I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1037 - 9,800 HP Surpassed, HPUD Today, and the Beauty of the Dips - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, May 30, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, 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, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I noticed this morning that I had crossed the threshold of 9,800 Hive Power, so I now have just under 200 HP to go before I reach 10,000 HP. While I'm not progressing as quickly as some (cough, @borniet, cough), my HP is still increasing at a pretty good rate. I've obviously got a lot of ground to cover to achieve my year-end goal of 15,000 Hive Power, however, and it probably won't be possible without a strong manual, external boost at some point over the next seven months. I'm still working on that part.

The June HPUD also just happens to be today (in my time zone at least), and I'm ready with 50+ HIVE to power up later this evening. This powerup should give me the boost that I need to reach 9,900 HP at some point this coming week, and then only 100 to go until the big 10K. I've been investing so hard into layer-2 income tokens and diesel/liquidity pools that I haven't made any major investment into HP since my mega-powerup to dolphin level the December before last, other than my regular monthly HPUD powerups.

If I were to take a focused approach to my HP growth, I could liquidate all my layer-2 assets, along with my big chunk of HBD in Savings, and I'd easily reach my 15,000 HP goal, but that course of action would incapacitate me in just about every other investment domain, which would be a very bad thing from my perspective, so obviously I wouldn't do that. Some would choose that path without thinking twice about it, but for the well-rounded sort of investor that I am, that just doesn't work for me.

With BTC and the crypto market taking another downturn, and HIVE following suit, the APR for HP is rising again in counterbalance, which makes it grow more quickly. This, and the fact that with lower fiat prices, HIVE is cheaper to acquire, both from market buys and token swaps, and for HBD conversions. These are some of the beautiful and very useful benefits to market downturns.

I'm playing the long game on Hive, so growing all of my assets and income across all invest domains, with alternating focus, and in the most balanced way possible, is the only way to go for me. I'm building a financial empire, so I have much patience.

Yesterday, Friday, after finishing up my Hive tasks, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session ended just after 6PM, after which I headed to the Landing to collect my jar of superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then back to the Flow House to dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I had to pause that for about an hour, since Iolanthe came up to the Flow House to ask me if I could make her some food, which I did end up doing. After making Io food, I returned to the Flow House to continue with Hive. I was able to get everything done on Hive by a little after 10:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed around 12AM. I woke up just after 6AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, getting out of bed around 6:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then heading back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:45PM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 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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