So a month passed and I felt it as a year. So many new concepts, so much more drawing and writing for me. Hive really makes me more productive as a person. Which is normal taking in mind my gamer nature and Hive's gamification with awards, power ups, contests and engagements quests.
I got a lot of help in my first month
It was an unexpectedly strong month! Thanks to 
So today's newbie task is to participate in the #HPUD / #HivePUD or Hive Power Up day.
What is #HPUD
It is a day, every first day of every month, when all participants power up as much as they can, stop powering down or selling Hive for 24 hours.
And for that you can actually win prizes in the form of delegation and more.
All we have to do is meet these requirements:
- Power up at least 10 Hive
- Write post about it and use #HivePUD tag
some more less important things you can read here in this post from
What did I do to Power Up
I almost had no free Hive to power up, but I had made some HBD. So I traded all my HBD on https://wallet.hive.blog/market
Then using my 
It was really easy and now I can proudly say that in my first month of hiving I reached these numbers:
Writing original content on @PeakD and 
It is kinda cool, I think!
## What is next for me
My next tasks are:
- make my final post recapping my month in the newbie initiative.
- I have 10 more day to reach my goals that I set for 1 month period in my post here , I think I am gonna hit them in a few days.
- Start working on a new community about UX/UI design(this is my field of interest) and I think Hive would benefit from such a community.
Thank you for your time and have fun here!
All drawings, images, text and illustrations in this post are original content by Dany or Poly