I am working on a plan to fully fund and pay for a family holiday in July next year with STEEM. These regular posts will update my progress.
It's been 10 days since my last update, so what has been happening?
Work has been really busy, and draining a lot of my energy. This has affected my effort on STEEM, and I have been on autopilot a bit. Still, last week I got some decent payout and grew my STEEM holdings decently.
Last week I added 25 STEEM to my savings and 40 STEEM Power to my overall account. Really pleased with that week, to grow by 65 STEEM overall in 1 week is super exciting. I did it through various means. I had some good 
All in all, a very successful week
Change of Plan.
I have decided that I am changing tactics a bit in this effort to pay for a family holiday next year. I had been putting funds aside into the built in savings account here. These funds earn 0 for me. I have come to the conclusion that that isn't good enough, and have initiated a withdrawal of these funds. STEEM is a bit of a waste just sitting idle, so its time to use it. All my earnings now will be powered up and I shall delegate SP out for returns. I plan on delegating to 
I will consider delegations of this sort to be my holiday savings now. When the time approaches to start paying for my holidays, I will undelegate as needed and power down. This is not a sign I don't have faith in STEEM, on the contrary it is because I have high confidence in STEEM that leads me to this. Growth of crypto will come from adoption, and this is my contribution to that. I am here to be a part of a community, be in the game from early days, learn, help others, and improve my family's finances and lifestyle. Lets see what we can do over the next 7-8 months.
The elephant in the room
Obviously, Crypto markets have crashed, and STEEM has suffered with the rest. I strongly believe that the fundamentals for STEEM are much stronger than many other crypto's, and STEEM is oversold. I so wish that I had spare fiat right now, as I think STEEM is an absolute bargain at current prices (0.46 USD as I write this). Never mind, anything I can swap into steem is happening at the moment, and hopefully the turnaround won't be too far off.
Because of the volatility, and also because it might dent my optimism, I won't calculate my STEEM target for this holiday right now. Suffice to say that at current prices, I need a lot of STEEM to pay for my trip. Now is a good time to earn STEEM, and the price will climb.
What else have I been doing?
The other thing I have started is playing 
I am still planning on reaching out to the people at 
So that's about it for this update. I'll let you know later in the week how I'm travelling, in the meantime, keep on STEEMing.
My Previous STEEM Powered Holiday posts are:
- Post 5 - The Going Gets Tough.
- Post 4 - First Week of Savings.
- Post 3 - Talking Money.
- Post 2 - The Long Road Ahead.
- Post 1 - The launch.
Thanks for reading, follow me for regular updates, and if you can spare a vote or a re-steem, that would be great. Not accepting donations towards my holiday as there are more important causes to support on STEEM.
John.
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Banner thanks to Baa
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