Half-Year Review * Hive Goals, Week 26, 2022

in LeoFinance2 years ago

It is the half of 2022 already. I saw that in somebody else's goals post on Listnerds (I think it was on @mypathtofire's post), or I wouldn't have noticed it.

It's time to take a look at my Hive goals from a higher distance, for a broader view.

Before we start, I believe a look at the bitcoin chart this year is important, for context.

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The year starts from the vertical line. Anything in the grayish area is from 2021. At the beginning of the year, bitcoin was a little above 48k.

I didn't set my goals at 48k bitcoin, but probably around 45k or something like that.

It's interesting that 48k was bitcoin's highest price this year, also reached at the end of March, but not crossed.

My initial Hive goals for 2022 were:

  • 25000 HP
  • 5000 HBD

Even if this wouldn't turn out to be the year when the bear hit with full force, having both these goals at the same time and both almost impossible to achieve without using external funds was a mistake.

I started with practically no HBD, so I needed to increase that balance. At the same time, as the bear market deepened, it was harder to get by HBD, and that amount would be more useful if turned into HIVE at the right time. So I finally gave up on my HBD goal... for this year.

At the same time, the bear market and the airdrop hit Splinterlands assets too, and I wasn't able to use them to push for my HIVE and HBD goals.

And I had Splinterlands goals too, which I finally included in these reports, I think in April.

Two goals were added after people challenged me to do it, I thought about it and I agreed. One is represented by my social goals, to reach 10k comments and 10k replies this year, which turns out to be the most reliable and easy-to-reach goal, although I was reluctant at first.

The other is my LEO staking goal (10k by the year's end), which is the most recent addition.

I learned a valuable lesson, after setting the goals the way I did. It's very important to make sure the goals are realistic both separate and together when you set them. I didn't pay enough attention to the interactions and interdependencies between my goals, a mistake I don't intend to make in the future.

Now, let's see the progress made this week.

HIVE Power Goal

I've added 133 HIVE Power this week, partially helped by the Upbit pump & dump, of which I talked more at large during the week.

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Overall, I powered up 479 HIVE in June, which is still less than I need to.

LEO Staked

I staked more than 100 LEO this week, more exactly, 120. But I need more, something like 167 LEO weekly without counting the compounding effect on curation rewards.

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Splintershards (SPS) Staked Goal

Only 1500 SPS staked this week. Tarsa got in the way of staking more this week because I needed to swap some SPS to DEC to be able to have enough for my 62 BCX purchase.

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Maxing Chaos Legion Set*

*) or reaching the limit beyond which I consider upgrading a card not profitable

Overall situation, to better gauge my progress, because I still need to push hard on this goal:

Total CL Cards (incl. reward)Maxed or LimitPercent
1315340.45%
Total CL Cards (excl. reward)Maxed or LimitPercent
983232.65%

This was the week of Tarsa!

I finally (almost) maxed it. I only need a few more level 1 cards to max it, but I don't want to buy them. I'll start opening packs when the airdrop is over, and I'm sure I'll get what I need from there.

In the meantime, I left the unused ones on the rental market.

Rare SummonersMaxed
66
Legendary SummonersMaxed
--
Common MonstersMaxedReached Max Desired Level
2961+? (10 under consideration)
Rare MonstersMaxedReached Max Desired Level
236? (2 under consideration)
Epic MonstersMaxedReached Max Desired Level
174? (2 under consideration)
Legendary MonstersMaxedReached Max Desired Level
2381+? (5 more under consideration)
CL Reward CardsMaxedReached Max Desired Level
21+1221+00

Social Targets

I started the week with 8620 comments and 8973 replies.

And now I am at 8741 comments and 9097 replies. They are both above my targets of 81 comments and 76 replies weekly to reach 10k of each by the year's end, which is good!

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Wao! I am inspired. That is a lit of work and determination. You got me thinking.

That is a lit of work and determination.

Yep, you kinda need those. :)

You are progressing so well towards your goals. Congratulations!

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Thanks! Two of them give me a hard time so far... HIVE and maxing CL set.

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I think you will eventually get to them ;)

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HAHAAA 9097 replies already, so I was right:

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Voted on ListNerds!

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Yep, you were! I think I read 10k instead of 9k when I replied to you then.

Well, at least the social targets are going strong. Even though you fell short of your goals, you did not panic and sell.

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I'm pretty close to my SPS goal too. As for the LEO goal, it's too soon to tell, but I still think it's doable without terrible efforts.

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You are making great progress but that is definitely a ton of Tarsa's that you are buying. It does look like you got a ton of goals going on so maybe focusing on a few might be better.

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HP and maxing CL set are my audacious goals this year. The others not so much, but yet they are important.

Great progress towards your goals. I think the work towards HBD makes less sense with the low price of Hive, but it is also a good addition to the portfolio. Hard choices.

The goals need to be structured differently if I want to include both. @ph1102 gave an idea to have a sort of an aggregate goal for them in the future. That's a very good idea, and I'll think about it for 2023.

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Thanks for the mention... It's not that I have invented that... 😃 It just has the sense to do it that way... :)

That's true. My bad, next time I'll say it was my idea, lol.

Great achievement buddy. I admire your determination and consistency. It's very impressive to see that people are successful on hive blockchain regardless of the worst bear market situation.

One step at a time, one brick at a time, and one day at a time. It's that simple.

Yeah, that reminds of the saying, that Rome was not built in a day. It took years of painstaking, perseverance, patience, learning and determination.

Exactly.

there's no rush to get to 25k, 3 years is plenty of time until the next bull run :P

Yep, but in 3 years I want to be an orca. ;)

Didn't know you have big goals. :)

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One thing leads to another, I guess. Just thinking ahead.

You could hit that SPS goal before the airdrop ends... So close to it!

Yep, I'm not bound to that timeline, but it's very possible. Depends on the cards market too.

you are crushing it! numbers I can only dream of but soon I will start using my listnerds unstakes for these Hive goals myself, which will help a lot!

Keep on rocking it!

!CTP

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Thanks!

but soon I will start using my listnerds unstakes for these Hive goals myself, which will help a lot!

I have been waiting with my LISTNERDS in the sell orderbook for at least a few days, but it looks like people get impatient and sell to the buy offer, which is much lower.

Yes, I'm guilty too some days :) lol

I'm hoping Blain comes to the rescue, lol. Because so far we have few and very patient buyers.

Yes, and I'm sure once new updates are released as well as when new website is online in the (near?) future, I bet things will be more attractive for new users. I'm personally not going anywhere and keep building my team, I have faith in the project :)

They have a new website in development for Listnerds? I didn't know that.

Yeah they will be having one central website I believe they said for all services. And in a few months (I believe it is a few months) blain will be working on this fulltime so he will have more time for this and that will probably help for things to go smoother as well I assume.

I didn't know about the social goals part. At least, those ones are not dependent on the market conditions lol. I'll create a target for myself too.

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Yep, I added them in March, I think. They work pretty much on auto-pilot (I don't do anything special for them) because my engagement levels are high anyway.

Very detailed. Now sure how you could keep track of all that!

Hahaha! You should see my monthly stats.

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