I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1130 - I Did My 2nd Mega HPUD Powerup, I'm Past 13,500 HP, and a New Delegation! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, August 31, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, 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, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, my friends, I did it. I saw an opportunity yesterday with the rise in DEC price, so I removed my assets from the SWAP.HIVE:DEC pool, I swapped the DEC for SWAP.HIVE, I converted the SWAP.HIVE to HIVE, I sent that to this account, and I powered it up for the September HPUD, My September HPUD Mega-Powerup - Hive Power Up Day - 2,747.304 HIVE Powered Up!. This second mega HPUD powerup took me past 13,500 Hive Power, and now I only have 1,477.213 HP to go to reach my year-end goal of 15,000 Hive Power, which I believe is very achievable.

With my strongly-boosted HP, I had some to spare for a new delegation, so I finally added one that has been on my list for a while, @centtoken. I've been following the CENT project for a while now, and I really like it, and I love all the CENT diesel/liquidity, plus HP delegators receive weekly payouts in HIVE and HBD, so I'm happy to have finally been able to make this delegation happen.

For anyone interested in investing in diesel/liquidity pools, you should definitely be in all the CENT pools, as they are excellent indeed, both in their daily liquidity rewards, and in the pool fees earned for keeping assets in the pools. They are very profitable pools, and in multiple valuable and useful assets, so I'm working to increase my liquidity in all of them.

My experimentation with the three pools, SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC, SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BTC, and SWAP.HIVE:DEC, with my $600 worth of liquidity, yielded much in terms of useful information and learning, and although I did lose a bit from the swapping-and-converting process, I'm still very glad that I had the opportunity to do it the way that I did, because it has very-helpfully informed my future investments. Those three pools are where my next few fiat investments will be focused, to generate long-term gains.

Investing, leveraging, and growing assets is an art and science, and as I learn more, I tweak, modify, and refine what I do, and how I do it, thus allowing me to continually increase the effectiveness and efficiency of my investment decisions. My dear friend, and co-leader in the Alive Tribe, @benthomaswwd, mentioned to me yesterday in a comment on one of my posts, that he felt like he was part of this investment journey with me, learning as I learn. I love that, and that's exactly why I share what I'm learning in these daily posts, as I learn it, so y'all really are learning as I learn. I will always share anything beneficial and useful that comes into my awareness, because we are here to help, support, lift, teach, inspire, and motivate each other. I want for the overflowing success of all of us. At the core of it, that's why I do what I do every day here on Hive, and I'm grateful to be able to do so.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive and Alive Tribe tasks, pretty late, and with the day being quite cloudy and rainy, and having a lot on Hive to do, I focused only on photography for my posts. When I finally had that done (photography on cloudy days takes so much longer), I grabbed my some leftover food, and jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and with those in hand(s), I made my way back to the Flow House, to decide what I was going to do about my assets in the pool and HPUD, to get my assets from Hive Engine to Hive to power up, powerup and write and publish my HPUD post, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. Chelsea came up to the Flow House to talk for a while, so I paused what I was doing on Hive. After our conversation, I got back to Hive, and I got everything done by just before 10PM, after which I did some asset management, scanned my X feed, then I went to bed just after 11:30PM. I woke up just after 6AM to the electricity off again, having slept well, doing more asset management, babysitting the solar electrical system and restarting it, making my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to write and publish My 170th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: 2nd Mega-Powerup HPUD, and 13,500 HP Surpassed!, and then to begin on this post. It's now just before 11:15AM, so an excellent time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography, straining and blending kefir, collecting coconut meat and coconut water from several younger coconuts to ferment another round of kefir, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 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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