Did you recognize the quote from the title of the post? If you are one of the "old-school" people, the movie from which that quote is is probably one of your Top 3 movies of all time... Actually, according to IMDB Top 250, it is the best movie EVER!
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I will not keep you in the dark anymore, the movie in question is The Shawshank Redemption and I have watched it today for X time (probably over 7-8 😃)... Anyways, my intention wasn't to create some "bombastic" title, as I'm not quitting crypto or anything similar... My breaking point is far, far, far away for that... lol...
Every Man has his Breaking Point
Quote by Ellis “Red” Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
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Yesterday, I read an interesting, short post by 
How crazy sounds that? I still remember the time when I put my first earned money in the bank and got a 10% APR on top of that... After a year or two, it went down to 8%... then 7%... and until the point where we had a situation where banks charge negative interest rates... Does that remind you of something?
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The first thing that comes to my mind is that story about "cooking the frog"... Where you put a frog in water and slowly raise the water temperature... It's nice and cozy for it, and the frog doesn't get until the end that it will be cooked... Well, the same happened with banks... We have allowed them to COOK US!
Now, how the heck did I connect banks and frogs with The Shawshank Redemption quote? :) I truly believe in that quote that every man has his breaking point, but that also can be applied to people in general... Charging negative interest rates is insolence, and paying 0 interest also... Especially in the situation, we have at the moment... There is no country in the world where inflation is under 10% (real numbers... not rigged ones...)... That means that your money is worth less every next day that you get up from bed...
If you think that "they" think about you, and that it's easy to return the inflation to 2-3%, you are very, very wrong... Yes, wages will go up, but they will NEVER go faster than inflation, and you will be screwed, and poorer... Until one point... Until the breaking point when the majority of the people will realize that banks aren't your "saviors" and there is a time to make a change...
At that moment, it will be too late to make some money in crypto as everyone will do it... Your mother, grandfather... and banks... There will be some breadcrumbs, but not for everyone...
So, the time is NOW! Accumulate crypto, and pick carefully tokens that have a future, that can survive harsh times... After that, it's time to enjoy the wind in your hair, like Andy in the GIF below...
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Let's get back to the #MyHiveGoals and numbers for the last week... I would like to accumulate these tokens faster, but I suppose that that also has its limits... 😀
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I have mentioned in my #HivePUD post that I have noticed that the ORCA rank minimum isn't 54K Hive Power as it was at the beginning of the year, but rather 55K, so I have changed that number in my yearly goals table that you can find below... As it was the 1st of the month, I powered up my regular 1K HIVE, but also added more during the week... So, all in all, my Hive Power is bigger for 1400 HIVE than last week!
LEO Power goal is going smoothly forward... When I restarted my content creation, my LEO tokens began to accumulate faster... As I have some "spillover" from the last month, after just a couple of days in September, I'm already close to hitting my monthly goal!
When I created the yearly goal for the WORKERBEE and BEE tokens, I thought that it will be a boring goal as these tokens are "just" miners and mining tokens... But, they are a lot more than just that as almost every week, something happens around them... :) This week, I have added another 50 WORKERBEE tokens to my stake and that goal is progressing nicely...
The news was regarding the BEE tokens... If you had liquidity in the most popular diesel pools on Hive-Engine, you have probably noticed that your APR went down a lot (in some cases to zero)... That happened because the BEE rewards have expired and new rewards weren't added to the pools...
In some way, that could be good news for BEE token holders as there is no additional minting of BEE tokens! But, on the other side, BEE rewards were some kind of additional incentive for people to provide liquidity... Without that, there is a possibility that people will remove liquidity and sell their BEE bags, which could push the price down even further... What scenario will happen, we will see in the next few days...
GAMING GOALS
I have blended some cards in the RISING STAR game, so my number of NFTs didn't go up as usual... I have added 92 of them in the last 7 days...
The last goal for this report is the SPS tokens goal from Splinterlands... As I have already reached the goal, I said to myself that I will not add more tokens to my stake and I have even unstake some... But, the unstaking period last 4 weeks (or more, not sure about it) and I earn more (staked) tokens from battles during the week than my unstaking amount... So, the number of staked tokens is still going up! 😃
It's time to update the numbers and put them into the spreadsheet until the next week! So, freshly updated numbers for #MyHIVEGoals, on August 28th, 2022 are:
Join us in this awesome #MyHiveGoals and let's grow together! You can find the original post about the challenge by 
Thank you for your time,
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The link to my initial 2022 Goals Edition is here...
These are my initial goals for 2022 created on January 2nd, 2022:
Update 06.02.2022.
BEE POWER 2500 --> 3500
RISING STAR NFTs 5555 --> 6000
Update 04.09.2022.
HIVE POWER 54000 --> 55000 (ORCA rank minimum went up)
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