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Living life without a target most times leads to failed results, procrastination and an unbalanced life. If you want to raise a million naira in two months and you don't have a plan, it's more like going to an eatery without money. Setting goals and targets helps ward off procrastination as a content writer; it makes one active and focused on hitting his or her target and also exposes the person to a lot of things in the course of making such an achievement.

Having a layout plan is necessary when setting targets. You need to be very much aware of your limitations and strengths. Can I do this? Is it possible to achieve this in a space of two months? Am I doing something feasible, or should I start small? Am I doing this to impress and please others, or am I doing this to impress myself and improve my abilities in certain areas? This is the June challenge I want to take up. On a weekly basis, I'll be giving myself challenges and targets to meet up at the end of the week.

I'll then publish a report at the end of the week to know my progress, challenges and achievement levels. This is the month of June. I've not done something as serious as this before, except for the Steem Power Challenge held years back. It was more like a competition where we would be challenged to hit 2k SP in a month. The winner gets a reward for hard work. If you're challenged to do something of this nature, there's a 10% probability that you'd be inactive in the course of your writing.

What's this week's challenge?

This week's challenge has already started, and it's unfortunate I'm starting the challenge today when the week is ending in 2 days. Is it possible to make 100 meaningful comments in 2 days? Let's see how it goes. What's the aim of using this particular challenge? My aim is to increase my engagement level on the platform, not just for visibility but for improvement. I barely comment on an average of 5 posts daily, which doesn't show I'm interacting with other users on the platform.

Restrictions

• Don't comment on a plagiarised post.

• Read and make meaningful comments of more than 4 lines.

• Avoid being overly sarcastic or judgemental when making comments.

• Avoid unnecessary appraisal when it's not worth it. Share suggestions respectfully.

• Don't rush to comment to meet your target. Read the post and offer recommendations if necessary.

• Don't limit your comments to a particular country or community.

These are certain restrictions to my challenge this week. It's a comment contest, so to speak. Next week will have something different, which I won't tell you until then. The essence of doing this challenge is to work on myself. The joy of every content creator or writer is to allow what he's doing to pass through him and also pass through what he's doing. How do I plan on hitting this target when I've not even made 50 comments on a weekly basis before?

• Set priorities. This is my priority, and I must ensure I work on it first because allowing distractions to step in. When you prioritise your activities, it would be possible for you to achieve a common goal.

• I can start off by commenting on the first 10 posts in the morning when I'm awake. I'd give myself a 3-hour break and make it 20 and then complete it by making it 50 comments for the day [20 more comments]. This requires hard work on my part, though. It's more like curating posts when handling the community curators account. You have limits.

• Having achieved 50 meaningful comments, I can choose to split the remaining 50 for two days, 25:25, since the challenge is ending on the 7th and today is the 5th. Or I can do 25:25, then 50 comments on the last day.

• I'd also employ questionnaire mechanisms where I'll ask users a few questions on what they created.

Working based on time so as to create other content and not just limit myself to comments is necessary. Let's see if I can achieve this feat in 2 days. I've been looking forward to such a time when my name would appear in the Male Noise project. To those who would love to join this challenge with me, can indicate their interest in the comment section.

Most times you need to motivate yourself without waiting for others to push you or set a reward mechanism before you leap.

30 Days Challenge with @bossj23. Next week, another challenge will be posted, and this one will be.......

Creating content without editing it for a period of 1 week. Sounds challenging, right? Let's go.....🔥🔥🔥🔥