Those small investments over time can build and begin to have a snowball effect. I have pretty much powered up 90% of all Hive earned, by the end of the year I will have 10,000 HP or pretty close to that. I know people will say I got lucky, but the reality is powering up was the only consistent thing I did on Hive and steem, (except for commenting a lot).
I am at the point now where I am actively taking a little bit of that Hive and working on buying some ETH, LTC, and BNB tokens. Heck I even decided to get myself one DOGE coin.
It is very difficult to remain focused on goals with such a violently changing world of crypto and finances in general. We just have to put the tin foil hat on and fight through all FUD, FOMO and vaporware. If we keep chasing the next dream we never get to finish the dream that started it all.
RE: Preoccupied by little of value