I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 5 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In my 2 years, 6 months, and 2 weeks on Hive I've come to learn a great deal about how to succeed and grow on this incredible Blockchain. This has required commitment, dedication, determination, consistency, tenacity, persistence, perserverence, and patience, along with the ability to explore, experiment, tinker, refine, and adapt to Hive's ever-changing landscape of opportunities. It's still one of the best investments that I've ever made.

I always do my best to give useful information to newcomers, to help them to get the lay of the land, and to learn how to flow and thrive here, because their success is my success. I've written various guides and tutorials, and I also share helpful things that I've learned in these daily posts, and in my Hive Goals and Progress Updates. With that in mind, today I had the idea to share an outline, or formula, for how I've come to the place that I am now on Hive.

Front Side - Most Visible Components

1.) Consistently Writing Posts that Give Value to the Community

2.) Solid and Consistent Engagement on Own Posts and Those of Others

Back Side - Asset Leveraging and My Hive Multi-Stream Passive-Income Machine

3.) High Priority on Growing Hive Power and HBD in Savings in Layer 1

4.) Delegation of Hive Power and Layer-2 Tokens to Community Curation Accounts

5.) Growing Holding and Stake of Dependable and Reliable Income Tokens

6.) Adding and Growing Token-Pair Assets in Select Diesel/Liquidity Pools with Daily Rewards

7.) Create and Grow a Persistent Layer-2 Token Trading Fund

I tried to make the titles and numbered items self-explanatory as possible, so that it's clearly understood to what I'm referring. This is framework or formula that I've updated, refined, and followed, for most of my time Hive, and that I've personally found to be exceedingly beneficial for solid and consistent, ever-accelerating, growth over time.

Even with the always-changing challenges, and other good sovereignty-driven blockchains rising, Hive is still the best Blockchain for investing, with the most opportunities, and the most long-term viability of the ecosystem as a whole, and as such, for the investments within it. And that's even before Hive becomes 'a thing'. Just wait until its real value is more widely seen and appreciated.

I left the Flow House yesterday, Friday, a little after 2:30PM, focusing first on straining out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, and then taking photos for this post. In between those two tasks, I ran into Iolanthe (Ano and Meleka's 11-year-old daughter) when I was down at Tutu's, who wanted to help me take photos. Mind you, when I say 'helping', I mean that she commandeered my phone and took a great many photos over the course of about an hour. She has a good eye for shots, so she ended up taking quite a few excellent photos. I couldn't use all of them, but all the photos in this post today were taken by Io yesterday. There will be several in tomorrow's post too. When photo-taking was finished, we stopped off at Shiva-Shakti for some kitten time with Hazel's new kittens. Sapir, who just returned from two weeks on the mainland, was there when we arrived, already loving on the precious little fuzzballs. I hung out there with Io, Sapir, and Hazel and her sweet kittens, until sunset. I was planning on getting some land work done, but that was sidelined a bit to hang out with Io, Sapir, and kitties, which feels like a good trade off, though I do still have work to do, of course.

After bidding my farewells to everyone, I went to the Landing to make myself some food, then I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening round of Hive tasks and catching up on notifications. I was able to get everything on Hive done by just before 10:30PM, and after some token management, and scanning my X feed, I went to bed by 11:30PM. I didn't sleep great, unfortunately, waking up around 8:30AM, doing a round of token management, starting on this post, going through the photos that Io took, and then getting out of bed just before 9:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee.

It's now just past 1:30PM, so it's an excellent time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, then leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain out and blend kefir, and then land work. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until tomorrow! Forward, onward, and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart, reignite my heart sun, and embody a solid, healthy masculine, allowing my electric fire to shine bright, no matter what others, especially women, say or do. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness. 

3.) Do regular (naked) integral practices again, alone or with others. 

4.) Dance regularly again.

5.) Work with natural entheogens (mushrooms, ganja, ayahuasca), with punctuated regularity, as a part of my healing process again. 

 6.) Get, and keep, regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions for women flowing again.

7.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

8.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again.

9.) Live as an integral part of a juicy heart-resonant soul tribe community, with deep, coherent mutual and shared passion, purpose, mission, love, warmth care, sweetness, reverence, respect, aliveness, admiration, excitement, enjoyment, playfulness, work, fun, laughter, attraction, and all-level connections and relationships. 

10.) Make love with the woman, or the women, that I love, every day, as a sacred devotional practice. 

11.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon. 

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

If you'd like to send me a BTC Lighting Tip (made possible by the fantastic work of brianoflondon on @v4vapp), just scan the QR image below. 👇

Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.