Greetings, Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!

I hope this final week of 2022 has been treating you well, and that you got all the holiday treats and goodies you were hoping for!

New Year... New Plan?

As we draw closer to the new year and many people are "making plans," I am taking a moment to reflect on the fact that plan is only as good as your intention to follow it. To be a bit more specific, a plan is only as good as your dedication to following it.

We're nearing the end of the year, and for many of us that means taking stock of the year that was and setting some sort of goals for the year ahead.

Typically, we are pretty good about understanding the numbers, but have you considered the psychology of your goals?

Are you going to be realistic with your planning? Are you going to be ambitious with it? Are you going to be hopeful with it? Will you include contingencies, and be ready to pivot if things suddenly change?

My experience has been that many good plans are abandoned because they are based on things consistently going well to a certain degree, and if things instead go poorly, people tend to become discouraged and suddenly their dedication to following their plans go out the window.

Perhaps they just start dabbling in what they're doing rather than determinedly driving forward, derailed by a setback.

Then we arrive at the end of the year and people end up disappointed because of course they got nowhere near as far as they had hoped to be when they made their plans at the first of the year.

Some might even go so far as to say "well I'm no good at planning," but is that really true? Or is a more accurate assessment that you became too easily discouraged by setbacks?

Personally, I like to set very realistic and attainable goals that definitely include getting something done, but also includes lots of time to take naps.

Because, after all, I am a cat and we like to take lots of naps!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great remainder of 2022!

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Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communties!

If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?

These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Remember, you can also "cross-post" your cat posts to them!

HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!

Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!

Caturday Community by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!

Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS! It has a lot of subscribers but is not very active.

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community; it's there, but not very active.

Last, but certainly not least, a special shoutout to the Hive Pets Community which has become quite active and typically has quite a bit of cat content!

There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!

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