Current net worth: $400k+
It’s been almost a month since my last update. A lot has happened, and a lot hasn’t happened, so let me get into it.
The $400k Milestone
Today my net worth officially crossed $400,000. I started the year at around $325k, so I’m up roughly $75k in about five months. On paper, that’s impressive. In reality, crossing that number doesn’t feel like a celebration. It feels like a warning to be careful.
I’m not trying to be dramatic about it. It’s genuinely a big milestone and I know that. But the first thing I thought when I saw that number wasn’t excitement — it was that I don’t want to dip back below it. So right now I’m being very intentional about my expenses. I want to build a cushion above $400k before I start feeling comfortable again.
The SUV Situation
The biggest threat to that cushion right now is my work vehicle. My SUV has a bad transmission and it’s leaking engine oil pretty heavily. It needs to be fixed, but I’m hoping it can hold for a couple more months before I have to pull the trigger on repairs. If it can’t wait, I’ll have to deal with it sooner than I’d like, which is not ideal timing when I’m trying to protect this number.
May in Review
May was a tough month to be honest, but not in a bad way. April was my best revenue month ever, but it cost me. I burned out hard. By the time May came around, I was still feeling it. I was completely exhausted and the burnout carried over further than I expected.
On top of that, May ended up being one of the busiest months of the year personally. Mother’s Day, my son’s first birthday, and my wife’s birthday all fell in the same month. I spent a lot of time with family, which I needed. It slowed my work pace down, but I don’t regret it. I still kept working, just not at the intensity I had been. I still made a decent amount of money. Not April numbers, but solid.
The Roof Project
This one is frustrating. The roof project on my rental property was supposed to be done in April. Then it got pushed to May. Now it’s sitting halfway done in June.
I got one layer of membrane on top of the flat roof, and the second layer was supposed to go on relatively quickly after that. But my friend, who was helping me do the work, and I couldn’t get our schedules coordinated. The dates just didn’t line up. So now I’ve got a property with a half-finished roof and no clear timeline on when we’re finishing it.
The bigger concern now is that the project might end up costing more than originally planned. I’m not sure yet if having only one layer on is going to create any issues or if I’ll have to redo any part of the process. I don’t know that for certain, but the possibility is there.
To make things worse, hurricane season just started in Florida. That means heavy rain is coming, and coordinating outdoor work is going to get harder. My backup plan right now is to find a roofer who’s willing to work on flat roofs. That’s been harder than it sounds. Most roofers down here want commercial jobs because the money is better. Residential flat roofs are a hard sell. So finding someone reliable is going to be a project in itself for the month of June.
Content Is Behind
I have video footage from about three weeks ago that I still haven’t edited. The raw material is sitting there and I just haven’t been able to get to it. This is a pattern I keep running into. I go through a stretch where I’m consistent, and then life moves fast and the content falls off. The blog is the same way. Almost a month between entries.
I don’t have a clean solution for this yet. I know it’s a problem. Part of what I’m working toward is building systems that make consistency less dependent on whether I have the energy or bandwidth on any given day.
The Bigger Picture: Too Many Projects, Not Enough Machine
When I sat down and actually put pen to paper, I counted about fifteen or sixteen different project ideas I’m actively trying to move forward. And the honest truth is that most of them are moving slowly or sitting at a complete standstill. The blog is an example of that. The YouTube channels are another. A lot of these ideas are good, but execution has been fragmented.
What I’ve been working on in May and now into June is figuring out how to use AI to build a machine that handles the baseline execution across all of these projects simultaneously. The idea is that AI agents keep things moving, content keeps getting produced, and I layer my best work on top of that instead of being the one doing all of it manually. That’s the vision. I’ve been taking a lot of notes, doing a lot of research, and trying to figure out what the actual build looks like.
I’m not there yet, but this is the focus. The burnout in April was a wake-up call. I can’t keep running everything by hand at that pace. Something has to change structurally, and AI is how I think I get there.
More updates coming as June moves forward.