Enough to overwhelm anyone, but 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. While I will still buy from time to time , no more breakin the bank to get Hive just to buy other tokens. Most of the tokens on Hive can be earned & there are a few that have to be bought & that'swhere I would trade my hive that I buy at.

My goals this year are a little different then 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 has been working but very slowly. I need to step up my game, I'll be doing a lot more ccommenting & curating, and just a lot more all around. I now have a new computer (I got for Christmas), so I can now get back to other things I was trying to do at one point last year. I was becoming active in other communities, mostly in weekly contest that required me make some sort of post. These post along with my own posting goals connected me with others & helped me to acquire various tokens. It gave me new content to look at, comment on, & curate which of course increased my earnings as well as introduced me to new tokens.

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 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.

The last couple of months of last year I spent comtemplating on what I wanted/needed to do to get to where I want to be. I have been on the blockchain for 3 years and feel that I should be a little further than I am but the thing is it took time for me to learn what the blockchain & Hive is all about & how to use it. Now that I have more of a feel for what it is and how it works, I can see what needs to be done. I m still learning as there will always be something to educate myself about.

The Nitty Gritty

Let's take a look at the real reason you came to this post.

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 with my vote value at such a low amount sometimes, actually most of the time my vote has no value or very little when it does, even less then 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. Tipping tokens have their own rules and values so I want to be able to tip at the highest value & the most possible times so that I always have something to tip.

MINNER TOKENS

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

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.

I couldn't decide which chart I liked best so I post both. The first one is from my Hive wallet & the other from PeakD. I like that the Hive wallet shows the exact amount where as PeakD rounds it. I also like how they both show the timeline of when & how long it's been. So I'll probably make my own chart with the combined information. These are just Hive delegations, I also have a couple of other delegations in second layer tokens.

SATURDAY SAVERS CLUB

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. I will be doing my savings post on Sundays this year which is the day after @eddie-earner does the community post. So look for this banner to follow along & join in if you like.

POWER UP EVERY MONTH HIVE, PIZZA, & LEO

Powering Hive up every month is something I've been doing for a little more then a year now, then about 4 months ago I statrted 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 tripple 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 I need them.

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. Whenever something new was introduce or a new token hit the market I had to get involved. Now that has overwhelmed me & I began to let things slip through the cracks. Some things were things I didn't want to let go of but it got to the point I had to start picking & choosing what to do trying to be a part of it all. 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.

FULLY DISOLVE OF SPLINTERLANDS – SEND TO RYAN @ryansjr This is at the top of the list. last year, about mid-year, I decided to stop playing, This too time consuming & I was spending way too much time trying to figure out how the game worked anyway. I never had a real interest in these types of games. I do have some of my cards up for rent which is bringing me a nice piece of DEC. I also sold off some of my cards a while back to someone. Now I'll be sending them to my grandson, Ryan. I got him into the game & he understands it better than I do. I set him up on hive but the problem is he doesn't have a computer or cell phone to play on, he's omly 13 yrs old so I pretty much got him started & now I need to figure out a way to get him online so I can send him my cards. I also need to make sure that he can get a spellbook, but that shouldn't be too difficult.

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 & Rabona. 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.

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 right here on Hive. I like to build my holdings of her tokens to at least 100 tokens.

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 couple of months ago 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 Hive in my wallet once a week just for holding it, so why shouldn't I increase my holdings in SPI.

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.

WRITE THOUGHTS & IDEAS MORE IN JOURNAL I used to use a journal to write down my thoughts & ideas, but lately I havrn't been doing that as much. The crazy thing is when I did write something down, it was on a piece of note paper or a index card, this is okay because it still gets written down but the thing about it is you end up with all these loose papers & cards that get lost in the shuffle. My journals are not always designed as a journal, any notebook you use can be referred to as a journal. I need to get back to using mine instead of having all this disorganization going on.

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. I will elaborate more on these in my next post, as this one is long enough.

- BLOGGING MY WAY – AS OFTEN AS I CAN	 
- TOKENS ON MY RADAR – > TOKENS IN MY WALLET 
- MY HIVE GOALS – BIWEEKLY 
- Saturday Savers Club with @susie-saver 
- MY JOURNAL TO YOU 

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.

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.

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.

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.

TEAM FUTURE FAITH
This is my community! I have already created the community through PeakD over a year ago, March 2021 to be more precise. 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. When asking around about starting a community, I got a lot of negative responses which dampered my feelings, so things went side ways. More to come in the future!

UNWANTED TOKENS What do you do with something you don't want? Simply put, you get rid of it. I plan to sell of all the tokens that come into my wallet that I have no interest in. There are tons of them just sitting there & most of them have no value, no use case. & a topic I want no part of. Those that are worth less than one Hive I will set an offer and leave it til it sells or rise in value.

Well that about covers it, what my year will involve on HIVE. I look forward to seeing you around and responding to you.

Thanks for hanging around through this long post.