Funny how we make plans and say we're not going to do this or that and we're going to change how we do things. I made this statement when I first started my goals this year;
It's all about getting to where I want to be. I need to do more of what it takes to build my tokens to where I want them & the plan is to earn most of them.

I'm having fun & really enjoying my times when I on Hive.

These are statements I made in earlier goal posts and while for the most pat they do ring true, I found myself down in the dumps with Hive.

It wasn't really so much Hive that made me feel that way. it was some personal issues & than with all I want to do & all I was doing, being on Hive seemed to have lost some of the fun. So while most of what I want hasn't changed much, how I'm getting there has.

See I started to feel like I was going to a 9-5 everyday except there were very little boundaries on time. I never clocked in & I never clocked out, it just all seemed to run together, one task after another. There was no end.

So since I want a lot from hive, it's supposed to be fun to me & not like I took on another job. It took all I had just to mustard up the interest to do my goals & a few other posts that I managed to do lately. The answer to this is to Refocus and make it fun again, & just happen to earn while doing it.

The Nitty Gritty

Let's take a look at the real reason you came to this post. Since I haven't reported on my goals in quite some time there are some changes for some tokens.

INCOME TOKENS

These tokens I consider the most important tokens since they produce more of other tokens and sometimes Hive. Because I need Hive to buy other tokens my main focus will be on building those tokens that pay me Hive. These are first on my Income goals.

TIPPING TOKENS

I love tipping tokens because most of the time my vote has no value or very little when it does, even less than you get from a tipping token. So as a way to show appreciation for their post or comment I like to add a tip so they get something from me.
I actually took the time to go thru & add a little to my balances, I would like to get each token to the highest level for each so that I can tip everything I comment & respond to.

MINER TOKENS

Miner tokens are good to have as away to earn the regular token. I consider the miner token an income token since they produce more of the standard token.

This is another area where I took the time to invest a little.

Rewards Tokens

These tokens are at the foremost of my portfolio, alongside income tokens. One of things about these tokens is that they are more than your average token. Some are multi-functional & have valid use case history & there’s a few that have piqued my interest & I want to support them. Of course this could change in the future but I'll deal with that when it happens.

DELEGATIONS

I have a few delegations and would like to give more. Delegations is another great way to earn crypto. When you delegate you get dividends usually in the form of the token your delegating to. Sometimes you get Hive, and sometimes you may get another token. It all depends on the token provider, they usually have a post on what they pay or you can always go to the community on discord & ask questions.

My List Is Growing!

This week I learned of some other those tokens can be delegated and will be increasing my delegations to do just that as well as increase some of those I already have. This will reflect in my next goals report.

SATURDAY SAVERS CLUB

This is one of the things that I kept going even when I was feeling down. I know it was the sense of saving in any way was not as much a task as everything else so I was delighted to keep my savings up, I just didn't post about much until this week & now it's all caught up.
This has been a good initiative I joined last August. It helped me to save toward specific tokens as well as earn tokens. This club is a part of the SPInvest project & is a good way to get you to hodl & save your crypto while earning from them. View My Latest Post Here!!

POWER UP EVERY MONTH HIVE, PIZZA, & LEO

This is the other thing I didn't skip out on. Powering Hive up every month is something I've been doing for a little more than a year now, in September, 2022 I started powering up Leo and then followed that the next month by powering up PIZZA. Powering up is a way to grow your power in these tokens or any token. I have seen my LEO power triple since I started participating in the LPUD, which has made my LEO earnings increase. I don't power up these tokens until 'Power Up Day' arrives. This way I don't have to buy as much when PUD arrives.

Since Last Report HivePUD, I did power up 50 Hive to meet my monthly goal.
You can check out my HivePUD post here.

My Goals For 2023

These are my main goals for me to focus on. This List is a little bigger than usual but it represents what I want and need to get to before my crypto will work for me as hard as I work for it. I realize that these goals may not be fully achieved this year, but this is what I have to work for. I'm sure it will be just like in past years where I complete some goals & unfortunately some goals fall a little short. But the whole point of having goals is to know where you're headed & to help keep you on track to get there.

OTHER PLANS

There are so many things to be a part of on Hive that you can easily take on too much, this has happened to me over the years & once again just recently! Whenever something new/new token hit the market I had to get involved. Now that has overwhelmed me & I began to let things slip through the cracks. Things I didn't want to let go of but I was trying to be a part of too much. So in light of that, I now have to clean up my mess & get back to reality which is I can't do it all. Also, I have to remember there are still things to come.
Funny how I seem to still be letting things slip through the cracks. I'm still trying to do too much, and it has overwhelmed me once again. I slacked off but am slowly returning to my activities just to keep it fun. I don't want it feeling like work and that's what happened so now when I feel that way, I may only do what feels like fun or do nothing at all that day. If I'm not having fun with Hive, I'm not doing it. I'm retired & if I can't sit down to my computer & feel enjoyment than I don't need it!

UNWANTED TOKENS

What do you do with something you don't want? Simply put, you get rid of it. My plan was to sell all the tokens that come into my wallet that I have no interest in, but I found other ways around that with some of them. There are tons of them just sitting there & most of them have no value, no use case & a topic I want no part of.
I have managed to unload some of these. In the process I found that a couple of them (like APE) drops into my wallet because of my holdings in income tokens like INDEX, so I will probably move the to my rewards list of undecided tokens.
**I also found that some of these tokens could be delegated so I did that. I also unstaked all that were staked so I can sell them.

WRITE THOUGHTS & IDEAS MORE IN JOURNAL

I used to use a journal to write down my thoughts & ideas, but lately I haven't been doing that as much. All the pieces of note paper or a index cards are everywhere, no organisation. My journals are any notebook I have handy. This week I've been using my journal & it stays open on my desk.
I keep my notebook right on my desk open & in front of my
computer. This has been very useful, it almost makes me pick up the pen as soon as I have a thought or see something I want to keep or post about. No more scraps of paper or index cards with my notes all over the place.
I guess you could say this is done, but the thing is to keep it going for the rest of the year.

Still Working!!

FULLY DISOLVE OF SPLINTERLANDS – (SEND TO RYAN) Been halted...

While this is high on my list and although I want to disolve the game, I find that it's not that simple. Although I don't play anymore, it plays a part in my portfolio & income on Hive. I do have cards that I rent and need to find a way to replace what I get from them before I can let it go completely.

I'll be sending them to my grandson, Ryan. I got him on Hive and into the game in 2021 when I spent half the year in Pennyslvainia where he lives. Besides, he understands it better than I do.
Now he's got a new cell phone and I have started sending him the cards. I have also delegated him some HP & RC, I sent him some HBD to cover the cost of his spellbook, so he's pretty much set.

He's not as into it as I thought he would be, but I think he just need to understand the value of rewards he's getting by playing & being on Hive.

GET RID OF OTHER GAMES I’M NO LONGER INTERESTED IN

Like DCITY, CRYPTO-BREWMASTER, & a few others, keeping only those that I have actually had the time to play. I also need games that have a type of set-n-forget thing, where I can do some actions and return later to collect & set up again, kinda like Rising Star. Cleaning out games I've been sitting on cause there's no time or no space on my Chromebook that I play my games on. Also I have to make room for upcoming games like ChifiBots.

Done very little here Dcity has changed so much I have to learn how to use it just to dissolve it. I would like to sell off all my holdings. Any tips for doing that would be welcomed. I have games I signed in to but never did anything so I just ignore them, will probably delete them when I get the time.

I have 3 games I'm joining but not sure if they're right for me but how will I know if I don't try. (CraftInk, MuTerra, Mech Arena, & Cryptocompany CEO.

BUILD MY RAVEN POSITION

Raven is a muscian that I have been following and she has a token & often give gifts to her token holders. She is growing and she's doing it right here on Hive. I like to build my holdings of her tokens to about 100 tokens. 

I got some more tokens, still not at next level, but I'm getting there!

GET BACK INTO CUB LIFE & SPI

These initiatives I got into way back when and are 2 of the things that fell through the cracks. They have been producing very small earnings for me ever since. I had much to learn about them so they ended up being smothered by all the newer stuff. A while back, I took the time to invest a little in CL as before & I seen my CL holdings double, so why not get back to it, now is the perfect time. SPI drops a little Hive in my wallet once a week just for holding it, so why shouldn't I increase my holdings in SPI. 

Working at it!

GET BACK TO CTP & LISTNERDS

As I got involved with other things, I let ListNerds fall through the cracks, going to the site once or twice a week instead of daily. It didn't help that the program did some upgrading & in the process I saw my earnings go from the thousands to 100-200 a week, and less if I did almost nothing. I still rave about ListNerds, just not as loud as I once did. 
CTP - this is what bought me to Hive & helped me get to where I am today. It was the teachings of @jongolson, @elianaicgomes, & @blainjones that helped to stucture me and keep me up to date on anything crypto in their vessels. They have created several vehicles on Hive that has also helped my growth. They continue to build on the blockchain & make programs that only helps to increase my earnings, all I have to do is use them. One day I'll introduce you to the programs of CTP.

I haven't been as diligent as I should be, but do make time to get there about twice a week. Still not mailing though.

MY SERIES

Last year as a way to produce content, I developed some series to write/update on a regular basis so that I know that I had a few valuable pices of content to present you with. I need to work on these series on a more consistent basis, @ least 2 post per month for each series. I also have one I metioned last year but never started it. Still haven't gotten to all of them.

TOKENS IN MY WALLET - Latest post. New one coming soon.

MY HIVE GOALS – I try Biweekly but haven't been on top of things lately. A lot of changes to be made, trying to refocus things so they can continue to be fun instead of work & leaving me with feelings of being overwhelmed all the time.

Saturday Savers Club with @suie-saver - Latest Post

BLOGGING MY WAY – haven't returned to this yet.

MY JOURNAL TO YOU - haven't gotten this going yet.

Enough to overwhelm anyone!

But it's all about getting to where I want to be. My goals this year are a little different than usual & a result of seeing what's been happening over the past couple of years. These goals aren't just to say what tokens I plan to focus on but pretty much all of what I plan to do on Hive this year. The things I've been doing have been working but very slowly. I need to step up my game.

These last few things on the list, I haven't done anything with yet but will get to them eventually.

DESIEL POOLS

Learn more about Desiel Pools & what benefit they are to me & possibly start using them. I don't understand all the talk about liquidity, so that's what has me a little confused. I also don't understand what I get out of using desiel pools and how often I get it. It's the little things that has stopped me from doing this, I don't mind a little risk but I like to know what is required of me to do before I dive in. Like once I set it up, when do I return to check it & the possibilities around it.

**A while back, I read a post about this & I'm still confused. From a conversation in the comments, it sounded like something I'm really not interested in. However, before I rule it out I will attempt to try it when I feel as though I have the tokens to do it. Sometimes it's better to do something as well as read about it & that's how I work. Don't know when but one day.

AUREAL - PODCAST APP

Learn more about the app & how to use it. I'll be preparing myself for the 30 day challenge 'NaPodPoMo' (National Podcasting Posting Month) in Nov 2023. I attempted this last year but got caught up cause I didn't know how to use the app. After 3 days I gave up. I was also doing another 30 challenge at the same time & didn't have the time to learn something new. plus I was having computer issues, so that didn't help things any. 

This is fast approaching, but I still have a little time, not sure if I even want to do it anymore. I'll have to see what my feelings & stress levels are closer to time. A 30 day challenge is always a stressful time although I usually find it fun. It's the commitment that makes it stressful the the actual task.

WITNESS NODE

Another one of those things I don't understand but here it's a good thing to do & earn some Hive in the process. So one more thing to educate myself on. Besides, there is a cost involve and I have to know all the details of the cost and the money for starting & keeping it going for at least the first 6 months.

Another thing that sounds like a lot of work, not sure I'm up to this one & not sure if I'll ever do it.

DISCORD

Learn more about the use of discord. For personal use & for the preparation of my own community. I also need to clean up my discord & get rid of some of those groups I am no Longer interested in.

Need to do this for personal use as well. but I learn something new every time I visit.

TEAM FUTURE FAITH

This is my community! I have already created the community through PeakD over a year ago. I had lots of thoughts, ideas, & plans but found that there was so much to learn if I plannes on running a community. Plus I needed to get a few other people interested that would help me in building the community with task like curating & commenting. And I also needed to decide on what token I would reward with until I could get my own. More to come in the future!

I've been looking at some things & started to have second thoughts about running a community. I don't think I have the time that it takes to run a community. So I don't know if I will make this happen or not.

I have all kinds of thoughts going through my head on this. It's something I really want, but when I look at other communities & see all the work that goes in to it, I feel it's more work than I want to deal with in my retirement. If I could find the right people & build the right team to support me, I could see this happening but as for now, it's still on the sidelines.

Well another week or so gone in my very involved year on HIVE. I look forward to seeing you around and connecting with you!!

Thanks for hanging around through this long post.

You can always visit my profile on PeakD & check them all out.

30 Day Challenges That Helped Me Build Along The Way

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3StepsNoExcuses
This challenge was great because it helped me to build habits that helped me on my journey on Hive. Looking back on this reminded me of how lost I was when I came to Hive, not that I'm a pro now, but I believe I could now help others rather than always being the one to need help.

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