I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #729 - Regardless of Distractions, I Am Focused and Determined - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, July 26, 2024

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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Maintaining my level of consistent and regular engagement and publication on Hive, especially over the long term, takes quite a lot of commitment, dedication, determination, and tenacity, basically unwavering focus, regardless of what is happening in my life on any particular day. Yesterday was one of those days in which I had many requests for my time and assistance (it's often that way living in an intentional community), on and off throughout the day, and as such getting what I needed to get done on Hive took an extra level of focus and determination. Through great will, I succeeded, very thankfully, though I did stay up later than I wanted to do it.

Something internally has always told me that Hive is important, and that I should give my all every day to building, growing, and saving here, and that's exactly what I've been doing for the vast majority of my time on the Blockchain. After having done so for almost 3 years now, I can say unequivocally and without hesitation that it has been very worth my time and effort. I just wish I had started sooner.

Successfully writing and publishing these posts daily has certainly not been easy, and there have been multiple times when I was almost certain that I would fail in getting them published on time (before 2PM my time). In the end, though, sometimes even at the very last minute, I've always succeeded, much to my utter astonishment and relief. Even though it's obviously not my preference, I'm cutting it a little close even today...

Even though I've said that I may not always be able to remain at this present level of activity and focus on Hive, I've still been able to do so up to this point, which is honestly pretty incredible. Will I be able to keep at it for the next 3 years? Good question, but I promise that I'll do my absolute best! Hive will always be a very important focus for me, even if I'm not able to publish a post every day at some point. On Wednesday (my time) it will be the last day of the month, and another round of HPUD (as well as my birthday) will make an appearance, and I'll be ready with close to 40 HIVE (all from passive income) to power up, as a demonstration of my belief in and my love for this glorious Blockchain, and I can't wait!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, around 1:30PM, straining out kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) first, as is usually the case. After kefir, hung out with Iolanthe for short a while, then got on to the rest of my tasks. Even before I left the Flow House yesterday officially, I left multiple times to help different people with various things, like making food for Iolanthe in Tutu's and helping Melekai carry three large pieces of metal roofing up to the Kuti. Because I was so busy helping other people, I didn't do much other land work. I mostly focused on getting ready to swap hard drives on my laptop (I have 3 hard drives with 3 separate installations of Arch Linux that I periodically swap out to keep them all up to date), which due to so much time passing since the last swap (several months), was not as simple or as quick as I had hoped. Because I needed to get that done, I returned to the Flow House early, as well as to get into my usual evening Hive tasks, and catching up on my notifications. Due to lots of notifications and dealing with some technical issues in my hard-drive swap, I wasn't able to get fully caught up on my notifications before making itself go to sleep just before 1:15AM, still 7 hours behind. I woke up first just before 7AM, still feeling like I needed more sleep, chasing chickens out of my planting beds, doing a round of token management, then going back to sleep until 9:30AM, starting on this post when I woke up again, then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee.

It's now very close to 2PM, so a bloody good time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain out and blend kefir, perhaps take more photos for these posts, and then land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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