I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #999 - Alive Tribe Updates, and Increasing Asset-Leveraging Insights - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, April 22, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

To start off I want to thank @gratefuleveryday, @hafiz34, @edgerik, and @ivyann, for participating in the We Are Alive Tribe's 4th Anniversary Contest, and because you four were the only Alive Tribe members who entered the contest, congratulations, you all won! We were originally planning to award 5 HIVE each to the top three winners, and 1 HIVE each to everyone who chose to take part in the contest, along with a nice portions of ALIVE being distributed too. Since only four Alivers participated, we decided to give everyone 5 HIVE, and I also sent 500, to each participant/winner, which Rosyel just shared in the We Are Alive Tribe 4-Year Anniversary Contest Awards 🎉 post a short while ago. Thank you again so much to the participants for making the We Are Alive Tribe more alive! Use your awards well!

In my post two days ago, I mentioned that the daily dividend payouts for held and staked ALIVE had failed to be sent for more than a week, and that we'd get them up and running again as soon as possible, and with a makeup payments. Thankfully, as some of you might have noticed, the makeup payments (for 10 days) went out successfully the day before yesterday, and the regular daily payments also ran successfully yesterday, so we're back on track. Yahooey!

I also wanted to update the community on the status of the ALIVE:ALIVEM diesel/liquidity pool. I did finally find out that it costs 100 BEE to reactivate the liquidity rewards for the pool, and given than pretty much all of our BEE is delegated to @bee.voter for the excellent weekly HIVE payouts that I've been using to grow the Hive Power on @alive.chat and @aliveandthriving, we don't have BEE available to either restart the LP rewards, or to add BEE back as one of the rewards. So for now at least the ALIVE:ALIVEM pool will need to remain as it is. I'm working on growing our income in BEE, and many other useful and valuable tokens, so it's my hope that we will be able to get inspiring LP rewards started again for the pool at some point.

For the Alive Tribe, and for my own account, I'm constantly hashing, considering, and exploring possible new or more effective ways to leverage and grow assets, and recently I've been receiving increasing clarity and understanding in different and important aspects of it, which is impeling me to make minor shifts and adjustments to how I leverage and manage assets. What I shared yesterday about liquidity pool fees, and the insights that I had this morning on a quicker and more efficient way to add my large chunk of PWR back into the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, are two examples that come to mind off the top of my head, but this growing clarify and understanding is becoming really quite notable. I keep getting ideas pop into my mind that I hadn't considered before, that is leading me into whole new levels of effectiveness in my asset leveraging, which is very exciting to say the least.

As with several other areas, Hive is what sparked this passion within me for asset leveraging and growth, in large part because the Hive ecosystem offers so many different and diverse ways to generate income, including lots of passive-income, and because there are so many distinct assets across layer 1 and layer 2, there are more ways to create leverage than any other blockchain ecosystem that I've ever seen, which inspires and motivates me to dive ever deeper, and the fun is just beginning!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House,after finishing my Hive tasks, just a bit before 2:30PM, heading immediately to go collect cow food (as my hand has healed sufficiently to do it again, two times per week to start), since there was a community tree planting at 4PM, so I had to get it done quite quickly. Thankfully I finished it with 15 minutes to spare, which I used to take a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, before collecting and transporting the three 5-gallon buckets of soil (that I had collected yesterday) in a wheelbarrow to the other side of the property, to the planting site in the cow pasture. We planted three paradise nut trees (a relative to the Brazil nut), then put cages around them to protect them from Daisy the cow. Once the planting was completed, I returned to the other side of the property to take a shower, make myself some food in the Landing, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House to hop into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I had a lot of them last night, so I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop just after 11:30PM, to write and publish My Entry for Shadow Hunters Community Contest/Show Me a Shadow: Round 370 - Yep, More Beautiful Banana Shadows!, do some asset management, respond to notifications on Blurt, then finally go to bed, way too late, just after 1AM. I work up around 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, starting on this post, then getting out of bed about 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, before making my way back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 12:15PM, so it's an excellent time to end this post, so that I can get to my few other important Hive tasks, before preparing to give a session at 1:30PM. I appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration of this post! 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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