I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #374 - Whale Level in Focus, Dolphin Level Incoming - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, August 5, 2023

I live barefooted and naked, 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. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Since I recently set my new long-term goal of reaching 600,000 HP and whale level, and my fortune this week of being able to sell a portion of my off-chain crypto assets, and then send what I made from the sale to my Hive wallet as LTC, my short-term goal of reaching 5,665 HP and dolphin level, just got a lot closer. I waited for the price of SWAP.LTC to go up a bit before finally selling it to receive 1,904.866 SWAP.HIVE. That's good, but not sufficient, so I intend to do a few more rounds of buying and selling between SWAP.HIVE and SWAP.LTC, to hopefully grow the resulting HIVE to over 2,000.

As often happens in the crypto markets, prices often don't cooperate, and that's been the case since sellng my SWAP.LTC for SWAP.HIVE. The price of SWAP.LTC is now quite a bit above the price for which I originally sold it, and it's been sitting there. A similar story happened with the 683.195 PKOIN that I still have on BitForex. The price of PKOIN dropped notably, and has been hanging out at that level for days now. So basically it's a waiting game for the moment, as I hope my sell orders on Hive Engine and BitForex to go through.

My intention is to do a huge power up on September 1st, for HPUD, and to reach dolphin level (or get very close). September would be a very fitting month to reach dolphin level, as it will be my two-year Hiversary on September 23rd. If the prices of LTC and PKOIN don't go where I want them, and my sell orders don't go through, by August 21st, I'll implement another plan, to use the assets that I have to reach my September 1st goal.

Regardless of whether or not I am able to reach dolphin level by the 1st of next month or not, I'd still be getting much closer, so it would not be far off in any case. Even if I simply powered up the 1,904 HIVE that I presently have, that would get me to almost 4,300 HP, which is not bad at all, and my road go dolphin level at 5,665 HP would be quite short.

Needless to say, I'm super excited, as my stake in this glorious Blockchain will receive a major boost, and along with it my ability to help those around me, and the whole Ecosystem, grow. There are only around 1,690 accounts at dolphin level (not counting delegations), so this will be a pretty major accomplishment for me, especially considering that I'm doing it completely without any outside fiat investment (my PKOIN were earned on Bastyon from nothing, just like here on Hive). Dolphin level, here I come!

Yesterday was the first day in almost two weeks that I fell behind on my Hive notifications and tasks a bit, as I was feeling a bit off, with a mild headache, so I was just less efficient than I usually am. I still got everything done by the time I went to bed around 11:30, which was great. It rained on and off most of the day yesterday, with with sun appearing occasionally and sporadically. I left the Flow House around 4:30PM, before I had finished all of my Hive catch-up and tasks, but thankfulluly there wasn't much left, so it would be easy to complete later.

For land work yesterday my first task was to help Ano unload coconuts (after going cocoing on Friday) from the truck, and then load it for Sunday market. My second and last task of the day was to do a good round of removing organic matter, with a rake and a hoe, from the area that we cleared for two new water catchment tanks. The organic matter needs to be removed so that the tanks don't settle unevenly over time. That was pretty intense, sweaty work, and I got a good bit done, though more still remains to finish another day.

After working, I took a shower, strained out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, made food, then I retired to the Flow House to do my evening round of Hive catch-up and tasks. I completed that around 10PM, and I went to bed about an hour and a half later. I slept well until 4AM again, at which point I couldn't sleep, so I did a Hive round, to use my awake time. I tried to go back to sleep after that, which worked somewhat, as I know I slept again, even if not very much.

It's now almost 1PM, so a great time to end this post, so that I can get to my Hive catch-up and tasks, and then to begin putting together and writing the behemoth that is my 62nd Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update. I deeply appreciate you all! Until that post tonight, and the next iteration of this post tomorrow morning! Onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power 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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