🎼 Goal Settin, Jet Settin, 🎼 Oh Never Mind, But Yes; Goal Setting

So today, I woke up to a bit of a topsy-turvy morning. My fiancé is on her first week at a new job and her younger boys, ages 10 and 14 are at their first day of school. For the 14 year old, it's his first year of high school (YIKES) and Dariel has a bit of social angst. He's a unique kid. Smart, but grown up smart with social angst and that is a challenging combo.

Both Dariel and Jacen's school buses were insanely late, like shitty late and obviously; Tiffany was running around like a chicken without a head. I'm battling a hamstring pull, so I did what I can do to ease the burden; which honestly wasn't much. She appreciated it, so I guess I did some things right.

I work from home and my employers don't bust my chops, but they are keeping me super busy these days and throughout that deluge of work, COVID in March, this injury that is crushing my soul; because working out is who I am for the last 8 years and the notion of where the hell am in life at 55 hits me.

Mind you, I'm a badass 55 year old. You would never know I'm that age. It helps I was born and raised in New York, so that cockiness still percolates inside me.

This morning Tiffany set her alarm for an hour earlier, so she can be there for Dariel as he prepares for that first day of high school and he is scared, but hey we all had trepidations on our first day - am I right? With things not going their way today, it was important she was there for him.

I had set my alarm for an hour later than she did, so that I can get an early start. I do that anyway. Shit, I'm up at 3:45am usually and at the Orangetheory Fitness studio less than an hour after that preparing for the 60 minute workout, so waking up at 6:30am is cake.

I checked my phone and go through the normal check-ins, how many people signed up to my list, did anyone sign up to my downline, how did my posts do on HIVE, a peek at CoinGecko, Hive-Engine, Leo-Dex, the whole shabang.

Then a post by @stickupboys caught my attention: I Am Alive and Financial Goals.....Are They Important?

Then last night I read @elianaicgomes that also caught my attention: My Attempt in Thinking Long-Term

It's not that I don't see these type of posts all the time, but I like it when it has some emotion, some grit and just plain relatable.

That got me thinking, how are my goal setting skills? They are pretty shitty. I'm more a go with the flow type person. I don't want to put any type of pressure on myself, because I am self-diagnosed ADD and OCD. I'm also a Gemini, so that says it all.

Seriously, I do set goals for myself; but I'm a bit chaotic with the whole process and definitely not looking to reach any unrealistic end of the rainbow kumbaya win the lottery bull$hit.

I keep things simple in my own mind and know what would make me happy. What would allow me to leave this earth in peace.

With all that said, when I see these amazing folks across the HIVE space with their laid out goal setting journeys, it does push me a bit to at least have some parameters. Some numbers to shoot for.

I've staked 11,000 CTP up to this point, I'm at 440 INDEX. I have over 5000 ALIVE staked. I mean those aren't astronomical, but I do pay attention and I make sure to be in the know as I learn something new everyday. I have some BRO, LBI, CL. I believe I have foundational investments that I can build on and continue to build on.

I'm not as excited about the little I have in BTC, ETH and a few others outside of HIVE, but I don't want to be foolish and not invest there too.

At the foundation of my goals is passive income and why I'm a proud CLICK.TRACK.PROFIT Ambassador, because I'm here as a member of The CTP Swarm and they teach how to bridge entrepreneurship goals with the blockchain - HIVE specifically.

Also, they lead by example; which kind of forces me not to slack:

I understand the importance of goal setting and I know there are elemental, graphical, mental acuity type ways of tracking them and subsequently reaching them.

If anything, being on HIVE and seeing a lot of the member's goals they have set; helps me be more grounded on what I would like to accomplish.

Also very helpful, is the human element of the @wearealive tribe; which not all goals is about money to provide happiness.