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I once listened to an audiobook from the sadly departed life and sales coach, Zig Ziglar and one thing he always emphasised was that one needed to create goals to achieve anything.
I don't necessarily believe in this endless goal chasing philosophy, but goals can help to achieve certain targets, especially if the steps are broken down small enough and micro-managed.
Anyway, I've been on-chain since 10th November 2017 and have been very hit and miss in posting and flitted in and out. I've also taken Hive out and with my main @nathen007 account am sitting on 840.359 HP. Currently, I have 48.959HBD in savings.
As for Hive engine tokens. I have to be honest and say the massive majority of these are worthless crap. Leo however, I have just begun collecting again and currently sit on 101.265 Leo.
With LEO tokens, I'm not sure I still see a use case or value with the expansion into other chains and issuing of Cub and PolyCub but despite my misgivings, there is a huge and growing userbase on Leo Finance and so are possibly worth collecting.
I decided to create goals now as I am entering a current status of relative financial stability due to almost completing my house and so I feel a more rigid approach to saving on Hive can be considered.
There is also an ego thing going on. I decided I wanted to reach Dolphin status and this is going to require hard work and discipline, especially in my fixed time scales to which I'll come to in a minute! Hard work and discipline, not my favourite words in the dictionary! We will put the Dolphin status aside for a while, I think.
So for the goals. By my 5th Anniversary on the 17th Nov 2022:-
I will have 2500HP and 2500 Leo
That at first looks like a big ask, so let me break it down and try and explain how I will attempt to achieve this.
So from today until 17/11/2022 is 199 days.
I need 1659.641 Hive to make the HP up to 2500 and so that means 1659.641/199 =
8.34 Hive Per Day I think that's quite achievable
As for the LEO...
I need 2399.735 LEO to make it up to 2500 and so that means 2399.735/199 =
12.06 LEO Per Day Again, quite achievable I think.
As for the HBD, I am not setting any goals as I may use it at some point for liquid funds or to help me achieve the main goals if I begin to struggle. There is also a lot of arbitrage opportunity if the price of Hive continues to waver above and below the $1 mark. Let's not get too blinkered by the huge 20% APR on HBD Savings.
I will be checking daily, but measuring exactly once a week to keep an eye on my progress.
So I know what I want to achieve and have the daily requirements in place, how do I go about executing this?
The main way of course is to keep blogging with as much effort as possible and trying to add value to the blockchain. In return, I will hopefully receive upvotes which can be added to my totals.
Another way is to sell other odd tokens I pick up along the way and turn them into Hive or Leo and earning a little from curating and delegating to the big curators. Earning from playing games here is another option. Seemingly, it's also not a cool thing to talk about, I know everyone says that games are for playing primarily but even so...when there's a quid to be made!
I am also going to send all earnings from this and my @leedsunited alt to my @nathen007 account.
A bonus I hope to see will be a new found discipline to do things consistently. as unlike Zig, I truly believe that CONSISTENCY is the key to all success, perhaps with a little help from Zig!
So when I post again next Monday, we need to see 898.739HP and 185.685 Leo!
Thanks for reading, and don't forget;
Life's not about the hustle. It's all about the humanity