Another year on HIVE has passed, and it´s time to do the accounting regarding #MyHiveGoals... Was it a successful year? Did I reach my goals, and how hard was it?
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To begin, I was much less active this year than in previous ones, especially in the second half... I wouldn´t say that the HIVE price had something to do with it, as I was in a similar spot before, but rather the general burnout and some reflection on the Hive community... It looks like I have absorbed more negativity this year than usual... Somehow, I have a feeling we are rolling in the mud for a quiet time as we didn´t learn the lesson... If you are doing the same thing over and over again, you can´t expect to see a different result...
Despite the negative vibes, I was still pushing forward, maybe with less enthusiasm, but the numbers did go up! So, let's check them out...
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The big yellow-ish bar on the chart is the 1K power-up I did at the last #HivePUD, the rest is mostly my curation rewards, as I sucked with content creation recently... I'm not sure that will change soon, but I do have ideas, material to share, some nice photos, but I lack action! I could blame holidays and vacations for it, but that would be unfair... It's just me being lazy...
Btw, curation rewards went down almost 25% after the latest hardfork, so my earnings will not go up as fast as they went in the last few months... If I want to see the chart going up faster, I will have to create more content, or buy some HIVE directly from the markets, or figure out new ways to accumulate it... Speaking of that, I have set up my 3Speak encoding node, which is collecting small beneficiary rewards from people using it... It's peanuts at the moment, as there aren't too many people creating video content at the moment. Hopefully, with 3Speak being much stable than before, that could change...
Let's begin with my 2025 HivePower goal! In my last report from the beginning of November, I was "short" for almost 2K to my yearly goal, and today, I'm almost 2K OVER my yearly goal of 125K HivePower!!! What happened? To be honest, I have no idea... lol... I suppose that's the magic of the bear market, of the low HIVE price! You get similar upvotes in dollar value like before, but they are worth much more in HIVE value!
Also, I did power up some HIVE every single day, but those were small amounts... And, of course, already mentioned HIVE curation rewards! They had the biggest impact of this growth... 783HP in the last 30 days, which gets to around 1.5K for the last 2 months!
Regarding my staked HBD goal, I reached it in November, which I already shared in the last report... I had an idea to continue growing it, but instead of doing that, I began to nibble and buy some cheap HIVE...
The third goal that meant a lot to me was the Hive Meetups goal! At the beginning of the year, I thought that 5 IRL HIVE meetups would be easy to reach, but it wasn't like that at all! Bad crypto market conditions, less money in the pocket, less travelling, and hanging out with Hivians... In early November, this number was only 2, and I needed 3 more meetups to reach this goal! It sounded impossible, but with a bit of effort, it was manageable to do it!
The Krakow meetup was already scheduled, but before going there, I had a mini-meetup in Prague with my dear friends, 
Then the Krakow meetup happened, which was my 4th official meetup this year! It was awesome to visit The Kingdom again and to hang out with some dear Hive friends again... What I wasn't aware of until the last day of that meetup was that I would arrange an additional meetup at my place very soon after Krakow!
In Krakow, my friend 
Unfortunately, I couldn't get them all... One of my "flexible goals" stayed unreached, and it is the number of Rising Star cards in the game... When the game dynamics changed, I had changed my approach too, so this wasn't a surprise at all, but rather a "calculated miss." 😃
The other gaming goal was the GolemOverlord rank, which I reached a few months ago... Despite that, I continued pushing this one and got to the rank 292, while the goal was to reach 350! Looking at numbers today looks like this was an easy job, but I had a lot of doubts about this as it depended a lot on other players and how they are ranking... Luckily, I have picked the right strategy that helped me to "overdo" this goal!
All in all, I'm happy with #MyHiveGoals for 2025! When I look back, I can't say that any of them was easy to accomplish... Could I do better? Of course, I could... If I had a bit more consistency and perseverance as I had in the past, these numbers would be much better... I know that some of my Hive friends who were more dedicated than I did an awesome job this year!
How did you do in 2025? Did you reach your goals? Do you plan to continue your HivePower accumulation in 2026?
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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