Progress Report - Mid December 2020

December 16^th, 2020

Mid Month Report - December 2020

This will be the last of the Mid Month Reports. For 2021 I will continue to track my progress but on a monthly basis only with end of Month Progress reports.

The first three months I did weekly reports primarily so I could track my power down from Steem and develop a weekly base line of activity.

I have enjoyed making these progress reports and I don't anticipate to much change in 2021 for the monthly reports. I still continue to feel my reports serve a couple of purposes:

The first one, and primary reason for doing them, is that it allows me to see where I have been, where I am going, and where I am falling short in my personal goals.
The second purpose they serve is to let people, new accounts and old, see an honest representation of an account built from scratch and not really knowing anything at all about cryptocurrency.

As far as engagement on my part for the beginning of December I fell a little bit short, (I was almost completely inactive on some days). So on with the charts and progress.

Monthly Charts and Tables

The Monthly Progress Report Table:

Despite a slow comment engagement couple of weeks, I still feel as if I made pretty good progress. I had two pretty nice payouts so that has helped the mid month report numbers, It may be a nice end of month report, if I can manage a few more pieces of content.

Remeber HBD-C is HBD converted to Hive at todays rate so I can have an apples and apples comparison. One day I hope to see the curation return to close to a 30% mark, but I do feel having it close to around 20% is a good point for me right now.

I think hitting that 8,000 mark is very possible for me by years end. July was when all the steem conversions were pretty much done, so all in all most of all earnings and growth since then has been on Hive activity only.

Engagement Charts and Tables:

![Engagement levels thru December 15th](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/4BCB0XTg-engagement20leves20thru20dec2015.png)Way off the mark of where I hoped and wanted to be, but I have been distracted by gaming and by learning, so I have not been spending as much time on Hive this past couple of weeks. I do hope to do a little bit better in the remaining two weeks.

Actually for me not doing to bad post wise, I hope to get at least another 4 post out by the end of the year and it would be great if I managed more and ended the year on a high post note.

As you can see the last four weeks have been on a slight downward trend, I hope to turn it around and try to become more stable in the 120 range of comments a week.

A clsoer view of comment activity:

Not a very good start to the month, I do read a lot of the post I vote on, probably about 80% of them, I used to be pretty good at leaving a comment on at least 50% of the post I read, so I need to start letting people know again that I do enjoy their post even if it is just short notes, although I prefer to make thorough comments.

And the year end goal:

I am not likely to make 900 comments in the next two weeks, I may get close to 400 but that is doubtful. So I'll end up somewhere between 700 and 500 comments short of my goal, which is fine, I should be at that number no later than Valentines day in 2021.

Conclusion and side notes:

271 days since March 20th and launch of Hive, just shy of 9 months. Winter Solstice will be on the 21^st for those of us in Alaska. Perhaps the stars will align and allow our new born to begin growing with the season as the days no longer grow dark but the sun begins it slow and steady rise to the peak of the summer zenith in 2021.

I hope everyone has a joyous holiday season and a merry Christmas to those that celebrate it.