My goal with my crypto-involvement in general is to create for myself more and more residual income. I am currently accumulating Diamond DMD coin, which currently mints at 25%. When I reach my goal, I will earn roughly $20 to $25 a month by selling back the newly minted coins. With Steemit, I'm also hoping to accumulate enough Steem Power so that among other things I can guarantee some daily income simply by upvoting a few of my own posts and comments.

I also have holdings in DNotes and XEM, and I'm hoping one day I will be able to cash them out and build a dream house for my family.

Those are some specifics. Overall what I'd like to do is to be able to raise my five children and be able to sign them up for whatever activities would benefit them without having to worry about whether or not we have the money for it. I currently have a dream job, which is working as the director of religious education at my church. I'd like to keep working that job, not because I need the money, but because I love it. Right now it's both.

Why am I on Steemit? Ultimately, I have a similar goal that you have. Rather than trying to write in such a way that a whale might take notice and grace me with an upvote, I'd like to be that whale. Once I pay myself a bit by upvoting my own content, I'd like to find other people on Steemit who are doing interesting things that I believe in and then support them with my upvotes. Perhaps I'll even actively solicit "applications" for such things, kind of like what you're doing here.