We are still in the celebration mood for the Hive learner's community achievement and I am feeling happy despite what my night looked like. I believe almost everyone on Hive knows what we are celebrating and if you don't know, here is the gist.
Every week, the community give members prompts to work on every week. As members we participate in the prompt and it is always fun for us because we get to even decide the prompt through voting every Saturday during the HL community hangout. These prompts started a long time ago and this week marked the 100th which is worth celebrating.
I appreciate everyone involved in the journey because it's not easy and this wouldn't have been possible without first-class dedication from the moderators. With my participation in the HL featured edition contest also known as the weekly prompts, I have learned quite a lot of lessons.
I mentioned earlier that today's success wouldn't have been possible without the moderators' dedication and that's one of the things the HL community has taught throughout this journey. The need for dedication and commitment can't be sidelined when aspiring for success. When these two things are missing, the chances of success drop drastically and things sometimes end terribly.
I have always known the importance of dedication and commitment but success stories like HL community achievement just tell more about the importance of staying dedicated to whatever we are doing in life.
The need for engagement is one of the lessons I have learned from the community as well and it has helped a lot in my Hive journey. The community demands engagement among members and it's very important. There was a time when I thought the community moderators weren't really watching, I didn't stop with my engagement but I was proven wrong when I stumbled on their comments on a member post. They gave a strict warning on why engagement is crucial and it was quite impressive. My engagement in HL inspired me to be active with my engagement on Hive as a whole.
In the HL community, rules are rules and they must be followed. There are no two ways about HL rules, if you fail to obey them, you will get the consequences immediately. HL made the importance of obeying the law mandatory and not only me have applied their discipline to my engagement in all other communities I engage with.
And finally, I need to always put my best into every post I make on the blockchain. After every prompt, top authors who gave their best are always acknowledged in a post and it makes me feel good when my name is mentioned, it inspires me to always put in my effort. I learned the need for quality always, it's either I am doing my best or not writing at all.
My achievement in Hive isn't something I talk much about because I believe that there are a lot of things I can still achieve. I still have a long way to go but every little achievement means a lot to me on Hive and even offline.
Let me put records aside and just share a few things I have achieved, I mean things that can't be taken away from me.
I wish I had the link to my first post for Hive Learner's prompt so I can share it with you to compare with how things are and wouldn't need to read the whole post before discovering the difference between now and then. The improvement I have made is a huge achievement for me and a permanent one. Unlike before, I always depended on images online but not anymore. Although I still use downloaded images but I try to always capture images for my post.
It makes me happy whenever I can guide HL members and it's a great achievement for me. It reminds me of a time when I was struggling and I just want to see everyone find their balance on the blockchain.
Onboarding people on the blockchain is another achievement for me. There is a saying that we rise by lifting others and it makes me happy to help people discover Hive. Aside from feeling happy about onboarding, I am happy about spreading the good news of this great community.
As terrible as mistake might sound, I see the experience from a different perspective. Mistakes are normal, they are meant to happen for us to grow in life but many of us misunderstand them and it affects us badly.
With every mistake I make in life, it adds value to me because I have acquired new knowledge automatically. Hive wasn't the first place I started my blogging journey and so I have acquired lots of blogging lessons and the major mistake I made a lot was the wrong use of tags.
I got lots of warnings and eventually adjusted. Today, I correct people when they use tags wrongly and it's great to see them take corrections.
The only misconception I had about Hive was that, the platform was too strict and this was because things were quite easy where I was coming from. Only story writing would make me write over 500 words in an article which is the limit of many demands from the Hive community so I thought Hive was too demanding and tough but I got to know that what Hive demands is quality.
I left for a while but had to return to take the challenge and here I am today. Even as humans, people see you as a difficult person when you have protocol and that was the exact thing I felt about Hive.
Hive has standards, there are laws you must follow and you can't just misbehave because it's decentralised. When I returned to embrace the Hive challenge, I chose to do it wholeheartedly. The difficult platform is no longer difficult because I worked on myself to improve and today I barely even write posts less than 600 words.
It's been an amazing journey throughout the weeks of writing prompts and I believe the journey ahead would be awesome as well.
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