Good news, I got fired 🔥

Hey there, many of you are new to Traffic Alchemy and probably joined to try my Journey Explorer tool. I share about my experience trying to make money online using content sites, social media, and apps.

Note: I intended to send this to you all on Traffic Alchemy, but accidentally sent this email to my Content Goblin mailing list. If you are on both lists I appologize for the duplicate content.

I’m happy to announce that I was fired last Monday!

Why on earth would someone be happy about being fired?

If you don’t know, I have been working long days of 8-10 hours at my job and then working on my business until bed, plus about 20 hours over the weekend. It’s been kind of a grind.

On Monday I was let go from my job at Meta with a few thousand others. To be honest, my reaction is somewhat relief. It’s actually a decent situation that will give me some time to focus on what I really want to do.

The only part I don’t like is that they labeled us “low performers” in the media. I’m not going to let any company label me as a low performer. Not happening. I’ve never held that label in 20+ years of my career.

What I did the first week

This first week I have been super productive with taking care of myself and building my business. I could have sulked, but I decided that was pointless.

Here is what I achieved this week:

❤️ Spent quality time playing with my son on Monday.
💪 Hit the gym every single day.
🥩 Stuck to my diet every single day.
🧊 Cold plunged every single day.
🚀 Launched 2 new features to contentgoblin.ai
🍽️ Launched my programmatic SEO site freeairecipegenerator.com.
🤖 Transferred a tool I bought to my server aitohumanizetextconverter.com.
▶️ Published a couple hundred AI avatar videos to YouTube for an experiment.

I feel like this is pretty good for a low performer if I am being honest.

My plans going forward

I have a few months to figure things out. My ultimate goal here is to not have to return to the workforce. I was running a marathon before. Now, I’m on a full-out sprint. I’m going to grind as hard as I can for the next 2 months or so and see where that takes me.

I do have a vacation to Jamaica planned with my family in about 2 weeks. I’m hoping it gives me a little bit of a break, but I will still have to support my apps while I am there.

I gave up drinking 307 days ago, which was my main activity when I did these all-inclusive trips. I guess these will become health retreats now.

When I return, I’m going back into the hustle of adding more and more features to my SaaS, and I’ve had a ton of ideas on the back burner that I now have time to work on. I was able to launch my last idea in about 10 hours total using AI coding tools. This would have taken me several weeks in the past!

Another note: I’ve noticed that I am not sure how to relax anymore. My idea of fun is working on another side project for a few days. I don’t really do anything else. I don’t even watch any shows. I can’t do any mind-numbing entertainment anymore. I have to be actively involved in whatever I am doing. I do take a break every Sunday morning to watch my son play hockey, which I absolutely love.

I’m also trying to do some physical work by remodeling my basement and the bathroom down there by myself. It helps get me away from the screen for a little bit. I’ve done 3 bathrooms so far and they turned out decent.

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Wishing you all the best! - John