I haven't been powering up an awful lot lately, if I'm honest. I had been keeping a fair bit in savings for that lovely APR and for quick access if needed, as we had a lot of expenses coming up (and still may do). I've been content with the amount of Hive I had powered up because I didn't have the psychological energy you push my goals further. It's been nice to focus just on interactions and writing. However, I'm feeling rather reinvigorated again, and inspired by the power uppers and goal setters and go getters to reassess my HP goals!

Today I powered up 150 HP because I want the cute buzzy badge, and would have done the lot but I like some there to give as challenge winnings for the #gardenjournal challenge. I would like to reach 20,000 effective HP by the end of Winter here although with the price the way it is the post rewards aren't quite as good as they were, but never mind, they'll go up again! Us old timers know that - so if you're worried and thinking of leaving HIVE, please don't - we assure you it's happeened before and it WILL go up again!

Effective HP 17,605.58 HP
Hive Power 21,618 HP
Received Delegation 209.48 HP
Sent Delegation 4,221.9 HP

By the time I wrote this post it was 2 July in Australia, so it's not really joining in with all the other PUD posts. I'm not eligible for the Hive Pud prize give my rep, but you should go pop over to @traciyork's profile to keep up with that. Any time you enter a HIVE challenge you stand to win a little to boost your HP - as they say, you gotta be in it to win it! I wonder what the equivalent means in the global languages of HIVE. Anyway, this is a good time to state my goal of continuing to join in challenges (did I mention the #gardenjournal challenge?) like @galenkp's Weekend Engagement challenge, @theinkwell writing challenge, @ladiesofhive and lots more. It doesn't even matter if I win - that's not really what it's about for me - but it is important that I do my bit to help these communities be a great place to hang out and hopefully retain users as well.

My own personal goals on HIVE are usually quite simple and I dont spent a lot of time tracking my earnings. I am, however, on on track to post every day for a year - think I started in Feb? Loving it, loving my HIVE!

I'm going to try Hive PUM (Power up Month) run by @hivebuzz via @arcange as well. There's a cute little calender to keep track but as long as I remember to power up every night before bed I should hit the power up lunchtime UTC consistantly. Powering up a little bit every day for a whole month feels good. Every little helps, right?