Three months: That's how long it took from the time Antti Pajunen was nominated for the Business Applications MVP award until he received it.

"I was nominated in July of this year and I received the award on October 1," says Pajunen, a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement consultant at Finland-based Innofactor. "The process was surprisingly quick. I've heard that for some people, the process has taken six or 10 months and a lot don't get awarded at all."

Although he thought that being an MVP would be "really cool" and a great achievement someday, Pajunen wasn't aiming for the award.

"I've had and still have that mentality that if you aim to be an MVP and if that's your only goal, you probably won't get it or you might be doing it for the wrong reason," he says.

Pajunen says he just wanted to write his blogs to educate others and especially to educate himself.