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Recently I read a post by @ph1102. #myhivegoals. It was a good post. For others it may not have been an earth-shattering or spectacular post (sorry - not downing it), but for me it was those things. Somehow the universe placed it before my eyes at just the right time and place.

I have seen #myhivegoals posts before and have basically thought "How nice. They have goals.". For whatever reason though, this post struck a chord with me. I don't know if it was the writing (probably) or circumstance, but I just couldn't shake the feeling that I needed to make some Hive Goals!

You see, I hate goals. I have always hated goals. Never liked them. My entire life. Hate them. Looked down upon people that made them. Goals entail comittment...

I have no idea why this might be, but I do not like structure imposed upon me (from outside or from within). Maybe some deep-seated authority issues from childhood. Probably not, I don't know. It is what it is.

For some reason, reading this post hit me like a ton of bricks. It was like a sudden realization. "Steemstreems. All the things that suck in your life are because you're a stubborn old goat who won't plan or make goals!"

Well. I'm not quite sure if that is completely true, but it seems to be somewhat true, and I have reached a point in my life that I am open to trying something new.

Don't get me wrong. I actually do pretty well compared to others in many aspects of my life. The is the problem. I am not satisfied. I know I could be more. I know I could be better than I am.

This is exactly the case with Hive. I actually do "OK" by chaotically bumbling along, but I see all these people with goals and think "Baaaahhh!! I could do better than that!!"

The reality is I could.

The reality is I don't!!

Because I have no plans. No goals. No targets. No direction.

Well today I am going to take some first steps to changing that situation.

Will it work out? Who knows, but I have been trying it "my" way for a long, long time and am not in a satisfactory place for myself.

In the comments of that post, I had a short exchange and told @ph1102 that I was going to make some goals by September 1. Here is me doing that :-)

I am sure that these are not gonna be the greatest ever, but it is a start. I am sure that I won't be happy with this post, but I am gonna post it :-)

I am also gonna work on refining and fleshing out these goals every week for the next several months at least. See where it goes.

Here goes!

Numbers in BOLD ITALIC are 10 year goals. They are moonshots. Possibly not realistic. I reserve the right to change them over the coming weeks :-)

The others are "1 year" goals to be reached by the end of 2023. Gonna give myself an extra 4 months :-) I tried to be more realistic with those.

These are all general goals. Over the coming weeks, I will attempt to get them into a better format (spreadsheet or table) and add some specific weekly goal targets. I just want to get started while the inertia was there and put it out there.

Hive

In general, I want to increase my engagement. More blog posting. More meaningful comments. More curation. All of that more consistently.

Posts

*10 year - 1,000 1 year - 100 Lifetime total so far (~ 4 years): 155 (what HiveBuzz says -- Hmmmm...) Goal for this week: 2

This category is gonna be tough for me. Blogging is not my forte.

Comments

*10 year - 20,000 1 year - 2,000 Lifetime total so far (~ 4 years): 1681 Goal for this week: 20

20 is probably a little low, but we'll start there and make sure I am not over estimating my ability to consistently comment.

Upvotes

*10 year - 40,000 1 year - 4,000 Lifetime total so far (~ 4 years): 14,801 Goal for this week: 50

This goal may also be on the low side. If it is, I will quickly ramp it.

Now on to Hive token goals.

HIVE

*10 year - 20,000 1 year - 2,000 Current Balance: 213.938 Goal for this week: 1 additional

This is a low goal that I will quickly ramp up as I go. I may also add large amounts from other investments as they come available.

I expect to comfortably be able to average around 20/week once I get things rolling. Will also probably increase my 10 year goal by the end of this year.

HBD

*10 year - 1,000 1 year - 100 Current Balance: 4.623 (in savings) Goal for this week: 1 additional

I am not particularly interested in HBD. It does have a nice interest right now though. Will keep this goal low and focus on HP as much as possible.

LeoFinance

This is where I want to get really aggressive. It is my favorite community and the one that I feel has the best outlook in the Hive universe. Most of the scarce blogging that I might do will likely be there.

I already have a nice large stake there and in its' satellite projects (Cub Finance and PolyCub). I already engage with this community and use its' products.

That said, I would like to do more.

LP

*10 year - 500,000 1 year - 100,000 Current Balance: 44,949.82 Goal for this week: 200 additional

I have purposely set this a little high to focus myself :-)

LEOMM

*10 year - 2200 1 year - 2200 Current Balance: 2192.03 Goal for this week: Place a bid on the market for 1 LEOMM

My main goal here is to hold what I've got for now and long-term. Just gonna try and get to 2200 for OCD reasons :-)

LEOM

*10 year - 65 1 year - 65 Current Balance: 64.14 Goal for this week: Place a bid on the market for 1 LEOM

Like LEOMM, I really just want to hold.

ClickTrackProfit

A while back, I started in ClickTrackProfit, but moved away. I am really interested in the community and it's initiatives. Plan to restart ClickTrackProfit and begin Listnerds.

CTP

*10 years - 30,000 1 year - 300 Current Balance: 30.28 Goal for this week: 4 additional

Think this may be a bit more than I can do, but once again I would like to force focus.

CTPM

*10 years - 1,000 1 year - 100 Current Balance: 0 Goal for this week: Place a bid on the market for some CTPM

This one hurts. I used to have many and sold them cheap. Guess I am gonna have to pony up to get some back :-) They told me, but I wouldn't listen. Gonna work on this one slowly at first.

CTPSB

*10 years - 100 1 year - 10 Current Balance: 0 Goal for this week: Research in expectation of starting buys.

STEMGeeks

This is one of the other communities that I have always had an interest in, but never really engaged. I will begin to test the waters and see if I can find ways to engage and add value there.

STEM

*10 years - 3,000 1 year - 300 Current Balance: 10.29 Goal for this week: 1 additional

Will just begin slowly buying this one and increase my engagement there for building my token count.

STEMM

*10 years - 200 1 year - 60 Current Balance: 0 Goal for this week: Place a bid on the market

PSYBER-X

I am heavily into this token. Will not aggressively add more of this one just yet, but will slowly increase. Once the game comes out I will likely work on further ways to increase my stack!

LVL

*10 years - 10,000,000 1 year - 5,000,000 Current Balance: 3,830,404 Goal for this week: 25,000 additional

As I expected, I am not quite satisfied with these goals yet. I will be refining and clarifying in the coming weeks. Thanks to any one who read all or most of this. You're a saint!

I am not sure yet, but will likely try to do this weekly and shoot for Sundays. If I can do it that means the next one will be in a few days and be a short "week". Pressures on!!

Oh. One more thing. When going down the #myhivegoals rabbit-hole I found the first blog by @robwillmann. #myhivegoals

He mentioned posting it on CTPtalk. I don't usually post there, but it is one of the communities in which I am interested.

A lot of participants in #myhivegoals seem to be CTP members, so I am gonna post from that front-end. Kind of my first step in getting re-involved in their community.

See everyone in a few days! :-)