I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1055 - Strategic Investing, with Heart - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, June 17, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

So often investing is seen as a cold and calculating affair, with pure numbers and profits being the sole orienting parameters, and yet it doesn't at all have to be that way, and from my perspective it shouldn't be. Profitability must always be balanced with an equal focus on the greater good of those around us, and with whom we're connected. Investment in human capital is just as important as it is in asset capital, and as such, our investments should always be done with love, care, and heart.

The longer I've been involved in asset leveraging and investing, and the deeper that I've gone into it, the more it has become clear to me that the best possible way to invest assets is to use them to generate as much Maximum Mutual Benefit for everyone as possible, myself included. Some investments may grow our assets more quickly, but how well do they grow the community, and the whole Ecosystem, of which we are a part?

One of the incredible things about Hive is that there are so many different ways to invest that are mutually beneficial, which is not surprising when we consider that the whole framework of Hive is created around this concept of mutual benefit. Hive is an extraordinary Ecosystem for investmenting, and leveraging and growing assets, as well as making it possible to use what we generate and earn to assist, help, and support Hivers worldwide, and easefully, as a matter of course. That's pretty nifty, I must say.

Hive is all about getting involved with all levels of the community and the Ecosystem, not simply investing and running. We are meant to grow our assets as we grow our relationships, communities, and the Ecosystem as a whole at the same time. Hive is, and it should be, and investment of Love.

Yes, we always want to invest and leverage our assets in the most efficient, effective, and the best manner possible, of course, but we must do so with awareness, understanding, and care for the community-created Ecosystem into which we're investing, and for our fellow Hivers who share and co-create it with us. We really are all in this together, we need each other, and our investments should reflect that. Invest with heart, my friends, it's the only way to make our investments truly matter.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, a little before 2:30PM, putting my attention first on some photography for my posts. Once I had a good batch, I went to Tutu's to get some food supplies for the Landing, after which I undertook the task of tracing out the conduit with the ethernet cable between Halai Hapai/Quarta Quarters and Power Sharing, and changing the ethernet head for that connection in Power Sharing for the second time, in my so-far unsuccessful efforts to restore internet connectivity to Halai Hapai. After another round of internet troubleshooting, I collected a half gallon of coconut water from 6 coconuts, to switch over my first batch of kefir from raw cow milk, since Daisy is no longer being milked, to coconut water. I haven't done that before, so we'll see how it goes. When I finally had that done, I helped Ano measure the distance between the Bali Hut and Halai Hapai, to see how much new conduit would be needed to reroute the internet connection to Halai Hapai. With that completed, I went to the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then I made my way back to the Flow House, to gently dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done quite early again, by just before 9:45PM, and after some asset management, checking in on Blurt, and a long scan of my X feed, I went to bed around 11:45PM. I woke up quite late, about 8AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, getting out of bed around 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then heading back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12PM, so an excellent time to end this post, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before preparing for a session scheduled for 1:30PM. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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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