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After the great run and commitment of 2023, where I managed to achieve a number of goals, 2024, has started and with it new goals.

Although work and teaching Yoga are absorbing me almost completely, I still find time to continue writing and commenting on this magnificent blog.
For this year, the goals I have set for myself are a tad less ambitious than last year's, but still of some significance.
First among them is the Yearly Author, which I managed to conquer last year.
Consequently there are the various Weekly Author and Monthly Author.

Let's turn as usual to the numerical part, and start with the wallet:

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmZtMmwSNWFWMQLVm6HkkSQBNRFbEXeZrkAQAhfRfBNLj8/screenshot_2024_01_31_alle_00.02.26.png)

If you remember, as of December 9 last year I was already at 5,000 HP, however, since that date, the rewards I have not totally channeled them into HP; I have been doing 50/50, so we can consider that the growth is twice as high as that shown in the wallet.

In the graph below we can see that in all ways the growth has been constant throughout the month, except for the first day of January '24 where I did the PUD.

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPHV655pG8MFyNC5Ztht235KYnApY5hiqK1pxz53Ajhas/screenshot_2024_01_31_alle_00.21.32.png)

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Relative to the Yearly Author, below is the Hivebuzz graph with all 3 green bars indicating that they are still in the race for the badge.

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmUyr1Yk4x4YmbkfZwoRrmZ5hC1nhMLWmNSJizodTZF9qc/screenshot_2024_01_31_alle_00.25.25.png)

Now let's see how the averages on the hivebuzz summary increased

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPefbC4EwwARATVz9gij3ULNa1J9wmxpW2wxAyDKNZCAm/screenshot_2024_01_31_alle_00.25.42.png)

The average upvote per post, increased from 98 to 100 and the average reward as an author, increased from 4.72 to 4.93.
The biggest rush was the increase in reward as an author: from 42 it went to 58! A 38% increase!
Most of the increases are due to my participation in the life of the blog through I comments and the comparisons I try to establish in other writers' posts!
Without interaction, the publication of posts is marginal, in fact the purpose of the blog is to compare!

## Power Up 

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Power ups are important milestones in the growth on Hive, first of all the PUD, which has to be done on the 1st of each month: tomorrow I will conquer it without any problem.
As for the PUM of January 24 I burned it, but it is my intention to make sure it does not happen again until the end of the year!

## Delegation

The search for curators worthy of the term continues, and I must say that the search is paying off. Each month I increase the delegations and sometimes change them.
From Hive an excerpt:

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmZFbbSWNik7rD5v1PC72VkpTnHjB6gwpocsh9nkeKf75w/screenshot_2024_01_31_alle_00.44.51.png)

## The Ranking

Last, but not least, there is the ranking. At the World Level we are at 2987, meaning that from November 23 to today we have climbed an impressive 261 positions!

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQNsxCmGA73PbZjaMdz5FRGUuSbSypMBykyvJBEGvjiFh/screenshot_2024_01_31_alle_00.46.59.png)
That's all for this checkpoint, see you again in a month!

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