Help from Hive!
I was trying to help a student who needed extra attention and he started to avoid me. The only time I saw him was whenever I'm teaching his class.
"Bring your personal study notes for me to inspect at lunchtime," I would say to him, but guess what, he never showed up. I thought of ways to help him, and I stumbled on something two weeks ago when I was responding to 
I love to write, that is a fact. Ordinarily that will mean that I write a lot, or I write on a daily basis, right? No, that will be a wrong assumption. I love to write but before now, I wrote only once in a while; whenever I get hit by poetry inspiration or when I wanted to write letters to myself, friends or family. But here I was writing at least one reflective piece every week because there is a prompt, and there are incentives.
For the love of stained glass windows
The prompts on hive are like an accountability partner. You know that friend or colleague who checks up on you to make sure you're doing your tasks, motivates you when you're feeling lazy or giving up, and giving you a big cheer when you complete your tasks? That's hive for me, Hive-Reachout especially.
I should write often because that's the only way I can express things that are really not mainstream ideas. But again, I can't just pick up a pen and write. The mood has to be set, an hive sets this mood for me via prompts. So I can say that hive has really helped me to be consistent in writing and to write with a purpose. Most times when I write posts here, I tend to continue in that spirit and open my other drafts and write more.
Beside writing, I also do some goofy stuff
Beyond writing, I've also worked on a dead habit here. On mainstream social media platforms (toxic twitter, spamming Facebook), I lost the ability to read long post due to the banality of topics, and irrelevant stories on there. While it didn't significantly impact my ability to read books, it impeded me from engaging with friends online. Posts on hive are different, hence I read the once that appear on my feed, hoping to learn a two, and I did learn things, more than one, more than two.
Just a picture
Now, not only did hive motivate me to write through prompts, it has also helped me to help my student. Now, I give him specific exercises with a time-frame to ensure that he has a goal in sight. Whenever he completes an exercise, I give him a big cheer.
