Aerilon Month 1 Day 1 (Part 2 of 2)

10k Hours Progress (9.9%)

$10k/mo Progress (27.2%)

// Aerilon Month 1 Day 1 (Part 2 of 2)

23 October 2025

Today's full focus will be on completing Day 1's remaining tasks, which is to set up cold email and start the warmup process:

Sign up for Instantly ✅ DONE
Sign up for Zapmail ✅ DONE
Buy 3 more domains for cold emailing ✅ DONE
Set up 3 mailboxes per domain (total 12 mailboxes) ✅ DONE

I don't like that I have to split a day's tasks into two days, but it is what it is.

As I said yesterday, part of this journey is learning to be not so hard on myself.

Found more weight plates while digging around Dad's junkyard, I mean, "storage". Now I can go back to my regular weight lifts. Happy!

The good news is I have 2 new client projects. These and Aerilon will be my main focus until the end of the year.

Earned: $4,466.69 // Time: 8.5 hours

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About

I built and sold two brick & mortar food businesses between 2006-2019.

Now that I'm semi-retired, I ask myself, "What if I spend 10,000 hours chasing curiosity?"

10k to $10k is a live changelog of my journey to see if ~~following my interests~~ "fvcking around and finding out" can make me $10,000 a month. All while living the slowmad life I've designed.

Here's my official first post on this blog. Everything before this date is backfilled.

I have dyslexia, ADHD, and Tourette's. If I've made it this far in life, so can you.

Banner art L-R © Me, Citadel 9, me, me, me.

Inspirations:
Daily blogging - Alex West
Design - JWZ, p0libius
10k Hours - Ryan Kulp

Stats

Journey start: 28 March 2022

Progress logs: 189

∑ Time spent: 989.5 hours (9.9% to 10k)

Avg time/mo: 21.2 hours

∑ Dollars earned: $127,251.18

$/mo: $2,720.17 (27.2% to $10k/m)

$/hour: $128.60