😍🤩...I love the way you dissected this task and you know what Dimma, I trust you on this 👌
Ever since you joined hive, I see determination in you to succeed and that's why I will keep supporting your growth in any way I can. Even with the NEPA light issues in your estate, you still try your best to engage and drop your post.
One thing I know is that anything you set your mind to achieve, becomes possible if you do so with determination and consistency and by God's grace as well. I hope you will find ways to balance your school life and hive life.
Weldon my dear and good luck with your goals 👍👌👏
My hype mama is finally here 😍... Thank you so much for believing in me 🥺. Just so you know, you and @hopestylist are my major hive role models. The energy you give here is top-notch and I wish to keep striving like you both.
I'm glad you liked my goals and yes I've always been the type to set my mind to whatever I wish to achieve... By God's grace, I'll overcome my limitations, attain and surpass these goals.
Thank you for your kind words and warm visit ❤️.
Smiles 😊
It's a pleasure 😘👍
Thank God you know that Ma'am @nkemakonam89 is our hype mama 🥰❤️.
It's always a privilege to be of help dear, I'm so honored to be a role model to you, I hope I don't let you down 🥰.
Hehe she sure is 😅...
I trust you won't 😊.
Hehehe
You sef dey support hope, you no fit protect your sister 😂😂👍
😅 Why not? I'll also support and protect her 😌
Smiles, I pray so too ❤️.
Hehehe
You guys should free me oo 😂😂
Hope, I sight you my darling 🥰🤗
Ma'am we can't oo, we don't want to hear that we don't tap grace everyday Ma'am 🥰🥰.
I sight you graciously too Ma'am 💕.
Don't forget to start using the ecency front-end to comment oo, lolz.
Lol, I've just started... I hope to keep using this frontend constantly.
Please try dear, it will be of help to you and also once in a while, try to comment on posts on the hot section, it must not only be the people you see very often 🥰.
Sure I will 😊
Alright dear
hhhhhmmmmmmm, welldone my dear, i have seen your strength and weakness and i think you will be fine because i know you, yu are a fighter and a winner, i believe you will achieve your goals before seven weeks, you have layed yur foundation as a good engager and i think that is first, i am rooting for you my dear, stay strong and keep working towards and beyond your goals...
Awwwn, it warms my heart to know that you think that of me 🥺. Oh yesss, I'll definitely crush these goals!
Thank you for your kind words Foxy ❤️... I really appreciate having you here.
I trust you're doing good?
ohhhh yeah i am okay and never felt less better, stay strong and fight.. see you out here in 7 weeks.. fighting
I'm glad to hear that... Sure, fighting! 💪
aye aye go dimma
Yeah the strike has been suspended
Scheduling schooling and blogging might be difficult but am sure you can still balance the both
I wish you the best in this initiative
Yeah, I'd need to improve on my time management skill and juggle the both effectively. I sure hope I can overcome this challenge.
Thank you for your kind words and visit! ❤️
You're you can
I know you're a strong woman ❤️
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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Thanks buzz!
You're welcome @dimmablogs, it's well deserved! Congrats on your constant involvement on Hive 😊👍
Wow! having a SMART goals will really lead you to success
I hope you can achieve your goals at early time @dimmablogs. Just keep going.
Sure it will... I really hope so too and like you said, I'll keep going and working hard.
Thank you for your kind words and visit! ❤️
You are resuming back to school soon too😳that’s amazing to hear because you have been staying at home for a long time and I know to achieve all the goals you have listed won’t be easy but with determination and focus mindset you will sure make it.
Go dimma😊❤️.
Yes, the strike's been suspended so I'll be back in school soon... It won't be easy juggling hive and studies but yeah the right determination and mindset will go a long way in my success.
Thanks babe ❤️, I appreciate it!
Hope we all shine like a star. 🌟
You explained your goals beautifully.
Hehe, we certainly will 😊...
Thank you, I appreciate your warm visit! ❤️
it is great that you are setting goals, you have good plan for future goals, it is good that you creating time table, try to visit other hive member post , make you good friend, share quality of content , your every mints on hive will bring your goals close @dimmablogs/
Thank you so much for your kind words and advice, I'll definitely heed to them. ❤️😊
The first quote to your post got me hooked. I like how you stated why you want to achieve these goals. With hardwork, we'll get to see ourselves at the top. It's really nice to meet you, hive is a small place, I look forward to seeing you again
Hehe, I'm glad you liked it too. It's a really touching quote.
Yes, hardwork is key to staying on top. Though not easy but determination will make it possible.
It's nice to meet you too. Of course!
Thanks for stopping by 😊.
Surly living without goals is just existing not living, i see you've set out your goals so well and you seem like you will do more than what you've later out. Good luck!
Exactly! And we must live not merely exist.
I'm also looking forward to outdoing myself. Thank you so much for your encouraging words and warm visit. I wish you good luck as well on your hive growth journey! ❤️
Well outlined goals with strategic means of achieving them.keep it up and all your goals will be a reality in no time.
Yeah, of course...
Thank you for your encouraging words!