Good Morning Hive! Time for a New Buzz!

It's been a sloth few weeks for me! I've been in somewhat of a rut, so this morning, I hit the 5 am club again! Time to give me a shake and find my lost buzz!

The first thing I decided to do was a quick clean-up of my friends list here on Hive, and removed a few accounts that I haven't seen posting or interacting. I also stopped following a couple of community accounts and then realised I was close to '69' members (well, actually 169) so thought I would trim a little more to reach that, we all like funny numbers right?

Sorry if I accidentally culled anyone important! Give me a nudge if you're still here reading this!

One of my main issues is trying to fit all the tasks into a day, I've been lacking engagement with other posts whilst trying to at the very least do one daily post.

That sounds like an easy enough task, especially when a lot of my posts recently have been drivel! However, I'm also trying to run a community, whilst working with other communities to further their position on Hive. Probably one of my main time sinks is Discord, I'm in too many rooms, chasing too many chats, and losing the majority of my productivity. Sometimes these chats get too intense and I end up focusing only on those! Which sacrifices a lot of the real stuff I could be doing.

So I'm challenging myself to be more Hive involved, commenting on posts, engaging with users and making Hive a better place overall! My next task for this morning is doing a discord cull, might strip things back to the very basics with only a few channels, and get my focus where it needs to be!

It's easy to find ourselves overwhelmed, especially if we don't help ourselves. My daily routine has gone out the window, my motivation is at an all-time low. I find myself doing the same wasteful things day in and day out. Spending hours watching youtube videos (although mostly 'educational' or 'hot topic' videos) sucks up too much of my day. Heck, I even spent many hours over the last few weeks watching AoE2 streamers...the game is almost older than me, and I can't play it on Mac, so I'm not entirely sure how I ended up stuck watching them!

I've even fallen into the trap of watching youtube shorts and Snapchat videos recently! Something I've never really done before! What has become of Sloth! Procrastination to a max! So, time to give me a shake and spend my time being more productive again! Managed to hit the 5 am club this morning, and got myself started on the right foot!

I know I have a few RL activities to take care of today so online time will be limited but I plan on making the most of it! Spreading some love on Hive. (Why 25% votes you ask? Because it's the minimum I can do whilst still receiving a tiny amount of earnings as curation rewards, and it doesn't waste too much power so I can vote on more content!)

Engaging with others has always been a struggle for me, I can read a long post with lots of great points to interact with but sometimes just can't find the words ' great post' just doesn't feel genuine, even if meant seriously. 'Thanks for sharing', what does that even mean? I'm sure I'll get into my stride eventually! lack of confidence? Anxiety? ADHD? Mental Helth? Who knows what the issue is? All I know is I need to start doing better! And that starts now! (As long as my internet plays ball! This is one of the major issues I need to overcome, although, the 5 am club tends to give me a few hours of great internet before the masses wake up and steal all the signal! Maybe I should become a night owl!)

Well for now, I'm going to plan out the rest of my day, get the ball rolling on other tasks I've been avoiding and try to be a buzzing sloth for a change! Thanks for stopping by! Until next time,

All memes from imgflip with my own text, sometimes a meme can say 1000 words!

Sloth out!