Day 88 of My Journey to $40,000 Per Month
A $699 Commission, A Long Day at the Hospital, And Some Hard Truths
So today is Tuesday, May 12th, 2026… and officially day 88 of my journey to $40,000 per month online.
And honestly? Today was one of those weird emotional rollercoaster days where life kind of hits you from every direction at once.
On one hand, I had a $699.17 commission payout hit my bank account today.
On the other hand, I spent basically the entire day at the hospital with my mom while my dad underwent eye surgery.
Life is strange like that sometimes.
One minute you’re checking your phone and seeing a pretty exciting commission notification…
The next minute you’re sitting in a hospital waiting room wondering how fragile life actually is.
So yeah. Let’s talk about it.
The $699 Commission That Hit My Bank Account Today
First off…
The amount of money that has officially hit my bank account in May has now climbed to $1,959.00.
And honestly, seeing that number continue to rise feels incredibly motivating.
Today’s $699.17 payout actually came from an affiliate marketing program I promoted quite a while ago. The cool thing about this particular program is that it used hard-coded leads.
Basically, if somebody joined through me in the past and later decided to buy more products in the future… I would still earn commissions from those future sales.
And man…
I’m REALLY glad I promoted that program.
It almost feels like past me sent a gift to future me.
That’s one of the coolest things about building online income streams. Sometimes the work you put in months ago keeps paying you long after the original effort is over.
That’s a pretty wild concept when you really think about it.
A nearly seven hundred dollar payout showing up randomly on a Tuesday is definitely no joke.
Not life-changing money yet…
But absolutely life-improving money.
And every little victory like this keeps reinforcing something in my head:
This stuff actually works if you stick with it long enough.
My Email List Just Passed 4,000 Leads
Another thing I’m pretty excited about…
My email list has now grown to 4,051 leads.
That number honestly blows my mind a little bit.
When I first started trying to make money online, I remember struggling just to get ONE person to opt into my list.
Now there are literally thousands of people on it.
And the cool thing is that most of this recent growth has come from a combination of:
Solo ads
YouTube traffic
Facebook traffic
My review videos
And honestly…
I think my YouTube review videos are doing a LOT of heavy lifting for me right now.
That’s something I’ve been thinking deeply about lately.
I’ve had a bad habit over the years of constantly jumping from one shiny object to another. New strategy. New software. New opportunity. New course. New idea.
But I think I’m finally starting to understand something important:
Sometimes the boring answer is the right answer.
The people who win online usually aren’t the people constantly restarting.
They’re the people who find something that works and then double down on it HARD.
So I think it’s time for me to stop overcomplicating everything and just lean heavily into what’s already producing results.
More review videos.
More content.
More list building.
More consistency.
Simple.
Spending The Entire Day At The Hospital
So yeah…
Most of my day today was actually spent at the hospital with my mom while my dad underwent eye surgery.
And honestly, it was emotionally exhausting.
We were there basically from morning until night.
Most of the day was just sitting in waiting rooms trying to stay distracted while doctors worked on him.
My mom and I did step out for lunch at a couple nice little restaurants nearby, which helped break things up a bit…
But it’s hard to fully relax or enjoy yourself when someone you care about is in surgery.
Especially when you already know how serious their health situation has become.
My dad is currently pretty much blind in his left eye due to blood clotting issues connected to his overall health.
And unfortunately…
This isn’t the first major health scare.
Over the past year he’s dealt with strokes, heart issues, diabetes, heart surgery, and an artificial heart valve replacement.
It’s been rough.
Really rough.
And after the surgery today, the doctors basically told us they did the best they could… but it doesn’t look like there was much they could do to restore vision in the eye.
That was hard to hear.
Really hard.
One Of The Biggest Reasons I Want Financial Freedom
Moments like today are honestly a huge reason why I’m chasing this $40,000 per month goal so aggressively.
People sometimes think wanting to become wealthy is automatically about flashy cars, flexing online, or trying to look important.
For me it’s honestly way deeper than that.
I hate feeling powerless.
I hate feeling like life can just hit the people I care about and there’s nothing I can do.
I hate feeling trapped financially while health problems pile up around me.
And honestly…
I have my own health anxieties too.
So when I see my parents going through serious medical issues, it hits me hard mentally.
It makes me want freedom even more.
Not just freedom for myself…
But freedom to help the people around me.
Freedom to actually breathe.
Freedom to stop constantly feeling like one emergency can completely wreck your life.
That’s a huge part of why I’m pushing so hard towards this goal.
Some Hard Truths About Health
And the difficult thing is…
It’s not really a mystery why my dad’s health has gotten this bad.
He absolutely loves junk food.
Burger King.
Pizza.
Donuts.
Basically the full Homer Simpson starter pack.
And trust me, I understand wanting to enjoy life.
I really do.
But there comes a point where you have to ask yourself:
When does enjoyment cross over into self-destruction?
That’s something I’ve thought about a LOT over the past few years.
Especially because I used to eat horribly myself.
And honestly, I’m probably still paying for some of those old habits today.
That’s a big reason why I’ve personally cut almost all junk food out of my life now.
For me, the temporary pleasure just isn’t worth the long-term consequences anymore.
But at the same time…
You can’t force somebody else to change if they don’t truly want to change.
And that’s one of the hardest feelings in the world.
Watching somebody you care about continue making choices that are hurting them while feeling powerless to stop it.
Final Thoughts
So yeah…
Today was a strange mix of emotions.
A pretty exciting commission payout.
A growing email list.
A lot of deep thinking.
And a very emotionally heavy hospital visit.
But despite everything…
I still feel motivated.
Honestly maybe even MORE motivated than before.
Because days like today remind me exactly why I started this journey in the first place.
And I’m not stopping.
Not even close.
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