It still being a fairly new quarter, I spent a bit of time today revisiting what I was hoping to accomplish during the three months of April, May, and June.
Yes, I'm still a part of the "working" population...
I realized that I had ambitions for my blogging activities (HiveBloPoMo is ongoing in April), for my editing business, for what I want to accomplish with my artwork, and for the ongoing rebirth of my rare postage stamp business which is actually my oldest ongoing venture.
After writing down a few numbers and thinking to myself "yes, this would be nice and that would be nice and this sounds good... " I ended up setting the whole thing aside because I recognized that the biggest limitation I was facing is the fact you can only fit so much into a day.
And whereas my tentative goals were definitely well meaning, they were failing to take into account that I would need to work something like 20 hours a day, seven days a week in order to even come close to what I was hoping for.
It makes no sense to plan for growth if you lack the resources needed to create growth.
And no, I'm not a greedy workaholic... in fact, I lean far more towards the lazy end of the spectrum. The issue I was really staring in the face is the fact that most of the things I'm involved in are just not really big money makers... and since the growth I was projecting and feeling hopeful about could only be accomplished through increasing my workload none of it was really realistic.
On reflection, I scrapped all my original ideas and instead set my "goals" to simply continue doing what I'm already doing and remain patient.
In truth, the most realistic goal I can work towards during the coming three months is that of trying to gather up sufficient funds to be able to afford the new central heating system in our house which we will need before next fall turns into winter. Sadly, there's no room for investment here, there's only room for making enough money to fund overhead.
And even that is a dodgy proposition, given how it seems like the cost of living increases practically every month!
Like many people — I expect — the closest thing to "investing" I'm going to get will come in the form of my ongoing efforts to keep on blogging on Hive, and allowing the 50% reward paid as staked Hive Power to continue growing without powering down.
Maybe I should just learn to be happy with that… because even if it's just $100 a month, it will eventually add up to something... especially if I can keep going for another five or ten years!
At the end of the day, my "goal setting endeavors" ended with the realization that you can only fit so much into a day... and I have pretty much "run out of day!"
Thanks for reading, and enjoy the rest of your week!
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