On the HIVE block chain we are very spoiled and fortunate to have so many growth monitoring tools which do help to keep you active. If you know you are growing you are more likely to continue showing up each day and why it is a good idea to track your growth. This is a very good habit to have and I am sure most accounts who have grown over the years have all monitored their growth at some point.
The HIVE Real-time Wallet Dashboard is a fun live wallet that has it's dials continuously spinning every time a block is produces with the numbers going up reflecting the HIVE APR rewards being added to your stake. The APR is currently 3.09% and this is self explanatory when you see this in action and highly recommend anyone who has not seen it take a look. Learning how your HIVE account grows from all the various faucets besides the rewards earned from posting and commenting is important to know.
The obvious tool for growth to just monitor your HIVE Power on HIVE Stats and just to see how each week is going. When you are active you have rewards coming in daily and that is the key to unlocking consistent growth. Time and more time being consistent will see your stake grow.
The curation rewards that you earn are determined by the HIVE Stake also known as HIVE Power and also by the Vote Power percentage you have. A good piece of advice is to try not go below 80% as it takes 24 hours to charge 20% at 0.83% per hour if you want to be exact.
I just noticed whilst doing this post my vote value has risen to 7.67 HIVE per 100% vote of which I earn 50% and those I am voting the other 50%. This is decent growth as the last time I had checked 12 days ago this was 7.5 HIVE per 100% vote. In real terms this is a .14 HIVE increase in earning value per vote so 10 votes per day at 100% is 20% of your Voting Power used. This is a 0.7 HIVE extra earnings added daily to the wallet via curation so in real value is an extra 255.5 potential more HIVE being earned and 255.5 HIVE being rewarded to other users. This is a prime example of how you can see real time growth as these numbers will just continue to rise as you keep on growing. Maybe I can achieve an 8 HIVE vote value sometime next month as you just never know as growth speeds up the more stake you have.
I have only delegated out just under 1.6K Hive Power as I do think you are more valuable to the community controlling your stake and not giving it to someone else to cast a vote on your behalf. Dropping a comment and upvoting a post or comment having some sort of HIVE value is a growth tool so why reduce the chances of your account growth by delegating that away? I see too many accounts with no real vote value as they have delegated their HP trying to earn HIVE rewards or secondary tokens by not doing the work themselves. This is kind of crazy as you have now risked your own HIVE account growth.