I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1273 - A New Pool Strategy to More Quickly Grow Returns - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, January 21, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

For those of you who aren't aware yet, diesel/liquidity pools are kind of my thing, and I've been exploring, researching, experimenting, and diving ever deeper into a very large number of assorted pools for most of my time on Hive, first for myself, and now for the We Are Alive Tribe as well, because they can be a very effective and efficient means of leveraging and growing all sorts of useful and valuable layer-2 assets. In terms of generating consistent, dependable, and reliable layer-2 income streams, they're hard to beat, especially with sufficient investment liquidity.

Up until now, I've spread my investment resources quite widely across a multitude of pools, with a periodically alternating stronger focus on growing liquidity in certain ones at any particular time. I've been a bit more selective with the pools in which I invest for the We Are Alive Tribe, but I still spread resources quite widely, to grow our liquidity in as many pools over time as is feasible. While this slow-and-steady method of increasing liquidity in solid pools is very useful and effective, it also takes much more time, with incrementally-increasing returns. Doing it this way has allowed me to reach a mid-level of of liquidity in a whole lot of pools, which is excellent, but I'm still missing notable potential returns, so it's making me reconsider, and to shift gears a bit, in terms of how I grow liquidity in significant pools.

There are several excellent pools, many with very good daily liquidity rewards, and so far I've only been tapping a portion of their potential daily income. For this reason, and because I need to significantly grow the income in as many of the most useful-and-valuable tokens as I'm able for the We Are Alive Tribe, over the last few days a new pool strategy has been bubbling up in my mind.

On both my own account, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, I've decided to focus on one important pool at a time with my daily and weekly allotment of investment SWAP.HIVE, to boost my and our liquidity positions to the very top of the chosen pools, thus maximizing token income and earned pool fees. The daily liquidity rewards for some of these pools are astounding at the higher levels, so that's for what I'll be shooting.

The first pools that come to mind for this new focused methodology are the HASHSCORE:SWAP.HIVE, ATX:SWAP.HIVE, ATF:SWAP.HIVE, AEGIS:SWAP.HIVE, DVS:DHEDGE, SWAP.HIVE:PWR, CCC:MUSIC, CCC:PHOTO, CCC:SCHOLAR, CCC:WIT, SWAP.HIVE:PIMP, SWAP.HIVE:TRADE, and SWAP.HIVE:TRIBE, with others, like all the CENT pools, queued up after pool-king status has been achieved in the above-mentioned pools. I, and we, need substantial consistent-and-relaiable income streams in a whole host of significant tokens, so I'm going to make it happen.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little before 2:30PM, with photography for my posts, that's usually done first, being completed later in the day, due to uninspiring photographic weather. I ended up doing a quick food-supply run to Tutu's to restock the Landing, and upon returning to the Landing, I felt inspired to make another batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn, which I shared over an enjoyable conversation with Alex (a fellow who's been living at GaiaYoga for a while now). While I had intended to get into the fenced garden to continue with necessary weeding there, that didn't materialize, with me instead finding myself in another enjoyable conversation with Becca (a young woman who's staying here for an indeterminate time) in Tutu's. Those two conversations took up quite a good amount of time, so unfortunately no other community/land work was accomplished. After bidding my farewell to Becca, I stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with that in hand, I headed back to the Flow House to begin with my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by just about 10PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by a little after 11PM. I woke up around 7AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so it's a lovely time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition 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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