What are your intentions here??

What are your intentions here?

I got forced to ask myself this question really early on when joining the platform. I’m glad I did, and here’s why.

First off, setting intentions are a very powerful thing. It's something I ask myself on a daily basis. I use a particular day planner with prompts to help me set intentions each day.

Intentions are much like goals. Long term and short term. The short term, should be evaluated each day. Because those intentions can change often.

We also have long term intentions, such as, what your intention for the Steemit platform may be.

There’s also even longer term intentions, such as life. What kind of life/lifestyle to you intend to live?

In my experience, taking the time to have clarity around my intentions has been much more beneficial than focusing on “goals”.

I have goals too, but my intentions are what keep me on the path to achieve those goals.

So, What are your intentions for this platform?

This is how I came up with my intention:

It did take me a day or two to get to know the platform and get an idea of what was going on and to analyze how I was going to utilize it and what my true intentions were going to be here. (I’m still learning and I think more and more clarity and ideas will come)

As I explored, and tried to determine what that was going to be, I eliminated the fact that I could earn on here. I had to take that part away, because it’s distracting. And I knew it would be easy for me to set goals and intentions around that very thing, “how can I make money”?

I had to ask myself, how would I utilize this platform, if the option of making money didn’t exist?

I had to look at it the same as I would any other platform, we need to build community and be part of community to have any sort of impact on any social media site, and I believe Steemit to be no different in that sense. Being here, I realized this is probably even more true than my original thought.

Working in the space of personal development, spiritual growth and mindset, my intentions are to help people, to support people, to uplift and empower anyway I can. I’ve spent a significant amount of time applying much of what I teach in my own life experiences. It inspired me to collaborate what I learned and to give it back, in a less confusing and messy way.

I didn’t choose the path of personal development and spiritual growth, it chose me. I was forced to look at my mindset and create a new one. My perceptions needed to be adjusted here and there and it made all the difference.

Throughout my own healing journey, I discovered my true passions and I felt I finally had a purpose.

Turning something like that into a “business” isn’t the the easiest task. Finding ways to monetize it, is still something I’m consistently working towards. But, the more I focus on building communities and being part of communities with like-minded people and lending a helping hand, anywhere I can, I realized, it will monetize itself, overtime.

I’m not trying to sell you anything. Part of my intentions here are learning more about how I can serve better. Getting to know people, seeing common mindset issues, seeing the perceptions in a diverse community. That is value to me.

Important questions to determine what you want to gain here:

• What value do I want from this platform and communities?
• Other than the currency of Steem, what else can I gain from being here?
• What can I learn that will better shape my brand message, business or cause?

That is what I find so unique about Steemit, it’s a give and take. And, I believe it’s an important mindset to have going into it that will help set you up to find a more pure, beneficial intention.

Things aren’t black and white:

It may appear, you can just join, post, upvote and comment little and be on the path of financial freedom. That IS too good to be true. As rare as this opportunity here is, there are still secrets in making it work. I believe that secret to be, know your intentions and make sure they are pure and fair.

People will continuously seek out ways to manipulate it but I think as new people join, they will find themselves striving, reaching and right back at square one, rather than going with the flow, allowing things to unfold with pure intentions.

If you’re not clear on what your intentions are for being here on this platform, I hope this inspires you to revisit your intention and see if it’s going to serve you and the integrity of the platform.

To help set your intentions:

• What do I want to get?
• What do I want to give?
• What is my message?
• In what ways can I convey that message?
• What niche communities am I going to be able to engage in naturally?
• What qualities, talents and value can I bring to the platform?
• How can I do these things in the most authentic way?
• What are my intentions for my business/cause/group outside this platform and how can I introduce it here?

You could write down the answers to these questions and use them when posting content and engaging in communities, as a gauge to keep you on track with your daily intentions.

I’d also recommend, matching them up with your long term intentions. Does you intentions here correlate with your life/lifestyle you desire?

If you are someone that may not be part of a community, group, niche, or have no message, cause or business, It's a clean slate for you, spend time here on the platform and I'm sure it will spark some new inspirations.

I hope this helps. I really truly believe, having our intentions set, we'll gain more clarity and direction here on this platform.

Over to you, do you think setting intentions here is an important aspect or what has been your experience?

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