It's Saturday - and I'm actually doing my #saturdaysavers update on the right day this time around 😀
Image by RÜŞTÜ BOZKUŞ from Pixabay - I chose an image of daffodils because even though the ground is frozen solid, I can see the tips of the daffodil and snowdrop shoots just starting to push up through the soil
Here's my table of progress for the week;
How Did The Week Go ?
Last week is probably best summed up by one word; consistency.
So many of the metrics I track are a close mirror to the previous week, it's wonderful ! I'm continuing to DCA in HBD to follow the plan, despite the pretty appalling price of HIVE right now. I've edged up my delegations to both @eds-vote and @leo.voter and joined in the fun on LPUD day last week.
The only metric which is below target is number of posts, and it's under by exactly 1, so posting this update will get it back on track. Behind the scenes however, despite being insanely busy with work I've been continuing to set up templates, spreadsheets and all the other structures which will hopefully enable me to post more. I recognise that I really struggle at times with writers block and exhaustion, so it's all about creating part-posts when the writing bug hits me, so that on low energy days I just add the images and hit the "publish" button.
Everything else is currently at a nice healthy level, and I'll be interested to see how much interest I get from HBD in a week or two's time.
The LeoAds Dilemma
I saw that LeoAds are paying out now, but I've got a real dilemma about it.
Right now, all my LEO is delegated to generate more of them. The plan was to keep doing that as well as delegating some HP until I had enough LEO to have a noticeable vote value.
But LeoAds needs LEO that is staked but not delegated, with a minimum of 500. It also relies on engagement within Leo (although I need to get my head around the exact criteria - it seems to be mainly around pageviews). I also don't fully understand whether it's only paid out if you have content that becomes Evergreen, or if you earn but at a lower level if you meet the staking and engagement criteria even without Evergreen content.
One of Hive's major strengths is that you can earn in so many ways. But the downside is that it rapidly gets so complex that working out where your earnings come from and how to optimise them just becomes not cost-effective. For example, I can earn LEO from HP delegation, LP delegation, Author rewards, curation rewards, LeoAds, potential Evergreen content, and probably other methods I haven't even heard of. To do the actual maths on all that is a good path to insanity 😜
I think what I'll probably do is buy some more LEO to get to the 500 staked mark, try to write a few more LeoFinance flavoured posts, and see if I can get any LeoAds earnings next month. Although it's unclear whether you have to have 500 LP staked for the whole month, or if it's calculated per day and paid out monthly. So many questions...... any insights would be most welcome !
If you're not familiar with SaturdaySavers, it's a fabulous initiative run by @shanibeer writing as @sally-saver on the @eddie-earner account, where we all support each other in getting to our savings goals.
If you are one of my friends reading this (or just someone who tripped over one of my posts), I really recommend this as a great community that's well worth joining.
I'm normally very disorganised about saving, and the support of the wonderful people in #saturdaysavers has been invaluable in keeping me focused. I can honestly say that without it, my HP would probably be half what it is now.
So join ! You don't have to wait until the start of the year. The best time to start saving is ten years ago. The second best time is right now !
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