I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1256 - My 2026 Hive Goals, or Rather the Lack of Them Yet - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, January 4, 2026

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 7 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm not sure what's up with me this year. I mean I successfully smashed all three of my 2025 Hive Goals, and yet, here we are 5 days into the new year, and I have none chosen. No new 2026 Life Goals either yet. This is rather perplexing, and a little annoying, I must say. As I mentioned in My 188th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: 16,000 HP Surpassed on HPUD, HBD Back in Savings, and No 2026 Hive Goals Set Yet! this morning, there are multiple factors to my present seeming goallessness.

Firstly, I haven't actually found the time to really sit down to consider and choose a new set of goals. Then there's the ending of the Saturday Savers Club, which kind of threw me for a loop, since it was such an integral part of my goals, and tracking their progress, for over 3.5 years. Another element is that, with Hive's recent economic and financial situation, choosing long-term goals, especially in layer 2, has indeed become a bit more challenging.

I also mentioned in my goals-and-progress post this morning that most of the inspiration and motivation that I presently have in relation to Hive Goals has to do more with what Ben (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) and I are doing as we build and grow our 'We Are Alive Tribe' economy and financial infrastructure. I haven't even thought about how to set goals for that yet, but it's definitely percolating in my mind. It feels like I'm more focused on 'just doing', as opposed to 'talking about doing', it would seem.

I probably will end up choosing some Hive Goals for the year, I just don't have a clear idea of exactly which ones they should be yet. My own account is growing quite well across many metrics, for which I'm grateful, and that's part of the reason that so much of my focus now is going to building and growing various parts of the 'We Are Alive Tribe' decentralized community economy and financial system, which includes growing our many community accounts. I'm mirroring what I do, and what I've created, built, and grown on my own account, distributing it across the We Are Alive Tribe's assorted accounts, as I weave them together into a whole complementary and mutually-beneficial system.

I'm thinking about the idea of perhaps choosing a few simple goals for my account and for what we're building and growing in the We Are Alive Tribe, so two sets of goals, maybe. Oh, yeah, then there's my 2026 Life Goals, too...lol! Well, whatever goals that I choose, I'll make sure that they are worthy of my focus, energy, resources, and effort!

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, including my once-weekly thorough asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, quite late, by a little after 3:30PM, heading into another rainy day. In between rain showers, I focused on some quick-and-careful photography for my posts, after which I got a few small tasks done, including keeping an eye on the generator, which I had running for a good portion of the day. In the midst of my generator duty, I made myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned ground beef, eggs, onions, tomatoes, longevity spinach leaves, olive oil, and sea salt), and another batch of one of my special versions of popcorn, in the Landing, and with some of those, and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I returned to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks (still on generator duty). I got everything done much later than usually (at least lately), by a little after 11PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by just before 11:30PM. I woke up just before 7AM, having slept fairly well, going to turn on the generator again (since our solar-electrical system had crashed in the early morning), heading back to the Flow House to prep my two posts for writing, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, heading back to the Flow House to write and publish my goals-and-progress update, and then to begin on this post. It's now just before 1:30PM, so it's a great time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts (hopefully not in the rain), and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 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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