Goals and Targets - Set 'em and Smash 'em

I might have helped make this dartboard

I've always understood the benefit of having targets and goals, both short term and long term and I've always set them for myself, some have been mammoth, some have been small. Some have taken years to achieve and others have been on my daily "to do" list.

The journey of life is never linear and human nature (mostly) tries to panel beat it into a linear fashion because most of us like to see things in little boxes, we like to have a goal, with a vision to accompany it, some stepping stones along the way to get there and when things don't go according to plan, we sometimes get derailed from our goals completely. This has happened to me on a good few occassions with big and small goals alike. Life is messy and it's a very scarce thing for a goal to be achieved exactly to plan. Get back up, dust off, re-assess, get back on track!

I was chatting with someone this morning and wondering how many people that are new to Hive see the long term prospects of what Hive can and will become as well as how many of the Hive users set goals for their accounts.

This year I set some new goals both for Hive and for Leo & Cub. It's quite exhilirating to cement these in my mind, branch off into new investments, research new ways I can diversify passive income and so on. For me personally I feel that's really important - being able to look forward with a vision and something to work towards.

I have been reminiscing times of my life when I didn't really have set goals. After I moved to England in 2001 on a working holiday visa, I didn't really have any work experience other than working in a CD store and hadn't entirely locked down my career choice. I went to a technical high school because I wanted to become an aircraft technician. A year later, I was working in a dartboard factory - a Winmau dartboard factory. I possibly helped to make that dartboard in the photo, I'll never know. My job was bending the pieces of metal that go into the middle of the dartboard using a freaking huge industrial machine. Not exactly fixing fighter jets.

Often our expectation of the journey to reaching a goal is not what it turns out to be, but should that stop us from chasing that target? I don't think so. I never ended up fixing fighter jets, I changed the goal (for good reason) and then got on with achieving the new one instead. I still love fighter jets and I'm sad that it never happened, but life moves on and I'll still get that adrenalin spike when a jet hits Mach II while flying over during an airshow, that hasn't changed just because the goal did.

So what were the goals I set this month?

February 2022's crypto goals:

Double my HP in Hive (reach 1350HP)
Take part in Power Up Day
Post every day of the month
Power up every day (I missed the 8th so I didn't make this one)
Delegate some HP to LeoFinance, then put my earned Leo into a CubFinance Farm
Reduce the variety of tokens I have in Binance

These are the goals I've set for next month:

March 2022's Hive goals:

Reach 2000HP
Increase my engagement
Take part in Power Up Day (PUD)
Post every day of the month
Power up every day of the month (PUM)
Reach Reputation level 66 and ranking 5200
Reach 2,6m vests

While I know that a goal like "increase my engagement" is completely subjective without being measurable here, I think that the metrics available to us to track these things via Hivestats.io & HiveBuzz provide us with a good set of tools to quantify it.

I've only started tracking these this month so it'll be interesting to see what the figures look like in a week, however I can say with absolute certainty that having a long term goal in mind, then having these smaller targets ahead is definitely motivating and exciting.

“Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, but onward, upward, till the goal ye win.”

- Frances Anne Kemble

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