The Oval Wheel of Productivity on Hive

Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from South Africa and today I would like to discuss another fond little topic that should be useful knowledge/insight/perspective for both the new Hive user and the veteran Hive user.

It is something that I have been noticing due to my recording of people’s progress every week, over and over again. You start to notice the patterns.

Like I have said many times before, if you want success on Hive as a Redfish straight through to a Whale and you are a blogger: You have to be consistent!
Great. Everyone knows that. Do they?

Consistency is Key

Ok. So before I continue. Let’s recap that concept: If you want to grow on Hive, choose a posting schedule – ie a posting frequency and then stick with it. Before you decide something is not working, you actually need to do something consistently for 3-4 weeks before you decide to give up or change anything to the formula.
But again: The Formula is simple.

The Secret Formula

Post. Upvote other people’s posts. Comment on other people’s posts. Thus you are engaging. If you engage with a person a lot or you like their content, then follow their account. It is very likely that some of those people will follow your account.

As simple as that. Repeat this process 1000 times. Then you shall know success!

Of course, if you manage to power up your Hive along the way, then it will be even better.

Now for the New Concept – The Oval Wheel

Most people are traveling forward on the Oval wheel of their waning and peaking interest and reward. The problem is that when we look in a week’s perspective, which is how Hive rewards us for making posts, then we can see that people work well for a but, then drop off for a but and vice versa.

This is because they started with a lot of motivation, and then they post a lot. 7 days later, they are all burnt out. They posted 7 times and they did not yet get any reward.

The second week, they feel demotivated and burnt out and post 3 times that week. But during that week, they get 7x payouts, staggered a day apart. Usually, by the time they have had enough payouts to motivate them again, this is what triggers the 3 posts for that week and it is too late to get 7 posts for the week again.

Then comes a drought period again, because they only posted three posts, but they just recently gained a lot from 7 payouts, so they behave like they did in the beginning and post 6-7 posts and then realize they have not seen much in the way of rewards… And then the whole cycle starts all over again!

Break the cycle with a consistency checker!

Instead of posting 7 posts one week and 3 posts the second week, just post 5 posts a week, every week, for 20 weeks or more! Did I just say that you should make 100 posts?

Yes. Yes, I did. Create content! Have ideas, make things, cook or bake, do exercise, review a book or movie, play a game, travel or take photographs! This is Hive! Enrich it with your content!

I hope that everyone understands what I mean about the Oval wheels and why it is important to see past it, to the real meat and bones of consistency!

Thank you for reading!

Cheers!
@zakludick

Oh, where did I get that image? I made it myself! 😁😁😁 In Word. lol

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