I got lucky and managed to achieve dolphin status (barely, I think 5K is the threshold if I'm not mistaken) pretty quickly because I poured money into STEEM and powered most of it up when it was near a dollar last fall. I continue to trade most of my SBD to STEEM then to SP about once a week once my payouts have added up.
I'd like to be at 10K SP by the middle of the year. It's an aggressive goal but so was my goal for account value for end of 2017 and that worked out quite nicely...Probably the best investment I've ever made as there's the price increase since fall 2017 and the dividends I've gotten through curation and SP delegation.
It is nice to see a slow balancing of the system. We still have a ways to go as the whale voting circles still exist and a high level of self voting is still there by many who hold a lot of steem power. The trend is good though. Thanks for sharing your insights.
I wouldn't call you lucky.
Many like to think a person is lucky when taking advantage of STEEM at a certain price. You still have to pull the trigger and buy. I recall a lot of posts how "lucky" the Whales were being able to buy STEEM for 6 cents. Yet these same people were not buying STEEM when it went from $1.40 to $.80.
And now those same people are complaining about how "lucky" people were to buy STEEM at $.80.
Buying SP is a great way to enhance one's account. My view is it will be much tougher in the future since the price of STEEM will be higher (heck it already is).
One of the best decisions you have made, I think!
And a brave one.
A goal has to be aggresive otherwise it has no use!
It would be like doing the limbo with bar set up to such a height that you can walk under it!