2022 Goals - Hive, Personal, Splinterlands, etc

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My Goals for 2022!

A new year has dawned. This is not a new-year resolution, because we all know that without a plan these things do not work.

I am not saying that you should not make a resolution, but I also have something against waiting for the end of the year/start of the new year to begin doing something or to stop doing something.

That said, I have become a bit of a procrastinator. It is easy to see going back in time on the blockchain that 3+ years ago I was more active, even if it was only my Journal.

Now that Hive is out and I have discovered it, I can see that with the invention of Communities and a personal Blog space, I could easily continue with Journal entries. I fear that this will be too much work for me to get to. Real-life has placed a lot of demands on my time and I do not think that I will do much else if I try to do a daily journal right now.

But stats are cool. It is nice to have goals and see how your account grows and see what you are doing in order to achieve them.

I think a weekly stats update is more than enough granular data for me to layout and gives a good enough analysis of what is going on. I do this to motivate myself as well as others who go through similar stages.

But there is one big twist to my stats page and goals: I have a family to plan for!

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Goals for the Family and Motivation

My partner @clairemobey joined Hive and made her introductory post here and I created #Splinterlands accounts for my kids as explained here.

It is my belief that given the right education on the blockchain, the three kids can build themselves great networks and learn a lot and earn a lot by posting on hive, creating content, and playing #splinterlands. I will be assisting @clairemobey and the kids to obtain their next step goals. Even if we meet them, we will look at a new goal after that.

The idea however is to never over-reach a goal so you can remain motivated. Yes, we all would love to have millions of HIVE, but goals should be achievable.

Especially in my case, where I struggle with a bit of self-motivation, it will be important for me to look at the smaller benchmarks and put one foot in front of the other.

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Hive Goals

At the time of writing the family, HP stands at:
@zakludick - 313.365
@clairemobey - 8.343
@aimeludick - 0.000 (Though effectively it will be 1.000 after I power up what is in her wallet)
@merenludick - 1.006
@matthew-williams 0.000 (He will also be on 1.000 once powered up)

The kids all received 1 HP each and a 10 HP delegation from @wesphilbin to get them started! Thank you so much again for that!

Goals

@zakludick must aim for 500 HP. But I will be looking at benchmarks of 325/350/375/400 and so on till I get there.

As for @clairemobey and the kids, the first 10 HP always seems to be the toughest to earn! Their goals will all be 10/20/30/40 and 50 for now.

I recommended to them and I do to all new people on Hive to focus on powering up that account to 50 HP as soon as possible. Indeed, if you can afford it, then buy the HIVE needed to get there!

I will tabulate these stats in my next post. Of course, the kids need to get their introductory posts done and their journeys begun.

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Splinterlands Goals

So I am back in on #Splinterlands in a big way. I am in a Guild, the SCU Warriors and Brawls are going well!

I have a collection of 254,445 CP which is in 569 cards at the time of writing.

I was renting out a lot of my cards at a decent profit but due to Choas Legion being launched, the game is going through a time of card abundance and cards are easy to come by, people are also scrabbling to find themselves in the new meta of the game.

Because of this, I think that it will be beneficial to rent out less of my cards and begin competing at a higher league. I was always competing up to Silver II because of my rentals but I think I shall move this up to Silver I and keep it there due to the limitations of my summoners.

I will then be focussing on building maxed out Silver decks for both Modern and Wild formats.

I managed to get 2x copies of Quix the Devious in my card packs so I bought a third and have a decent Chaos Legion Summoner able to summon maxed out Silver League cards. My plan is to max out a few Dragon cards to match him and then start with the Water Splinter.

I do like having a little more than standard cards in all my splinters but I will need to focus on maxing out a splinter at a time.

@merenludick also has his own #splinterlands goals. He has 330 CP as far as I know and wants that 1000 CP to get into Bronze II. He does want to get into Silver as well though and he is quite capable of battling there as I sometimes hand him my account to grind with.

I pay him 50% of the difference in DEC before and after he sits and games. My own little Splinterlands Scholar. It is not the first time Meren has helped me grind for resources in a game but this is the first time these resources cost actual money!

My goal is to keep 100,000 DEC in my Splinterlands account to boost my SPS airdrop. I am a bit behind because of a recent spending spree. I have 87,252 DEC at the moment.

I also managed to get myself 6,484 SPS, my goal here is to get 10,000 SPS minimum that I will keep staked. SPS is a DAO and the future is looking great in terms of SPS. It is still very cheap, for now, and I need to acquire as much of it as I can!

Goals for #splinterlands will also become more tabulated in the future.
If you do not already play Splinterlands, you should! Sign up here

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Financial Goals

On the 1st of December @clairemobey and I moved in together. We have our 3 kids to look after and things are starting to look good for us on the financial side because of the saving in rental that the move causes.

Both of us do have our debts to sort out, a result of the sum of various factors: the Covid-19 pandemic has burned financial holes in many pockets, both of us had gone through divorces and these things affect us for years afterward and the move itself caused me to take out a loan in order to secure the deposit on the new place.

With the saving in rental, this will balance out and I won't be coy in suggesting that with Hive, Splinterlands, and their associated cryptocurrencies and NFTs that I won't be looking at using all of it to help me financially!

It seems like a touchy subject as always. People love speaking about the big accounts making the big money but do not like it when smaller accounts are using the ecosystem to make money. I think that this is born from the fact that there are people that exist on the blockchain that contribute little and take out value from the platform.

But I think that this goal of mine is actually extremely awesome! That I can say that Hive and Splinterlands allowed me to pay off my debts and pave the way to a strong financial future!

This is why a weekly status and goal report will come in handy. I have more goals, but let me not make this post too long-winded.

In short, I would love to onboard more people to Hive. Locally and internationally. How else can I teach or tell them anything or motivate them if I have not done it myself?

I also need to be able to show them @clairemobey's account as an adult starting out late in 2021 on Hive and the three kids all starting effectively in 2022 and what rewards their actions reap.

#ecency is a great front end with their reward on engagement and with their mobile app, I foresee a good ability to onboard some other social media people to the ecosystem.

@merenludick will probably be doing a lot of gaming.
@aimeludick will be doing art and anime as well as possibly minting her own NFTs

I am not sure yet what @matthew-williams will be doing. He is the youngest and I will be getting him to read a lot more in 2022. All his posts will pretty much be assisted. He will probably get into Splinterlands as well. Why not?

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Right. That is enough for me.

There are SOME goals. Not too many. Not too little. Enough to look at the future and say that I have a plan in mind and that every action I take on the blockchain and on the game will take me forward to that goal.

Once I start obtaining some of these goals I can look at the next step, whenever I get there.

Cheers all!

Zak Ludick

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Taking notes of what you said to me before. Those indeed are very reasonable and good goals.

I love the fact that you have the family on here with you, especially the kids. They will learn, benefit, and grow their network of relations and friendships early on with those who share their same interests, which would ultimately have a positive effect in their lives.

I think that this is born from the fact that there are people that exist on the blockchain that contribute little and take out value from the platform.
I believe you are right there. The "hit and run" attitude harms the whole ecosystem, and I think it should be frowned upon.
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Hit and run indeed.

However, with myself and my kids.

Imagine how inspiring it would be for my daughter to post a bit of Hive, earn from it, use some money to buy better art supplies and manga books and then use those to further her art and posting quality on Hive?

I think back in the Steemit days I actually took some of my payout of my first introduction post and I bought a beer with it! And then I posted about that beer! People liked that. 😁

Someone recently used some Hive to pay for 50% of a smart watch. How cool!

This is not a game of "who's line is it anyway?". The points DO matter!

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Yes of course. That would be very inspiring and encouraging to her.

Those things do not qualify as a hit and run at all. If anything, They would be "investments" that further advance the participation and even make good quality posts about.

I didn't want to give examples, but you said it well, "they contribute very little" and/or abuse the system in some form, is what I had in mind.
Very little of that in here, but I've seen people with 5+ accounts that shitpost and circle vote for example, trying to milk the curation system while mostly spamming, just to withdraw and repeat.

I loved that beer story by the way, hahaha.

Cheers! 🍻

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Sjoe Babe!

How inspiring to see it here in black and white. Writing goals down is phenomenally powerful. I definitely need to stick all my aspirations for 2022 and beyond onto a spreadsheet, or perhaps even physically write them out and stick them on my cupboard door (this actually 100% worked for me 5 years ago: I achieved everything on that list, including finding the love of my life <3 ).

Thanks for the mention @ZakLudick. I cant wait to see our whole family grow here💖💖💖

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Oh my love. ❤

I think that is a great idea. We should do all of those things!

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Congrats this is awesome those are some great goals to have I am very similar to you in all of them getting to 500 HP and also 10K SPS are both on my short list.

All the power to you and may you accomplish great things this year

!PIZZA

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Thank you very much @drabs587. Good luck to you also!

Man. I have to get myself some Pizza so I can start doing the tipping thing.

I am sure as we work together and build a bigger and better network of people, that these goals are very attainable.

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PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA!

PIZZA Holders sent $PIZZA tips in this post's comments:
irisworld tipped zakludick (x1)
zakludick tipped beeber (x1)
drabs587 tipped zakludick (x1)
@zakludick(2/5) tipped @dynamichivers (x1)
zakludick tipped irisworld (x1)

Please vote for pizza.witness!

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your post gives me motivation in my goals this year as well. best of luck to both of us and wishing you achieve all your goals.

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Thank you. Best of luck. Let's get busy!

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It's very nice to see a whole family here on Hive as well.
I have been trying to entice my wife to post content on Hive for a long time but haven't succeeded yet.
I wish you all the goals you set for yourself and even surpass them ;)
!BEER

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Thank you very much!

After seeing your goals I am going to make sure to surpass those goals! At least, these are not necessarily my 2022 goals. Just goals I need to get to.

Yeah, it may be difficult to entice people online but wow, with the returns you are getting, I would be very motivated to going you if I were her! 🤣🤣🤣

I will be sure to watch you going forward! May 2022 bring you victory!

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These are amazing goals! I like the family picture! Tongues out in all with bright and smiling faces! I appreciate your goals and focus on Hive despite how busy you are! Glad you are finding time for Hive, splinterlands and growing that HP! So your kids have hive accounts even? Way cool that Wes has given them HP to help get them started! I think you will accomplish a lot in 2022 and know you will do well with this move together, raising happy children, and of course getting to 10k sps with those airdrops!

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Thanks man. I will be sure to make it all work!

Kids are getting their first posts ready and playing some Splinterlands as well.

Thank you so much for your support!

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I totally missed the 3HP that was "for the fam"! lol

I have now taken 3 HP and distributed them to the kids. Thank you once again. Going to power those kids up!

Check out @aimeludick's first post!

@merenludick will be next to post! He has drafted his introduction on an exam pad.

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Sent moarrrrr

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OMW. Thank you so much!

I will distribute that in a number of ways to make them all grow!

!PIZZA
!LUV

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So with that 10 HIVE I sent 2x to each of the 3 kids for power up. The first 10 HP is always the hardest to get due to RC problems.🖖

Then 1x each I have given the kids SBI and then for @clairemobey also 1x SBI.

Wes also put some SBI on the kids and that's also going to help them snowball along.

I can't wait to see how the family will look like in a year's time on Hive! It is going to be epic! 😁

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