I truly believe

that we can manifest anything in our lives

with the power of positive thinking.

The outpouring of love and support from my online family has been extraordinary and you are all responsible for keeping my spirits up. Over the weekend I've never felt my confidence wane. In fact, I got busy really working on the things that I want to do - for love and money.

Look at the new Steemit avatar I made for myself!



Visit Cartoonify to get your own. I added the Steemit logo and my username in Photoshop.

I love it

It's being used as my profile picture on Twitter and also has a prominent place on my website.

Acknowledgments

When I wrote "And just like that..." I was so dumbfounded by what had just transpired in my life that I sincerely didn't know what to do with myself.

Thunderstruck would be a great word to describe it. So I reached out and this is what I got.

Looking beyond the dollar sign of this post

I was most touched by the nearly 3:1 ratio of views to comments!

The outpouring of love and positive reinforcement has really kept me out of depression's grip and given me the moral support to formulate a plan - at least for my near future.

I want to acknowledge all 369 viewers and participants in 117 comments. There really are too many to list in a single post but I appreciate every single one of you - from new reader to "old" Steemit friend.

The Strange Dream

So last night I had a dream about standing in front of

a huge cage with otters chattering and running around being adorable.

I remember laughing because I felt like I was in the cartoon where

I used my finger to plug a hole in the dam

as yet another leak pops out of nowhere.

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Well that was me trying to corral a whole bunch of mischievous, happy fur babies. Just as I was returning one to the cage another was escaping as I laughed and played this game over and over again.

Are there any dream interpreters out there?

What I'm doing

Over the weekend I spent two solid days getting caught up on a lot of Steemit blogs, responding with comments. Let's just say that was my down time.

I've been diligently overhauling my personal website to incorporate my personal and professional portfolio to relaunch my freelancing business. It's going to include some of my Steemit articles in a centralized location for some helpful tips in blogging.

I recorded two soon-to-be released podcast episodes with a good friend of mine. They're in post production right now. More details on that in a future post

Also been storyboarding a vlog that I'll be launching on YouTube by this weekend.

But the one thing I haven't done until this very moment is write a Steemit blog post!

An experiment in progress

One of the things that I've been adamant about is creating posts at



But with the unexpected loss of my job, I'm going to begin claiming 50/50 rewards as an experiment to see what I can potentially earn.

I have no intention of powering down. Frankly, I would only power down if I had to decide between food or hunger. I'm not to that point.

If I'm going to spend any more significant time on Steemit, I'd be foolish not to consider it as part of my online earning portfolio. So, while I have applications out and wait for interviews, I need to track and see how realistic this is for supplemental income.

So, I have a question for you...

When you set goals do you shoot for the moon and hope you land among the stars or do you shoot for the minimum goal and anything more is bonus?