Well it REALLY is a little late for a Happy new year post!
I still do though 😁
More importantly though, I hope the year has started well and if you're a planner, you have set your stall out in a way that feels satisfying and realistic enough for you to get a good handle on things.
If you remember the self improvement community, that is why it was created to assist each other in moving forward with those aspects of life that we wish to improve.
However, I was a moron, thinking that an old technophobe like me would know how to set up a community and understand how it works... I don't!
I don't even know how to log-in, so that is essentially dead at this stage, although it is still a GREAT tag to use if you want to find like-minded people to connect with, which I highly recommend, when 2 or more come together with a shared aim and for encouragement, good things can happen.
I am hardly ever here as you may well have noticed but I ALWAYS said, I would never leave Hive as I have some good friends here whom I connect with both here and in places like Discord.
Last year I had a descent with regard to my health again but made some serious commitments to put that right and get my life back on track again, that is only really coming in to play now. Plenty of challenges of course but the ultimate state of zero challenges is death and I am not quite ready for that yet!!!
I set out a plan to be able to take a job again in January, however, disappointingly, that is not going to transpire. The good days fake me out and I feel good, strong and capable again, then a bad spell brings the situation in to stark reality again.
So I am going all out to be able to make a living online. I started some things in motion on New years day and committed to 1% better each day. I will avoid overwhelm and start manageably and who cannot commit to 1% per day?
I mapped this all out with AI so I know where I am expected to be at the end of each day and am currently on track with my goals.
Maybe I will document my progress here, who knows?
Every year, I swear it's all going to be different and by February, things revert quickly.
I have mapped so much out this year, charts, graphs and plans to keep me on track starting so infinitesimally small, I would have to be an uber-loser to not hit my daily goals.
I must achieve financial equilibrium this year and if that ain't gonna be through being able to go to work again, I gotta improvise!
I feel so very optimistic, upbeat right now and am allowing myself to feel a little pride at following through, no matter how small those steps.
I have always set my sights too high in the past but realise that I turn 54 this year and if not now, when?
I have waited a long, LONG time to grow up... Yeah, it ain't gonna happen, but I am pretty cool with that but I CAN learn to follow a simple plan, CAN'T I???
Well I am glad I got to check in, I have been meaning to.
Again I hope YOUR year is going well, is off to a flyer, is not terrible. delete where applicable
If not, reset as soon as you are able, set what may feel like some pitifully small goals and compound the results, just plough forward, you know deep down that you've got this if you really want to.
I will stop by fairly soon and check in on some of you, even if I am not writing posts, I still have some comments in me 😁
As I said, I will write the odd post still, sometimes, I will feel a burst of ideas and frantically punch the tired keys, but my goals will need to be under a tight rein to do so, make sense?
I have always said that barring some insane high highs in price, I have never and probably will never take and money from here. It has always been more like a valve or outlet for sharing the odd thought with a little gamified XP element.
My ultimate target was always Dolphin status, once I reached that, anything else was/is a bonus.
See ya soon. Have an awesome 2026!
