You mentioned something important: engagement. I know from my own experience that engagement drops over time if you don't push yourself. Seeing how I fell behind on my comments goal, I pushed myself in the last two weeks to engage more on other people's posts, and it worked to reduce the gap to some degree. But if I didn't keep myself accountable on that end, my engagement level would probably fall back again.
About your HP goal, I guess we can say you're still in luck that the price of HIVE is still low. That is if you use any stablecoins or tokens with a better recent evolution than HIVE to buy, besides curation and author rewards.
Speaking of engagement, I agree 100% with you and I do need to be more "hard with myself" regarding that... The thing that pushes me is @Ourpick as I HAVE TO check out at least 2-3 posts per day and engage with authors... That covers my "minimum" engagement with other (sometimes new) users... On the other hand, replying to comments on my own posts sometimes takes a lot of time and I have less for others...
In the end, I don't want to become one of those Hivians who never check others' content and communicate only on their own posts... But, I'm aware that I am going in that direction and that makes me nervous... lol...
Regarding the HP goal, I'm not going into it through fiat but rather through other crypto, which makes it a bit easier... As I'm not pushing as hard as I was last year, I suppose that price movements will not be a huge problem... It will, but not big... 🙂
EDIT. Also, my big problem with engagement is these long comments... lol... 😂
Yes, OurPick definitely gives you the incentive to go out there and discover content and comment on it. But this is self-imposed too, because other curation projects are more relaxed about commenting on the posts they curate. You're doing it the proper, but time-consuming way.
I know what you mean... Hopefully, we can motivate ourselves to keep engaging outside of our own backyard.
Haha, totally get you! The worst feels when I start writing "War and Peace" to a few-word comment. But responding exhaustively in some cases for others who might read.