Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today

Writing Goals

I recently saw someone who I follow fairly regularly, happen to seem to shift their writing goals on the platform away from posting daily.

In thinking of this, I wanted to set myself a goal and see what I can do to achieve it but also what would it look like to get on the other side of said goal?

The particular author I'm referring to is quite well known here on Hive and has been a religious daily poster for several years now but I popped over to their page to see what things they had written about to see what I could drop a comment on when I noticed that it had been more than a day since they posted. That was odd, they were usually at least once a day, sometimes twice. Hmm.. I will have to dig into this further to make sure they are okay, physically and mentally.

With that in mind though, I wonder if they achieved the goal they set out to do on the platform in one way or another. Posting every day for "X" number of weeks, months or years. How many would that be? I don't know but it's an interesting thought. One that I started to formulate myself into a goal that is different than my Hive Power and other numerical goals that I've set for myself and my account here. I want to post once a day, every day, for 5 years!

Why 5 years? That's likely not going to be a concrete answer but I tend to enjoy numbers that are 5's and 0's since they fit into each other numerically when you add or subtract them. So with the notion of posting once a day for 5 years, where am I at with that now? Well my posting streak started December 27th 2020. 2020 was a hell of a year for many reasons but for me it was a year that I finally decided that I would be sitting my ass down and writing at least one post a day every day for a month. That month then moved to two months, then to 6 months and then I said fuck it let's keep going and see how far we can make it! I've made it 2 years and 2 months just about now. I'm almost halfway to my 5 year mark which is cool. What I can't picture myself though is what life will be like in another 2 years and 10 months lol. With how the world is rapidly changing, a lot for the worse, but some for the better, what will that look like?

What will I be writing about? Will we have more or less of certain types of content? More users, exponentially more or a decent amount more than we have now? Lots of questions and interesting to think of that far into the future for sure. What I do plan on doing though and being consistent in is the posting and see how things develop over that span of time. It would be cool to think of that my account would be over "X" amount numerically as far as Hive Power is concerned but that's hard to say as that definitely fluctuates wildly on a day to day basis. One of the interesting things, doing some rough calculations that could certainly change, at least on the curation front my account will be about 7,500 Hive Power further along than it is at now, factoring in the slow growth over time that it has with the curation reward I'll be getting daily for the votes I'm sending out across the ether here.

I'm thinking that I should rather enjoy writing one post a day over that span of time. I have thought about trying to bring it up to 2 posts per day but that's too much pressure. I don't think it would do me well to try and churn out that much content, because quite frankly I sometimes barely have enough to get through a particular week never mind trying to write double the volume lol. It would certainly be challenging in many regards to attempt that!

The good part as well for me in writing one post a day is that I get to also enjoy the other important part of it all: the community engagement. Without being in the communities and commenting on stuff, responding to others and being a decent citizen of Hive, I think it would lose a lot of it's luster. I get a lot of enjoyment, as do many, with being in the trenches of the communities and posts to try and encourage others along and do what's good for the overall performance of the community and that's have discussions and make friendships all over the place! So while the posting is going to be important and fun for me, long-term it's definitely equally as important to continue to do the commenting that I've been doing so that we can all flourish and encourage more people onto the platform!

^-CmplXty. _{Real human written content, never AI.}

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