Greetings, Steemers and Steemettes!

It always amazes me how different one can perceive time. After signing up on May the 16, 8 days it took for completing the process felt like they took forever! Last thursday in the middle of the night, I finally received my final E-Mail and was quite enthusiastic because I was super looking forward into getting this whole steeming going. Today, I will talk to you about how my first week on this great platform has been treating me.

Everyone loves prequels!

I actually tried to avoid anything related to Steemit during that week because I wanted to go into this as blind as possible so that I could pick anything interesting that might be interesting for me along the way. Maybe not the most efficient and effective way to do things, but it helps keeping things fresh and exciting. And I have a history of spoiling myself when it comes to these things, so this was also a nice test for me.

Every couple of minutes when I found myself being restless or not having anything of immediate interest to do, I would check my E-Mails, hoping that I finally could start. I really was eager to get started on here. And boy, oh boy, nothing made me more upset than realizing that I received an E-Mail that ended up not being the Mail I was waiting for. That is really all there was to this time of waiting. Just pain and impatience. But it paid off! When the E-Mail finally arrived, I received an energy surge and immediatly started to get into it even though it was already close to midnight.

So how was my first week of steemit?

Pretty interesting I would say. Whenever I had some time to spare, I would read up blogposts of all kinds of topics. Some of them were very interesting, others outright bizarre. I went wild in comment sections and had short conversations with a couple of people and was able to learn a couple things that way as well.

Then I started posting. At first, I introduced myself of course. That much was a matter of politeness. I had nothing particular planned out, still haven't, everything I have written up to this point has been stuff that was on my mind at the time, the only thing that was important to me at the time was making a habit out of posting daily and making the weird thoughts in my head comprehensible. Overall, I would say that I did a decent enough job at that. It also feels good having to deal with the english language so much. Given how I live in germany, there are way too little opportunities to actually do that. I still want to get into Dtubing as well because as much as writing has been joyful so far, I really also need to rust of my actual english speaking skills.

Thanks to being active in the comment sections and posting, I even managed to get a decent numbers of followers already. Almost 200, in fact, a number that I wouldn't have deemed to be possible, especially within a week. I was aimong for 10-25, so needless to say that I exceeded my expectations. What really puts a smile on my face is that among these many people, there are a couple of names that I see upvoting my posts regulary and these are probably the ones that I feel the most thankful for. Everyone who ever did anything wants to feel some kind of reward, some kind of positive reinforcement that what he does is being recognized by someone. These people showing me their ongoing support right from the start actually means the world for me and drives me to keep on posting and further improving on myself.

Talking about pay-off, I remember the very first comment I made that received an upvote that was worth something. 0,04$, in fact, and it was pretty much one week ago, so it actually has been rewarded to me by now.

It ain't much, but it is a start! And boy, is it satisfying! Over the course of the next day, some more of my efforts and exploits should be listed in my reward tap as well and I am looking forward to seeing how much I will get out of it. Still not sure whether to keep the counter at 50/50 or if I should just let it give me steempower straight. I feel like the latter may be the better option, but if someone among you has a more educated opinion on that, feel free to share it with me.

So how is this going to continue?

I will be starting to work in a new job soon, so that will create some shifts in my time table which I will be able to work around. My goal is to continue posting once, possibly twice a day. The topics that interest me the most that I want to cover in my posts for the most part will be motivational content but also themes centered around sports, health, potencial of the mind and some other related themes. I am in the process of becoming my best possible self this year, so I will give regular reports on that as well. Another topic that is really close to my heart is reading. There are quite a few books of different genres that I enjoyed and that I want to write revues about, but I also want to read a lot more practical books, so I will want to weave those two together. I also really enjoyed writing that Getting Over It post, so I think that I will also write some things related to gaming, movies and other entertainment media that I enjoyed in the past as well.

So yeah. Things are looking good for me here on steemit and I am pretty much as enthusiastic as I was at the start. From my side, there is plenty more to come and I am sure that you will enjoy it.

With that being said, the last thing I want to say, for everyone who has been a part of this journey so far;

Thank you all for your loyalty and support.