Hope that you will make it, I was in same situation few months ago, but then my earnings dropped dramatically. Actually they dropped so much that next two months together didn't make $1000. Google is very inestimable, I didn't expect anything special about this month, but then suddenly I started to get +$40 days. So, now my average is $32,89 and climbing. My goal for October was $800 but it starts to look more or less $1000. But you never know.
I did not reach to $1000 with adsense this month. I managed to achieve $202.93 for my first month of adsense. I felt I didn't fail because I kind of focused more on CJ. I managed to grab $397.33 for my CJ earnings. I averaged about 800uniques/day on my main site. I have set up 3 sites in the month of October and managed to drive traffic to them right away! This was my first month with working with CJ and Adsense and I've started everything from scratch. I have found some useful techniques and methods that seem to worked best for me! Now that I know what to do for next month, I know I can easily achieve a goal of $3000. What I did month of October that i'm not proud of: 1) Disorganised- I will write in daily planner each day to help guide me what tasks I should do each day. 2) For the month of October, I was kind of new to adsense and CJ, I think I did too much reading, way too much reading that some days I didnt' touch my work. I was too distracted. 3) I didnt write enough content 4) I felt I didn't work hard enough, I know I can work a lot harder!