It’s been 3 days into the new year and if I don’t do this now, I’m afraid I never will.
I joined Hive 6 months ago with a very bad note and with some very crazy and unrealistic expectations which I’m sure everyone that read my intro post will agree with.
In the course of the 6 months I’ve been here, reality dawned on me and I started getting realistic. This wasn’t the get rich quick scheme I was looking for. It’s better!
Under the newbies initiative, I set not just goals, but specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound goals. I reckoned just setting goals wouldn’t be enough, but subjecting my goals to scrutiny under these parameters will go a long way to ensure that they’re attainable. And I talked about reaching most of them in my post here
With the the newbies initiative equipped me with, I have some targets I wish to hit next year with regards to Hive. If things work well, I might even set life goals for next year. Not a promise to myself though, but we’ll see.
I didn’t join Hive with any goals because I didn’t even know what was going on here or that there’d be a community I’d love so much I’d want to stay with long term. But now I do, and I want to build with the community. For 2023, here are some of my Hive plans.
Consistency and Engagement(Posting and Commenting)
I honestly have no idea what my consistency on Hive is going to look like for next year because I recently just started a National Service job and I have absolutely no clue what my life is going to like working next year. This is because I’ve only worked for a month and it was mostly just conducting exam for one class, but if I’m being honest, it wasn’t easy. So I can’t even begin to fathom what it’ll look like when the entire University campus is back and I have to handle lectures and lab practicals, marking assignments and lab practical scripts, taking students for cadaver practicals, and everything else the job description entails that I don’t know yet. It’s going to be one hell of a year for me next year.
Regardless, my life mantra has always been never to shy away from a challenge, and a challenge is exactly what my next year will look like.
Against the odds of whatever I might be facing, I plan to post at least 4 days every week. This gives me at least one day rest between each post to handle whatever issues I have going on in real life. I don’t like setting myself up for challenges I know I can’t take because I’m a realist and I know what is possible and within the realm of reach and what is not. So with regards to posting, this is my plan.
As for commenting and engagement, I’m going to be doing that everyday. I’ll never be too busy to comment and engagement even if it’s only a bit. The problem with posting itself is that I need time to think to write posts. Good posts anyways. If I wanted, I could write posts everyday but they’d just end up being shitty. And I don’t want to have anything like that on my blog because it’d be a punishment and torture to everyone reading me.
Hive Power
I started this year with exactly 800HP(cool coincidence btw), so it basically took me 6 months (half a year) to accumulate 800HP and we’re in a bear market. I don’t anticipate this bear lasting through out 2023 so that means there’d be less cheap HIVE to grab. In light of these and other reasons, my HP goal for 2023 is to hit 2,500HP by the end of year. I have 857HP already from powering up 50HP for HPUD and some post HP payout.
I have some financial situations I’m dealing with right now so there’s that to consider, and I’m also trying to stack up as much LGN as I can, as I build my HP. My interest in Legion ultimately leads back to building my stake because rewards earned from holding LGN will either be reinvested into acquiring more LGN or into increasing my stake.
Like I said, I’m trying to set realistic and achievable goals. So combining all the factors I already mentioned above, this stats seem to be the way to go. A look at my HP growth over the course of my journey so far reveals not so bad track record.
Reputation
Reputation is an unpredictable thing. My reputation goals for the newbies initiative was to have a 64 rep by the end of the initiative and even though I wasn’t able to hit this on the head, I landed at 63.4 or something around there so it wasn’t too bad.
It took me 6 months to hit 64 rep and knowing that earning reputation gets like 10x harder as you go helps me be realistic with my target fir reputation. At the end of this year, I wish to have a 68 rep. This will require I post more often and be more active, and like I already said, I have plans of doing those.
Genuine Following
You probably already understood everything I’m going to say here once you saw the word “genuine”.
Most people are so focused on growing their following but forget that not everyone that follows you is actually really interested in your works or supports it. I have an over 100 following, but in a way, you could say I have only a genuine following of about 20 people give or take. These are people who are really interested in the stuff I post and take some time once a while to engage with it. These are the type of followers I want to grow more of.
Even you and I will admit that we’ve followed some people because of one excellent post we saw sometime on their blog but never checked their posts afterwards. It happens. Some people followed us for the same reason. The important thing moving forward is to be conscious of who we follow and ensure that before we follow someone, they really fit into the class you want to be seeing more posts from. That you scan their blog thoroughly and give a follow only if you like at least majority of their stuff, or are interested in something they regularly post. This will help cut down on the excessive numbers.
Anyways at the end of this year, I want to grow a real following of about 30 people. No big numbers as I want to be as realistic as I can. 30 is a very small number for an entire year, but seeing that I want to build real relationships, each one of them will take time.
There’s still so much to cover but considering that this post is already long enough, I’m going to have to make a part 2 to it. Sorry about the terribly long post, and thanks for reading.
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