Forget about SquadGoals and RelationshipGoals... it's time to think about SteemitGoals. It seems strange for an average Joe to think about setting goals for a social network, right? I was inspired to write this by Hive account@stackin's post on his July goals. When I first arrived on Steemit, coming up to 3 weeks ago, I didn't have any kind of measurable goal. I was too busy being completely fascinated by this thing I never knew existed and trying to understand how it worked...

Obviously, social networks and blogging are primarily about having fun, being creative and socialising, but the crypto aspect of Steemit definitely makes me think that it is worth setting some goals in order to stay motivated and have a clear focus. I mean, even setting a goal as simple as making $10 a day on Steemit... after 1 year would be $3650, which considering I have been on Facebook for the past 10 years and never made a cent, seems pretty wonderful. 💰

What Kind of Goals Could I Set For My Steemit Account?

Goals are so personal that your Steemit goals will be different from my goals, and my goals will be different from my husbands goals. It completely depends how you want Steemit to fit in with the rest of your life. Outside of Steemit, one of my goals is to go back to university (I want to study Primary Education) as soon as I get my Permanent Residency here in Australia, which lets just say I have been waiting for for a while...

So it would be great if for now any Steem I earn from my posts and comments I Power Up and save for the future in the hope that it can make a contribution towards the cost of education. In order to be consistent and make sure I do that though, I'm going to have to be SMART about it...

1. Specific: 💭 By saying out loud that "I want money from my blog to go towards university fees." I have a clear goal I can work towards in the future.

2. Measurable:✅ I work in customer-service but I also have some cross-selling involved in my job as well. I find that if I say to myself at the beginning of the month that I want to get $20 a day worth of sales, and I keep track of that each day, I finish with a decent payout at the end. If I don't set a trackable target I get to the end of the month and find that I haven't made as much as I would like.

Find an amount that suits you to focus on. Whether it is $5 a day, $10 a day or even $30 a week from Steemit. Track how well you are doing over the week and allow that to motivate you to get more involved in creating content, and upvoting and commenting on others posts. If you need help I suggest you check out this post by Hive account@trevonjb on how to make $20 a day on Steemit.

3. Attainable: 🍀 I don't like setting unrealistic goals. It's like saying "I want to lose 10 kilos this month" and then feeling demotivated about whatever you did lose because it wasn't as good as the crazy goal you set for yourself. Some people have real killer goals, take Hive account@stackin for example, he set himself a goal of 2000 followers in a month, and he achieved it:

But you have to remember that some people who come to Steemit come from other areas of social media where they have experience and a huge following. There is no way that I would reach that number in 1 month, so for me I will set a goal of 550 followers :)
4. Relevant:📌 Make sure the goals that you set are going to help you achieve whatever overall goal you have for Steemit, depending on how it fits into your life.
5. Time Based: 🏁 Setting yourself time parameters stops you from procrastinating and putting things off. So how many followers did you want to get this month? How many posts do you want to write this week? How many comments do you want to leave each day?

Have you guys already set yourselves Steemit Goals? What are they? Let me know in the comments!! 😍