This is good to hear and if you can spare it, and want to do it then follow your plan. I left an image in another comment in this post of the last few days of my curation (the right side column in the image) as an example of how stake can really start to work passively just by voting on posts and comments. (I love voting on comments, more than 0.03 each time, nothing below, and usually much more. Good curation.
Anyway, when Hive is low I swap out HBD into Hive and power up and when it's not low I hang on to HBD (or get impatient and swap it for Hive). It's helped build stake and that helps with vote value and curation. It all seems straightforward to me. I never wait for the power up day thing to power up either, I do it when the Hive is in my wallet, daily mostly.
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