# The more knowledge, the more doubts!
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### Grateful to the community! 
Lately, through my many blogging, and the fantastic rewards I received from the community (for which I am very grateful), my hive payouts have risen to unprecedented heights for me. And I was busy looking for a way to turn it back on. After all, my goal is set. Anyway, I will manage to earn 1000 euros with crypto in a year. **And of that year almost 2 months have passed**!

### I have to do more
Despite the fact that my rewards were good, I did feel that I need more, have to do more to reach the finish line. So my internet search began. I started to study coins more and more, trying to learn about crypto in general. Because if you get more knowledge about it, you can also deal with it better was my thought.

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### Frustrations
What I really hadn't counted on was that by reading more and more about crypto, I learned more and more, I discovered more and more coins. And, I also got more and more doubts about what to do. How I should go about it? How to get further than where I am now? **I want so much**, see so many coins that in my opinion would be a good investment with a lot of potential for growth, but at the same time **I can only do so little**! And that frustrated me. It started to affect my day-to-day things, it was constantly on my mind and I was really just wondering WHERE to put my deserved hive in so that it would pay off the most in the end. Because I do have the goal to earn 1000 euros… for a holiday. 

#### But that does not mean that I want to use up everything on that vacation.
So let's say that my vacation next year would cost about 1000 euros. Then I would prefer to see that I would double it so that I don't have to start from zero AGAIN. After all, you also have to look beyond that one moment, right?

### Many doubts and getting restless
Well, the doubts were really there… which made me very frustrated. I even started to feel trapped, limited in my actions… the feeling went far! That will probably have to do with my high sensitivity, but if I make up my mind to do something, then I get stuck in it and that can go very far. So much so that even my mood started to suffer, and I felt guilty for not posting two blogs a day. And the feeling when I didn't post any… that was totally drama. It made me restless.

### I had to do SOMETHING
In the meantime I had saved a nice starting amount of hive in hive-engine, and I just felt that SOMETHING had to be done with it. Because by just leaving it there it will not grow by itself. But every calculation I did was actually a bit disappointing. I think **I was so frustrated that I also started to lose reality a little bit and expected miracles**. Unfortunately that is not the case.

### Trading or Staking? 
In short, I felt like I had 2 things I could do to make it grow. Trading, which CAN be a good way if you are really good at what you are doing. You understand trading well, are good at reading the statistics and the charts. But if, like me, you really only start from the principle “Buy low and Sell high”, then you usually do not make the big profits. For that I have to learn a lot more, AND not unimportant … also be able to invest more. And that is really not there yet.

Then the other option is a more secure option, but that takes longer because there too, the more you can invest, the higher your earnings are. Staking of coins. Yet that seems to me to be the safest option at the moment. Yes it takes longer, yes I may earn less… but I also run less risk of major mistakes… or missed opportunities. But then again, once I made that decision, the next question came up… WHAT and WHERE am I going to stake?

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### Stress again, and then **I DID IT**
Oh boy, another day full of stress, inner turmoil and **finally a decision**… What I had earned from blogging so far, and a **very generous gift from @underground** for which I am very grateful to him, **I have today staked in the form of CRO on crypto.com**.

### I THINK this will give me the most return 
After all the reading what I have done, and will continue to do so, I felt that this is currently THE option for me that gives me the most return. The APR percentage is above average here. And it also paves the way to put other coins that I might buy in the future in the “Crypto Earn” program. Because passive income is what attracts me the most at the moment because it is one of the most 'safe' ways as long as I have not studied enough to be able to say that I understand enough of trading to dare to start that.

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### My focus can go back to blogging and the dogs
And no, with this alone I really don't get the 1000 euros yet… but every bit, however small, helps me a step closer. And by making this decision, I have at least regained peace of mind. Can I put my focus back on blogging. Do the dogs regain happiness instead of an irritated reaction… **I can let this go a bit to recharge myself and focus on the next round, because I have a long way to go before I reach my goal**.

### Let creativity flow again
Because of the peace that I have now created for myself, I also hope to get out of my creative dip because unfortunately that is a well-known phenomenon to me. When I get inner turmoil, my creativity is the first to go, I want to break out, feel like a caged tiger, want to break the bars, and can no longer concentrate on anything. That keeps me in my way for a few days, and only after that I start to realize what is actually the cause of that unrest. Fortunately, I always achieve that realization and I can do something about it. So this time by staking my saved crypto, what gives me the feeling that I took a step in the right direction. And that clears the way again to continue my chosen path. 

# On to that 1000 euros… and I will make it!

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