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It's been over two and a half years since I registered on Hive blockchain (March 5, 2019) and Hive has quickly become a pleasant daily habit of mine:
- I like to read the content posted by other authors
- I like to interact with other users
- I like to participate in various initiatives and contests promoted by communities and other users
- I like to help those who are in difficulty and in fact those who have tried to contact me know that my door on Discord is always open especially for new users who may encounter some difficulty in taking their first steps on Hive ;)
- I like to support the various projects on Hive
- I like to play games based on blockchain developed and built on Hive
- I like to publish content related to projects that interest me and in which I have invested.
In recent months and thanks to the success of Splinterlands there have been many new signups on Hive.
Those who sign up for Hive through Splinterlands might think that Hive is just a decentralized infrastructure that allows Splinterlands to record game transactions.
Someone who signs up for Hive because they clicked on a link to a Hive post shared by me or other hivers on a traditional social network might think that Hive is just a decentralized blogging platform.
In reality Hive is not just one thing but many things at once!
Screenshot from the site: https://hive.io/
Hive is a DPOS blockchain on which "lives" a large ecosystem of dapp, communities and projects.
In the following image you can see just a very small part of the projects built on the Hive blockchain.
The most beautiful aspect of this great ecosystem present on Hive is its dynamism and its continuous expansion.
24 days ago I wrote a post in which I tried to show the many potentialities and usefulness of Hive and I showed the features of the site https://hiveprojects.io/ that is a good starting point to discover the ecosystem of Hive (link below).
24 days ago the https://hiveprojects.io/ website counted a total of 135 projects (apps, sites and tools) built by the Hive community
Today there are already 149 projects listed on https://hiveprojects.io/
Today a HIVE token is worth $1.05 (source and screenshots: https://coinmarketcap.com/it/currencies/hive-blockchain/)
Exactly one year ago (October 5, 2020) a HIVE token was worth $0.157
In one year the value of 1 HIVE has increased by +568.79%.
An excellent increase in value, but I still consider it an underestimated value for all that the Hive blockchain offers!
When I like a project, I also like to share my considerations and my goals on the project in question and today I want to share my personal journey towards the goals that I set several months ago and inherent to the Hive blockchain.
Every month I post a monthly report on my growth journey on Hive and I do this for two reasons:
- it helps me to self-motivate myself to achieve the goals I set
- it helps me promote and publicize Hive because I share my Hive posts on some traditional social networks.
My goals on Hive
Main Goal: 30000 Hive Power
Secondary Goals
- Engagement Goal (total number of comments): 15000
- Reputation Goal: 76
- Total Number of Posts Goal: 1300
- Followers Goal: 1000
Progress Status
Start from the main goal
Main Goal:
To be achieved by December 31, 2021.
To track my progress towards my goal I created a simple table with my spreadsheet in which I divided my main goal into smaller intermediate goals of monthly duration.
As you can see from the data in the table in the image below the intermediate target I had to reach in September was 2170.40 HIVE (fifth column in the table: Monthly Target to Reach).
My Wallet
(September 30, 2021)
On August 31, 2021 my Wallet had a value of 18281 HIVE (HIVE+HP+HBD).
On September 30, 2021 I took the screenshot of my Wallet at: https://peakd.com/@libertycrypto27/wallet and as you can see from the image below, 6 days ago my Wallet contained: 49.71 HIVE, 18390.86 HP and a total of 362.02 HBD (9,962+352,067).
If I add up all the values (HIVE+HP+HBD) I get a corresponding value in HIVE of 19027.31 HIVE (on September 30, 2021)
In one month the HIVE value of my wallet has increased by 746.32 HIVE which corresponds to a percentage increase of +4.08%.
The result I obtained in September is higher than the result of the month of June (+623.22 HIVE) but it is still much lower than the intermediate monthly target that I should have reached in order to reach my final goal.
I have updated the table with the September results and the amount of HIVE tokens I need to reach my final goal is 10972.68 HIVE.
In the month of October I should try to increase the value of my portfolio by 3657.56 HIVE to reach the monthly goal...
This is an impossible task but never say never, if some project that I follow or some token that I have in my wallet will acquire a lot of value I could always make a nice Power Up and with a stroke of the tail I could reach the goal of 30000 Hive Power.
Secondary Goals
Reaching 30000 Hive Power is my main goal but it is not the only goal I have set.
I have also set secondary goals that I would like to achieve.
Engagement goal (total number of comments): 15000
Out of all the goals, the goal related to the number of comments is the second goal I care most about.
The advice I always give to new users is to interact as much as possible on the Hive blockchain by commenting on the posts of other Hive authors who share their same interests or who publish useful and quality content.
It's always nice to receive a comment on a post and whoever comments has the opportunity to encourage the publishing activity of the author who follows and at the same time has the opportunity to confront with the ideas, thoughts and moments experienced by another person that may be very different from their own but that are an important moment of personal growth.
I've seen many authors complain and abandon Hive because no one was reading and commenting on their posts.
But almost always it was the complainers who didn't read and comment on other authors' posts because they didn't understand the importance of interaction.
Why, for example, would a reader prefer to read a post on Hive that talks about Bitcoin instead of reading a post on the same topic by a famous and important online newspaper? The answer is simple: for the interaction with the author of the post and for the atmosphere of sharing and collaboration that exists on Hive.
My comment-related goal is to write a total of 15000 comments by the end of 2021.
To date I have written a total of 11266 comments and my daily average is just over 12 comments per day.
To reach a total number of 15000 comments I have to write 3734 comments by the end of the year with an average of 41 comments per day.
To reach this goal I need to interact a lot more.
I love reading and commenting but I have one big obstacle: time.
Reputation Goal: 76
On Hive each account is associated with a numerical value called reputation.
Reputation is just one of the many elements that differentiates Hive from other centralized, traditional platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
On the centralized blogging platforms reputation is not there because it would be a counterproductive element for the owners of the platforms because the users are and must continue to be only source of sellable data to obtain wealth.
That's why controls on activities such as SPAM and plagiarism are soft and almost non-existent on Facebook and other centralized platform.
In a time frame of two months I increased my reputation by +0.39 points.
On July 31, 2021 my reputation was 73.54 points
On September 30, 2021 my reputation was 73.93 points
According to the information on the website: https://hivebuzz.me/ranking I am in the number 485 place in the reputation ranking of all users on Hive.
The value of the reputation of an account is not always a reliable value because in the past and before the birth of Hive was allowed to use bid-bots but I have never used bid-bots and for this reason I keep this value that provides an indication of my activity of publication and interaction on Hive.
Reaching a reputation of 76 will be virtually impossible but if I get close to 75 I will be satisfied.
Target Total Number of Posts: 1300
I set a goal for the number of posts I publish in order to self-motivate me to be consistent in the publication of content on Hive: to write a total of 1300 posts by December 31, 2021.
In September, I exceeded 1050 published posts and stopped at 1053.
To reach my goal I would have to publish 247 posts in three months with an average of 2.74 posts per day.
With my current work and family commitments I can hardly publish a post every day and then I think that this goal will be almost impossible to achieve because I do not have the ability to summarize and I often take too long writing a post...
Followers goal: 1000
On September 1 I had 762 followers, today I have 836 followers.
In the month of September I increased the number of followers by 74.
Screenshot from the site: https://peakd.com/@libertycrypto27
September: Considerations
The month of September was perhaps the month I posted the least since I've been on Hive.
I could have done more but I'm satisfied with the results I obtained especially if I consider the little time I had to dedicate to the activities I like to do and, reading posts, publishing content, commenting, interacting and playing games on Hive are all activities I like very much.
Compared to August, I have increased the total amount of rewards I have received as a result of my author activity.
- Total Author Rewards (HP): 528.26 HIVE (last month: 440.18 HIVE)
Curation rewards have decreased but this is a result that I expected because last month I received a delegation of 5000 HP for the duration of 25 days as a reward for my participation in a contest of the community of Olio di Balena.
- Total Curation Rewards (HP): 123.78 HIVE (last month: 169.5 HIVE)
Conclusion
I set all of the goals in this monthly report of mine 11 months ago (November 2020).
In all likelihood I will not reach any of the goals that I have set but my commitment will still be maximum in trying to at least get closer to my goals because I believe in the project of Hive and grow on Hive is one of my priorities.
In conclusion I want to thank all the people who follow me, who read and comment on my posts and all the people who support me because they have dedicated their time and contributed to the growth of my account.
A special thanks goes as always to @fedesox, the creator of the community of [Olio di Balena](https://peakd.com/c/hive-146620/created) of which I am a happy moderator, who supports me since I was a small and inexperienced user of Hive.
I would also like to thank the nice @discovery-it community who honored me by giving me the opportunity to become one of their curators.
Thanks also to the Leofinance community (https://leofinance.io/) and the Neoxian community (https://www.neoxian.city/) whose curators and members have often supported my posts.
Thanks also to @splinterlands who introduced me to the wonderful world of blockchain-based games.
Thank you all
What goals have you set for yourself on Hive?
If you like, you can write your goals in the comments and I will be happy to read them.</center>
If you haven't set yourself any goals, I suggest you do so because setting goals is the first step towards achieving them.
If you are not a Hive user you are missing a great opportunity to be part of an important project. On Hive you will not be just a simple user as on Facebook & Co. but you will be a part of Hive.
If you don't have a Hive account you can easily create one in a few steps.
I have written a short tutorial where I show you how to do it:
HIVE: Registration and First Login with PeakD
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