I believe you should make smaller targets and use it like a game. For me is the uploading of pictures somehow relaxing like eg. Sudoko.
You can focus on high quality pictures or only on special places, maybe the gamification effect comes back than later. I only do it when trying to relax and this works quite good. Or you check if the batches are already collected…
Of course no one have an answer to your question, but everyone of us have a personal feeling about being a Local Guide.
Myself, I don’t fight for reaching extreme performance. I enjoy contributing, with edits, photos and review because I found it helpful for me, being a Map user, and for others, that can be helped by my edits.
Having fun is more important for me than competing but, again, this is simply my thought.
Why not to use your experience, as a Local Guide and an SVTP, to give indications to the younger LGs?
This is a great achievement and I certainly cannot put it better than @ErmesT and @TorM .
I can throw in a little friendly tease though:
You are still some points away from reaching level 10 This may be something to look forward to.
By the way I will quickly re-label this post to Local Stories. The Travel section we use to discuss travel and ask questions around travel destinations.