Continuing to blog on all the fascinating aspects of my experience on our Steem blockchain, here is my fourteenth monthly update.
Since posting my introduction on 14 May 2019, these updates represent my "log" of sorts, giving my readers a monthly window into my "journey" through the Steemisphere - a new "virtual world" based on the creation of our Steem blockchain.
So ... "What are you doing 'in there' 
To begin, here is a brief overview to answer the "how is it going" question we should probably be "checking in" with ourselves and answering, from time to time.
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There is an old saying, "numbers don't lie." Yes, well, there is also an old joke about the executive asking the accountant, "what do the numbers say about how we're doing?" to which the accountant replied, "what do you want them to say?" ... 😉
Required to issue a monthly report for most of my career, with numbers to quantify progress, here are a few:
To date on my Steem "journey," these numbers are the most important. The first three quantify our influence on adding value to the Steem blockchain. And the second two, the actual work we are putting in to add value ourselves. Given all of our rich diversity, I trust we all have one focused objective in common - adding value to the Steem blockchain.
We want the value to go up!
How is that working for us? Well, you see here the market numbers, i.e. the "bottom line" of how our investment is doing. Down significantly over last month. Not good, but the market overall was also down, right?
For the third month in a row, I have been posting this "big picture" view of how STEEM is doing vs. the overall crypto market. We simply see the first month's result was not an aberration. STEEM lags the market. Full stop. Period.
This month we all lost about one-third of the value of our Steem investment ...👎 👎
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Let's see. Do I want to say I have lacked motivation over the last few weeks to spend much time investing into the Steem blockchain when there are considerably more profitable ways to invest my time elsewhere?
Or do I want to say I still have too many higher priority items "out there" in the real world to catch up on, before I get back to some sort of routine posting on the Steem blockchain?
Hmmm. Let me think about that, dear reader, and I'll get back to you ... 😉
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A steady work-in-progress, is attempting to maintain the following "rhythm" in the investment of my time:
I don't have my stopwatch out or anything. I just try to be mindful of switching from one to the other. Part of the "flow," as I have written about elsewhere, is naturally regulated by your decline in voting power.
In this section of my monthly update, I highlight anything which stood out to me in the way of an award or accomplishment. As much as anything, it's for my reference, when I look back over time and ask myself,
"Are you really accomplishing anything meaningful 'in there'
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Beyond crossing the 11,000 upvote threshold in support of my fellow Steemians last month, the biggest news in a very quiet month was my decision, in spite of what I have written above, to buy 500 more STEEM.
What! 😧 Why? 🤔
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Beyond that, I will skip my normal "Monthly Highlights" section, as I have not been active enough to capture anything significant for this month ... Maybe next month!
So, overall a very quiet month for
Thank you for reading my monthly update.
Until "next time," all the best to you for a better tomorrow, as we all work together to build up our Steem Communities and increase the value of the Steem blockchain! 👍 😊
Respectfully,
Steemian
Posted using SteemPeak and “immutably enshrined in the blockchain” on Thursday, 1 August 2019!
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