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' @roleerob and how is it going?"

Status or "Executive Summary"

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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Statistics

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?

Yes. But, not that much!

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 ...👎 👎

_{Source: Tim Cliff Post - SBD Explained}

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🎣 "Gone fishing ..." 😉

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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Engagement "Formula"

A steady work-in-progress, is attempting to maintain the following "rhythm" in the investment of my time:

1. Engaging "down" with all of the many great Steemians steadily adding value and working hard, who have a smaller stake and doing what I can to encourage them.
   
   
2. Engaging "up" and adding value, as much as I can manage, to the posts of those who may chose to ... uhhh ... increase my "influence" ... 😉 ... to help those in #1 ...
   
   
3. Adding value by writing my own posts, so #1 and #2 have some idea of why they would want to hopefully "engage" with me ...
   
   

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.

Awards and Accomplishments

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' @roleerob?" So ... Let's see about this past month ...

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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? 🤔

1. It was at the lowest price per BTC since August 2017, when I first began to invest in it. That helps bring my overall cost of ownership down.
2. I have some interest in all of the "tribes" on Steem Engine, although I have yet to decide which, if any, I might invest in further.

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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!

Closing

So, overall a very quiet month for @roleerob. I literally have nine different posts in the draft section of my account on SteemPeak. Maybe one of these days, I'll get some of them finished ...

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 @roleerob

Posted using SteemPeak and “immutably enshrined in the blockchain” on Thursday, 1 August 2019!

Interested to read more of my monthly updates on my Steem "journey"? Great!

• Update, Month 1: Engaged with a 4-Figure Stake in the Future
• Update, Month 2: Still Engaged with an Increased Stake and "Growing" ...
• Update, Month 3: Still (Somewhat) Engaged with an Increased Stake and "Recalibrating" ...
• Update, Month 5: Still Engaged with an Increased Stake and "Doubling Down" ... - Won @trufflepig's #1 "Truffle of the Day" award!
• Update, Month 6: "Fully" Engaged with Increased Stake and "Resolute" ... - Won @trufflepig's #1 "Truffle of the Day" award!
• Update, Month7: 🐬 Starting 2019 as a Dolphin! 🐬
• Update, Month 9: Safely Home and "Working" on the "Next Chapter"
• Update, Month 10: 🥛 Glass Half Full? Or Half Empty 🥛
• Update, Month 11: Bogged down "out there" ...
• Update, Month 12: 💥 Annual Highlights Edition! 💥
• Update, Month 13: Slow start to Year 2 ...

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