Lowering my unrealistic #SaturdaySavers goal from 5565HP to 2500HP
Sunday, 25th of June 2023 [16]
Back at the beginning of this year I was very keen and very optimistic while setting my 2023 goals. I only had about 2 months worth of Hive experience and I totally overestimated my possible growth. Hive price at the time of calculating my goal was also much lower than it currently is, so accumulations seemed much easier.
We're almost at half a year mark and from this point I can clearly see that was being unrealistic, while setting my goal to 5565 HP to get that Dolphins badge by the end of the year. Since January, when I wrote this post, my Hive stake grew from 300 HP to 1200 HP today, which is 900 HP in almost 6 months.
Nice surprise which I'm sure I mentioned before is that this alt with mainly #Actifit reports now has a life of its own and I managed to collect additional 236 HP on this account, making it a total of 1436 HP for both accounts.
No matter how I calculate though, 1136 HP of total growth is still not even half way to my unrealistic goal of 5565 HP and being half way through my yearly Hive journey is a good time to re-evaluate my goals.
New goal 2500 HP
My new goal for the end of 2023 will therefore be 2500 HP on my main account only. That's an extra 1300 HP ahead of me and should still be challenging enough, comparing to 900 HP growth in 1st part of the year.
Sure, I could push myself more and post more, but with everything going on in real life I find it tricky to do so regularly. Looking at my unachievable goal only discourages me rather than motivating. Lowering it down to one that I am capable of achieving with a little push is therefore necessary.
The beautiful thing about Hive though is that once you start the ball rolling, it never stops. I setup an auto-vote for a few of my trusted authors and now even on the days when I don't feel like interacting with humans, my voting power never sits at 100% and therefore curation rewards never stop and as my HP grows, so do my curation rewards.
SO even though I am lowering my goal, I don't feel sad about it. Sooner or later I will get that Dolphins badge, as long as I continue showing up. Being realistic about the new goal will hopefully also make it more pleasant for me.
Now, let's have a look at my progress since 13th of May when I last posted my #SaturdaySavers report. We are now in Week 25 savers!
Total 5565 HP and Dolphins badge - reduced to 2500 HP
That part I already talked about extensively, so let me just clarify that the new goal is for my main account - fantagira only and I will not be adding this alt's HP to my total. I'll still track the progress of it, cause I like to see the numbers grow.
Totals for last report:
| fantagira | fantagira7 |
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Totals today:
| fantagira | fantagira7 |
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In 6 weeks since the last report, I accumulated 253 HP on my main and 78 HP on my alt. A total of 331 HP growth in 6 weeks. I'm happy with that :)
Hopefully at some point I will get into a habit of posting these report on a weekly basis. That would be great!
365 days HBD savings
This goal has been on pause for quite a while now. As with HP I wanted to do too many things at once I guess. I still throw a HBD or two into my savings account, but HP and LP accumulation are my primary goals.
There is 20.42 HBD in my savings today, so it looks like I added around 5 HBD since last time, when I had 15.477 HBD.
365 days GBP savings
My 365 days goal in my local currency is doing well. Today's saving should be at £155.76 and my total cash savings are much more than that, but I really need to move it to a separate Saturday Savers dedicated box, or else these savings will get eaten when it comes to pay for my fence repairs.
2023 LP and Newborn Cub status
My Leo goal was in danger this month. My total LP last time I reported was 662.3 LP. I added to lots of 150+ Leo at both LPUDS for the total of 982 LP, but the last one was a huge stretch.
Leo price in hive has increased from around 0.08 Hive to 0.28 Hive on the day of June's LPUD. I still had 90+ Leo's missing for the minimum of 150 Leo to power up on LPUD and I didn't like the idea of spending 25 Hive to buy the missing amount.
Luckily @ifarmgirl-leo came to my rescue and lent me 41 Leo which was still missing after I bit my teeth and purchased 50 Leo. The total increase since last report is therefore 320 LP, which makes my goal on track, but I do need to make more effort to earn Leo tokens organically, so I don't need to buy big amounts at every LPUD.
5k delegation that I won by participating in June's #LPUD will sure help this month, but I do need to make #threading my daily habit for the months to come.
Goals summary including L2 tokens
And finally let's have a look at my overall table for today.
| TOKEN NAME | 2023 GOAL | Current STAKE | TO GO | Increase since last reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hive Power | 2500 | 1203 | 1298 | 253 |
| Hive Power alt | - | 236 | - | 78 |
| Leo Power | 2023 | 982.0 | 1041 | 320 + 25 Leo |
| HBD | 668 | 20.42 | 657.58 | 5.05 |
| GBP | 668 | 155 | 513 | 85 |
| ALIVE | 1000 | 914 | 86 | 145 |
| ALIVEM | 10 | 0.191 | 9.809 | none |
| EDSMM | 10 | 12.000 | completed | 1.0 |
| BBH | 10000 | 1059.000 | 8941 | 11.000 |
| EDS | ? | 3.56 | n/a | 0.54 |
| LOH | ? | 110.8 | n/a | 104.4 |
| POB | ? | 821 | n/a | 181 |
| SBI | ? | 15 Units | n/a | 5 units |
My #ALIVE stash increased by 145 AP since last report, which still makes it possible for me to reach my 2023 goal of 1k AlivePower in the first half of this year. I did some trading of ALIVE tokens and that helped me to increase my stash faster. Just 86 to go and 5 more days till the end of first half of this year :)
I managed to get one extra EDSMM token for voting in the Author of the week poll on #threads and by commenting on SaturdaySavers post that I did.
Bear in mind that you need to be registered for Saturday savers club in order to be able to win EDSMM for your vote.
My #POB stake although no goal was set, also increased nicely by 181 since last report. I decided not to set a goal for it, but I'll be tracking the progress nonetheless.
My LOH tokens were increased by over 100, making it now possible for me to use LADY tipping command. This is thanks to a lovely lady that I mentioned above, who helped me with my Leo goal.
I removed a few lines from my table this month, as tracking tiny amounts became a bit too cumbersome. I added a goal of 10 000 BBH instead, as I read from @bradleyarrow that apart from weekly swap.hive drips, there will also be Leo drips for those holding 10K BBH or more. Every little Leo helps ;)
That will be it for today!
Happy Saturday and the weekend savers 💙
My previous savings/goals articles:
My Leo goals progress in February
Until next time 💙
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Never ever lower you goals. Goals are not meant to be reached. They are to aim for. If you lower your goals you will never to as good as you could of. Put your goal back. Who cares if you hit it.
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The goal to achieve Dolphins is still there, just not in 2023. Setting time limit on it to be done by the end of the year made it feel like a chore to post regularly and took the fun out of it. I think I work better without a huge pressure ;)
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My 365 saving was on paused too😂.
I find it hard to cope up.
Half way through the year is a great time to re-evaluate your goals.
Well done for working out what is right for you and enjoying your time - Excellent! 😍
The good thing about setting goals is that it keeps us going. I can understand your reason why you adjusted your numbers to stay motivated. I'm cheering on ya, sis!😍 You can do it💪
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Yeah, it felt discouraging to have my goal so high. I just wasn’t very realistic while setting it. I had only just started on Hive then and Hive was much lower too.
Some people work better with high targets, but for me it felt like a chore to post and I went the opposite way 🤷🏻♀️
Thanks for stopping by sis 💙
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That's okay sis. At least you are intentional about working it out, hence you putting out your new targets. All the best ❤️
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Goals should be hard to get, otherwise they would not be goals. My HP and LP I should lower too, but I won't, it is still something to strive for.
In saying that, my view of HP being the holy grail has totally changed.
For me I am more interested in my HBD savings and token bags. HP is great and all that, and helps me delegate but it is not the bee and end all that I once thought it was!
Keep turning up Monika and you will keep getting progress.
... I removed a few lines from my table this month, as tracking tiny amounts became a bit too cumbersome. I added a goal of 10 000 BBH instead, as I read from @bradleyarrow that apart from weekly swap.hive drips, there will also be Leo drips for those holding 10K BBH or more. Every little Leo helps ;)
Thank you for that, last year I used to track the tipping tokens but was too much trouble.
Bradley has been around for years and I saw him years before I saw him on Hive. Thanks for the reminder about BBH it goes below the radar and I don't really know why. I too shall put it on my to buy list!
Have a great week Monika, you are going great 💙
I just went to check BBH price and saw that you already bought 10k! Awesome 🤩 I’ll probably do the same this week.
How do you know Bradley before hive?
I know some people work better when they set their goals high, but for me it works the opposite. I get discouraged that I can never achieve them and post less.
I remember the last 2 months of last year and my first months here were super fun and my growth was great and once I set all the goals it was like a trap and hive become a chore rather than fun place to be and interact. I really wanna go back to having fun.
The 5565hp goal was to get to Dolphins asap, but really, I’ll get there sooner or later and if it’s later, I’m ok with it.
Also, like you said, I want to explore other opportunities. HP curation rewards are cool and they keep coming, but surely there are other ways of achieving higher APR than this.
L2 tokens, games and such.
Why HBD though Eddie? I like the 20% APR, but I’m torn between stashing HP while Hive is at good price and HBD savings with juicy APR.
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I think we were all very optimistic about our goals this year in our Savers Fam, hehe.
You have inspired me to update mine. I was tired of always reporting how far I am from achieving my goals. I don't agree that you shouldn't lower your goals. Goals have to be challenging but not impossible to achieve. Good for you and Good Luck!
You are doing great. 900 HP in 6 months, especially when you are still pretty new, is wonderful! Much faster than I did. :)
I'm the same, if a goal is hard-but-possible, it's motivating. But if you look at it like "there is no way," it's demotivating. So I totally understand your decision!
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! help(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoYou got me! Hopefully this revised goal will make it easier for me to achieve it.
And thank you for your kind words. I thought my progress was quite slow in comparison, but hey, it’s progress nonetheless 😁
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It's about what I've done for this last 6 months, only I've been here a lot longer and have higher HP to start - and that does make it easier, because you start to accumulate more curation rewards with higher HP - so you're definitely moving faster than I did when I was new!
That’s reassuring to know. I will continue at it and force myself when laziness strikes 😁 I’m happy to at least get regular with Actifit reports. I post almost daily and I’m super happy with this ☺️
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Nice update - resetting your annual goal makes sense, but you have still done great ! And its nice to see growth across nearly all of your targets since the last update.
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Thank you so much my friend ☺️ I do keep going, more often on this alt account than my main, as I find writing Actifit reports easier, but I try and add something on the main at least once a week.
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Reassessing and reevaluating goals, and then shifting them when necessary, is a very good periodic practice to help keep us moving in a beneficial direction. Congratulations on the progress that you've made on your goals so far, and on two account! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Thank you so much ☺️
Yes, I’ve been struggling with this unrealistic goal for a while. I was super keep to grow very fast here on hive, but that high goal made me feel pressured and it wasn’t fun anymore, so I hope lowering it will take the pressure off and I can enjoy it rather than making it feel like work.
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You're most welcome, absolutely! I very much understand that! It's easy to turn Hive into a job, and forget to enjoy it. I've had moments of clarity about Hive like that too. Regardless of its potential, we still need to enjoy our time here! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Very true my friend, very true 💙
I've been finding the balance between relaxation and ambition on Hive...😂 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
It’s a delicate one to find. I’m trying to find it too ☺️💙
Oh my goodness yes, that is for sure! It seems to change day to day, too! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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Hi Monika,
I'm pretty new to the Saturday Savers Club (I "joined" a couple of minutes ago) and I set my HP goal to exactly the same number. 2500 HP should be possible. Hive is still relatively cheap, so I would buy it on the market without getting broke, if I can't get there organically.
Very nice article and it takes courage to introspect honestly and reset one's own goals. Respect.
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There's nothing wrong with revising a goal to a realistic, achievable level. You're still doing really well, and sometimes taking a bit of pressure off (especially when real life is crazy) actually helps you get better results.
Also, if there's one thing I've learned about Hive it's that it is unpredictable. Just last week, I spent ages on what I thought was a really good post and it only got a few cents worth of upvotes, and then I did a really quick post and it did really well. If you add in the compounding effect that your ever-growing stash gets you, I think you'll be pleased with how it's gone at the end of the year 😀