It looks like this summer (as many previous) has a strange, after-war battlefield effect... We need that vacation, we deserve it, but getting back is always a tough job... For some, it's too hard, as they don't come back at all!
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I will use my personal experience for this... Back in 2011 (I think), with my family, I went on vacation to Spain... At that moment, I was running a company (with 2 co-owners) for a couple of years, without taking a vacation longer than 3-4 days, and this one was around 3-4 weeks... A lot... Maybe too much... I have to be honest, before going on vacation, I was unhappy with my work; it didn't fulfill me anymore, and I was seeing only bad things...
So, when I came back from vacation, I entered my office and saw a pile of work that I had left before! That wasn't just my work, but everyone else's too... Nobody touched it, and it had to be done a long time ago... That was my "boiling point," which I couldn't cross... That day, I left my company forever... The next day, I organized a reunion with my "ex-partners" to discuss my resignation...
Recently, I saw many of my friends leaving for vacation, but they didn't come back to HIVE... And when I say friends, I mean people whom I communicated with here on the chain, but also, met IRL, drank coffee, and sat at the same table... I know people have different priorities, different views, different opinions... Some are more flexible, more tolerant, others aren't... Someone snaps in a day, others snap after a few years, some never...
The point is that we are all different, and we don't know how this "decentralization" thing works... We are experimenting, we are researching the unknown land, uncharted territories... And because of that, we should be a lot more open-minded than anyone else, and we should take care of each other, be more understanding...
It's not easy for sure... Maybe even more than ever, we are tested on those words by Victor Hugo, “The liberty of one citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen begins.” or the other one by Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Your rights end where my rights begin.”
I've got a bit distracted... Back to the #MyHiveGoals numbers... Another 2 months have passed, and it's a perfect time to check up on my Hive goals...
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The chart is still going up, which is fine... Tomorrow is the #HivePUD day, and I will try to make a bigger pump on this chart, but we will see how much HivePower!
Comparing with my last report from the end of June, I have added 3437 to my HivePower balance! That is a bit less than in the previous 2 months, mainly because of my laziness during the summer... I created fewer posts, earned less author rewards, and this is the result... On the other side, it's not all about post rewards, I did get some HIVE on the second layer by investing in certain tokens and taking some profits... That HIVE will soon be powered up and change this picture...
Speaking of taking profits, I did take some on other cryptocurrencies... I moved some of those profits to HIVE, and my staked HBD amount grew by 555 in the last 2 months! That's not a bad result, knowing that we still didn't have a proper "bull run" (the famous "banana zone"😃)...
Regarding my Hive Meetups goal, it moved up to 2! After the BuzzParty meetup in Graz, I have organized a small Hive meetup in Serbia during the summer... I'm not sure if I will attend another 3 meetups until the end of this year, but I will give my best to do so! HiveFest is very far away this year, and probably "out of the league" for me, but there is still a chance to do some Hive meetup(s) in Europe, and maybe in Spain too...
Regarding my "gaming goals", not too much to say about them... In the Rising Star game, I keep my focus on lowering my EGO, spending all my earnings on lessons... That means almost zero funds left on cards and packs... On the other side, my progress on pushing down the EGO is visible! I got it under 8% from over 30% that I had a year or two ago!
I have reached my GolemOverlord goal for this year before, and I'm still climbing in rankings... Will see where I will finish at the end of the year... Maybe instead of finishing in the Top 350, I could reach the Top 300? We will see...
Finally, these are my initial numbers and goals for 2025, created on January 5th, 2025...
MyHiveGoals 2025 Edition - The Beginning!
Join me in this awesome #MyHiveGoals and let's grow together! It is fun, motivating, and will keep you focused!
Thank you for your time,
--ph--
PS. None of this is financial advice of any kind...
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