I live barefooted and naked, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i. I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙
Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
The question of just how feasible it is to be able to live off of what is generated on Hive arises fairly often here, especially among newcomers. From my 2.25 years of experience of very high activity on Hive, and observing and talking with others, I can say that being able to live off of what we create on Hive is very possible indeed, but it is not a quick process usually, requiring commitment, dedication, consistency, determination, patience, persistence, perserverence, and tenacity over time. The analogy of the time and work that it takes to succeed in a personal business is very applicable and relevant to succeeding on Hive to the point of being able to live off of it, and if we look at what we do on Hive in that light, our success is all but guaranteed.
One of the main challenges to being able to live off of what we generate, either actively or passively, on Hive, is to not extract assets from it until it reaches the point of producing more value than we can use. In other words, when we are able to pay for most or all that we need from a small portion of our monthly interest, taking HBD in Savings as an example, then we've successfully reached that point. Even though my Hive assets are now close to $3,000 in fiat value, I know very well that I'm nowhere near where I'd need to be to live off of it yet. That's where the magic of compounding interest, exponential growth, and patience come in, because I know that soon the fiat value of my assets will surpass $5,000, $10,000, $20,000, $50,000, $100,000, for the more I have, the faster it grows!
How and where I choose to live my life, I don't actually need that much, and because of that, being able to live off of my Hive assets becomes all the easier. I really only need a few hundred dollars per month, so if I'm able to get HBD in Savings to 120,000, I'd receive 2,000 in interest, which even if I only use 500, then 1,500 gets added into the total to continue compounding. As long as I'm still saving more than I'm using, then I'll be golden.
One of the second biggest challenges to being able to live off of our Hive assets, as I mentioned in my post yesterday, is having an easy and quickly means of converting Hive assets into local fiat currencies, in my case the US dollar, without having to submit to unlawful gatekeeper KYC and taxation. I don't presently know how to do that, so even if I had enough to live off of on Hive right now, I would not be able to convert it to dollars to use. That's a tad frustrating, though I know a solution will present itself to me when I actually need it.
Whether I can presently use my Hive assets to pay for things in the world or not, I will still continue building, growing, and saving, because I know that at some point soon it will indeed become very possible and feasible, and I want to be ready for it when it does.
Yesterday, Friday, was a very cloudy and rainy day, as every day this week has been, with sporadic moments of no rain scattered through the day. There was actually a slight hint of sun coming out, here and there, but it never really broke through the cloud cover. With such wet weather, working outside was not high on my list of what I wanted to do, but I had things to get done, so I did it anyway.
I left the Flow House a little after 3:30PM yesterday (I could have left earlier, but it was raining heavily), after finishing my essential Hive tasks. As I usually do, I put my focus first on taking photos (for this post), which with the weather, was not very easy. After finishing taking photos, I got my machete and collected a large wheelbarrow full of Cecropia and Melochia leaves for cow-milking food. With that completed, I went to work in Ano's nursery, continuing the potting up of the bamboo cuttings that I had taken the other day, and that I had partially potted up yesterday. It began raining very heavily as I worked, so I ended up working in the rain for about half my time.
Once I had finished with potting up bamboo cuttings, I took a shower, strained out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, made myself food, got food for my kitty friend, then I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening round of Hive tasks and catching up on notifications. There were a lot of notifications, and Ecency (both the website and app) was having issues, so I wasn't able to get everything done until just after 12AM. I did a quick round of token management, then I went to bed around 12:30AM. I did sleep well, thankfully, waking up around 7:30AM, doing another quick round of token management, then getting out of bed just after 8AM to go make my superfood fire coffee.
It's now just after 12:30PM, so it's a very good time to end this post, so that I can get to my afternoon round of Hive essential tasks, before leaving the Flow House in the later afternoon to take photos for the next iteration of this post, and then land work. While it has been raining heavily on and off, there is also quite a lot of sun today, which is pretty wonderful! I deeply appreciate you all very much! Until tomorrow! Onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.
Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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