What I Learned In 2021

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WTF Is A BlockChain?!?!

When all of your friends are talking about building their fortunes on the blockchain the pressure of FOMO just builds to an unacceptable point. I have heard of blogging on BlockChain since December of 2020 but did not join Hive until February of 2021. Fast-acting like a turtle. I am not really an early adopter which is why I was so surprised to find that it is still early to be on the Hive BlockChain.

Missing out on opportunities is the worst, as it gives us a lot of "What Could Have Been" that kind of thinking will make a person crazy. The word Blockchain was being thrown around like people were getting paid to talk about it, later I find they were and are, me included and anyone reading this as well.

I am sure everyone reading this knows what a blockchain is, and does not need my basic, and I mean basic definition of a blockchain. Keep in mind the Hive Blockchain is the only one that I have experience with. I am not a person that has branched out to other blockchains as my hands have been pretty full with Hive.

It Pays To Be Active Daily

This is crazy, back in October I tried my hand at the CTP 30 Day Content Challenge. The challenge was to blog on Hive once daily for 30 days straight. This had me rework my entire workday, oh did I mention I am self-employed and work from home?

Blain Jones really challenged me with this concept. Write at least 1 article a day every day. IT sounds so super easy, I mean as affiliate marketers content is king so we should be publishing daily to sell daily. I need to add I am a crap affiliate marketer but have a nice living because I am an awesome reseller. Reselling feeds us, pays the rent, and the bills, everything else is pretty much at the "it needs more work level."

This being said I really had to work at publishing something once daily. Blain was not asking for any great literary or journalistic work. Just a few paragraphs about our daily business-building journey. I overthought the heck out of it. The challenge did teach me that if I publish daily I will get paid daily. Not pennies but Dollars and some of those posts yielded almost $20(to be fair this was not normal just a few posts like 3 or 4 had a reward like that)

The story does not end with daily publishing as my Hive activities became more complicated as I added more things to it, among them seriously curating and commenting over 100 posts a week. As I write this I have been a bit behind because of the holidays. That being said doing that many comments weekly has resulted in some nice Hive, HBD, CTP, 1UP tokens just to name a few as there are a lot of different tokens that just sprinkle into my HE Wallet as rewards for commenting and curating.

When You Retire Your Wife...

Due to the reselling business doing so well, my wife and I looked over our finances and decided it was time for her to end a 26-year career with Walmart. For the first time in her adult life, my wife Anmarie has her whole day ahead of her to do with as she wills for the rest of her life.

I am lucky she takes a portion of her day and helps me out. Anmarie also scheduled the heck out of our Holiday Season as far out as January 13th. That is the last of the holiday celebrations and going off with a bang at Disneyland for 3 days. Being the type of entrepreneur that is accustomed to working from before the sunrises into the night 6 to 7 days a week, this makes me uneasy.

The good news is that I have been experimenting with different types of automation and working remotely. You may not even see an interruption in my activities if I can just get everything to work together. Lately, I can't even get images to appear when using Hive-Engine Dapps on any of my browsers, this happened once before for about a week and then the problem just went away.

To Be Continued...

This article is much bigger in scope than I had first imagined. The more I write the more that needs to be said. I know when watching a show or movie we hate to see to be continued. Sorry, but I learned so much last year.



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Congratulations on finding the blockchain! And opportunity sometimes is where you make it.

I just had fun hanging out and chatting with my friends. As well as posting what I wanted to do and speaking my own voice.

And now I've got a pretty serious investment in this blockchain. As well as liquidity pools and staking so many more tokens than I ever thought possible has now got me a little overwhelmed.

Here I started from nothing and I'm still a little means and now I'm actually dropped down just below dolphin.

Well my goal this year is to seriously grow!

It is definitely time to again further invest in the community.

I definitely believe in the technology.

Have you heard of hivelist.io ?

We have our own blockchain commerce here you really should plug in if you haven't already.

Feel free to tag me if needed or we can exchange discord information.

I totally got a friend who built Hive list and it's an amazing ecosystem attached to our blockchain.

Happy New years and happy new opportunities!

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I have not heard of it but will check it out. 👍

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Absolutely and then we have play to earn video games.

There is a really amazing one called @psyberx that is coming out.

We have so much opportunity!

And then on top of it you're getting paid multiple kinds of cryptocurrencies so are you using the tribal markets? Are you involved with any of the diesel pools yet which means you put up equal amounts of Hive and some other token and you get fees from people swapping tokens. As well as daily liquid rewards.

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I'm happy you found the Hive blockchain :-). It's nice to have you here. I also struggled with this challenge. It seems simple but it requires a lot of work and consistency. It was a nice exercice and I'm happy I managed to get through with it. What kind of reselling are you doing?

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In reselling I focus mainly on collectibles, but I will flip almost anything as long as it meets certain criteria, for instance, no furniture as crating is a bit expensive so unless it is a valuable antique the profit margin does not allow it.
Items that are smaller and ship for a reasonable price like books, toys, games, make for perfect items to sell online. Using platforms like eBay really simplifies the process.

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Congratulations!
It's fascinating to see how things are changing around us. Blockchain gives us a lot of opportunities. It is still at the early stage. I'm learning, it's an awesome journey. Thank you @mba2020 for sharing your experience! :)

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