Hi & #HighFive to everyone reading these words!
I had a surprise today and I want to tell you about it!
@hafiz34, a medical doctor hailing from Bangladesh and working on the health & wellness frontlines of Oman, officially handed me the #HiveTorch along with 353 Hive deposited into my Hive wallet.
This is an initiative hosted by @stayoutoftherz for the purpose of building trust within the Hive Community! I am officially the 311th person to be handed the #HiveTorch!
I think that's pretty cool seeing as we are now 3 days away from the 1 year anniversary of the Hive Blockchain's official launch! 🚀 I'm also effected deeply because this isn't just a casual hand off... This is a test of the integrity and trust within our Hive community! This doesn't really hit you until your actually handed the torch though!
At first I was just surprised! It felt good knowing that I had built a relationship on the Hive Blockchain where someone trusted me enough to hand me the torch along with the accumulation of value that the community has entrusted to the initiative. It's humbling and an honor. Thank you for your trust @hafiz34!
Next you begin to wonder who you should hand the torch to next. This is a wonderful exercise really! It makes you actually think about who you have rapport with, who you've built solid friendships with, who you can trust! And that's when the responsibility of what this initiative really is all about hits you right between the eyes!
It got me thinking about integrity. A ship that has no integrity is a leaky one at best. It's a craft that you could never trust with your life. You certainly would not gamble the life of your family and friends in a vessel like this and you would never attempt an ocean crossing that much is sure!
In FRIEND-SHIP it's much the same. You find out who is looking at the same stars as you are when it really counts! Just watch peoples actions to see if they line up with the words they say. Friendship is all about 2 friends in the same ship navigating by the same stars! 🌟
Will the ship carry these two adventurers of life in the direction they both want to go? Integrity, after all, is doing what you say your going to do." and THIS is where confidence and trust grows from.
The more we close gaps between us and build the foundations of friendship and trust... the closer we all get to reaching our goals and dreams!
This is what we are doing here on the Hive Blockchain. And this is what the Hive Blockchain makes possible. It's our #rocketSHIP to the #moon! 🚀🌝
If your looking for meaning in your life... Building integrity and trust into your relationships is where it all begins! It is within this scope that every conversation makes sense, every action you take takes on new life, and you begin to feel like you actually fit into the community... There's a healthy exchange of ideas, information, care. The exchange between you and others is genuine not transactional... And as this sinks in the whole thing becomes wholesome and whole... Every thing comes together... together on the Hive Blockchain!
This line of thought brought me back a couple of years. I was at a business conference. I had walked into the men's room to freshen up and there at the sink doing the same thing I was stood a man I greatly respect and still do! Stephen M. R. Covey was splashing water on his face getting ready to speak! (Who knew the WC was such a good place to meet people right!? 😆)
Stephen M. R. Covey is a business leader, public speaker, and author of the book "The SPEED of Trust". [MORE INFO]
I knew immediately that I must not waste this chance! I am a firm believer that the quality of ones life is comprised of the quality of the questions one asks, and so that's what I did! I asked a question.
After explaining that I was a fitness trainer, I asked Mr. R. Covey what he was compounding...?
He paused, a bit surprised by my out of the blue question, and then he smiled broadly and said, "I'm compounding TRUST."
You know... those words have always stuck with me ever since.
Now I'm always thinking about how I can "compound trust".
Later I listened as he explained how business organizations "moved at the speed of trust". Low amounts of trust in an economy, company, even country (regardless of its size; big or small.) would always bring everything to a grinding halt. Cultures of high level trust, however, did quite the opposite! They were empowered and super-charged! Trust was the way to #Win!
This is how I think about Hive! This is our chance to band together, #DoubleUP, #TeamUP, and #PowerUP together... and to do it on and around a revolutionary earth altering concept! Decentralized community based, blockchain enabled, censorship resistant, immutable always, proof of brain attention mechanism, owner centric, and cash flowing valuation of content... all on Hive!!!
Not only that... We can compound trust at the speed of digital ones and zeros simultaneously all around the world... transacting with NO FEE's... In fact! In a world where everyone (and I mean EVERYONE!) is stuck in a paradigm where they have to pay to communicate and build trust with each other... We don't! WE GET PAID to do all of that HERE ON THE HIVE BLOCKCHAIN!
AMAZING RIGHT!?
So tell all your friends (If you don't and Hive does what we think it will... Will they still be your friend when they find out that you didn't tell them?! Think about it!) and family (you care about these people right!?) about what is happening here on Hive! 🙂
There you have it... Just some of my thoughts around trust, the Hive Blockchain, it's community, and the #HiveTorch!
But you know what... I didn't want to leave it there!
Because Hive is nearly 1 years old (T-3 days away!) I wanted to do something special! I wanted to celebrate by #LevelingUP the #HiveTorch from 353 Hive to 500 Hive! I thought that this might be the perfect opportunity to talk about what's happening on Twitter right now! (LIKE RIGHT NOW!)
@nathanmars is busy, day and night, building a tight Twitter community of people who care deeply about the Hive Blockchain. It's called the #Hive5000 Crypto Club!
It's our mission to get the word out there to anyone who will listen. (If they Tweet we meet on Twitter!) Telling people about the merits of our home on Hive is easy and people are really beginning to get behind this. It's becoming a movement I think! We just passed 500 people in the club TODAY in fact!
So how about you!? Are you on Twitter? Do you believe in Hive's long term future and value? Are you excited to meet new people? Do you want to do new and exciting things with new and exciting people from all around the globe?
Then maybe think about joining us! #Hive5000 Crypto Club I'll make a point of welcoming you personally if you do decide to join us! Just let @nathanmars know that your interested in being part of the club!
Speaking of which... You guessed it right!?
I'm handing off the #HiveTorch to @nathanmars! 🙌
🚀🚀Let's all #JoinUP #DoubleUP, #TeamUP, and #PowerUp for $1 Hive on Hive's 1 year launch anniversary date!🚀🚀 March 20, 2021!!! And let's all do it at the speed of trust because trust can fuel any mission to the moon!🌝
🙌 Everybody! #HighFive Everybody! 🙌
@wil.metcalfe
Certified Personal Trainer
Fitness Entrepreneur
@Actifit
@AdventureReady
@BeachReady
As well, I am a #HighFive collaborator with @NathanMars on Twitter and the creative mind behind the WIN SYSTEM. 🙌
Limited edition #NFT by @pacolimited depicting @nathanmars and myself boosting to the moon in #rocketSHIPS! It's over the top but the timing couldn't be better right!?
Nice! Power up 🤗
Thank you very much for the exchange ,have a good day and a great mood
Thank you @nataly2317! Your comments put me in a good mood! Thank you for taking the time to connect around the #HiveTorch!
Wow! From 353 to 500!! A huge jump! Looks like my choice wasn't a bad one :)
Let’s do this
Nice, PowerUp! I saw a torch once before, might actually still be the same xE
Yeah! The #HiveTORCH is a pretty cool idea isn’t it! I’ve been thinking of starting another torch but more for a fitness sort of thing like the olympics or something like that. But it’s still in the brainstorming phase... hopefully I figure this out and it sees the light of day! 🙂
That's a cool idea!
Great write up on trust, its definitely one of the building blocks on Hive and an important ingredient in any relationship or dealing. Meeting Stephen Covey must have been shocking, exciting and fun all at the same time. In that position, I would be out of words and star struck LOL.
Nathan was a fantastic pick as he has done a ton of work on twitter trying to get the word out, I don't know where he gets the energy , its amazing. I am glad to be part of the #Hive500Club .
Thank you for sharing :}
Guess what Eric! Nathan wanted to give someone else a chance to have the #HiveTorch (as he's had it once before already!) so he sent it back to me!
So here I am holding the torch for the second time this week! (I didn't expect that!)
I have decided to hand the #HiveTorch to you Eric! I trust you 100% as we have gotten to know each other pretty good over the last 2 nearly 3 years! You have been a steady rock here on the Hive Blockchain and I really appreciate your thoughtfulness! Keep on doing what you do my friend!
@wil.metcalfe
I included (in the memo) how the #HiveTorch Initiative works but if you have any further questions you can ask @stayoutoftherz. He's been super helpful and really made this into a positive thing for the Hive Community! 🙌
Oh wow Wil, I am humbled and glad to know that I have earned your trust; its a nice surprise. I really didn't know about the #HiveTorch initiative until this post. I did not see your memo,however, I looked around and found the initial post of how the torch initiative works. I have chosen to transfer the torch to my trusted friend in South Africa @joetunex, we have interacted for a while even on twitter where he is quite actve too.
Since it's Hive's birthday I pumped it up by ten additional Hive. My post about it will be up after I post my actifit report tonight.
Thank you so much for trusting me and you can be sure the Hive torch will keep going around the world. It's touched Kenya and South Africa. Lets see where it's headed next on our beloved Hive community.
Have a great weekend and enjoy your day :}
Oh my days look whose got the #HiveTourch now! Its a sweet surprise @practicaleric trusting me with the #HiveTourch. I feel honored and happy brother, now let me go pass it on 😃
Thanks for the #HighFive slide across Paco! This could be an interesting way to promote the piece! Do we have it in GIF form without the slide across?
I guess that brings to to ask a question about NFT’s... once you own an NFT is there any other functions you can have for it? For example using the image as an exclusive one of a kind profile picture, or piping it into a slideshow screen at your office building?
Is what can be done with NFT’s done being developed? Likely not hey?! We are probably just scratching the surface here!
We have now! About other functions the sky is the limit. But for now it's just the ownership I think. You can use it for profile picture or slideshow, but I guess someone without the NFT can also use it. That's the beauty of digital ubundance. You can attach any kind of rights to a nft. And ofcourse a lot of virtual reality worlds are using NFTs.
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