Shift from sporadic high-energy launches to steady, sustainable work by breaking targets into time blocks, creating detailed plans, and mapping outreach. The speaker shows how launch mode burns energy fast while sustain mode flattens the curve, and applies the same framework to job searching with repeatable steps and predefined questions.
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Talk about sustaining and sustain a movement. Is that me? That means that the movement continues without interruption. Okay. So in that sense, you are not in a sustain mode on the projects. Okay. Okay. So you have to, like, you have to make another choice to get in the sustain mode, which totally makes sense. So, so part of this too is, but also thinking about what you're in, the mode you're in. The POV paper doesn't lend itself to rhythm, but the search does. These research certainly requires rigor and rhythm. Right. So, so it's like, okay, I have a target. So if you have a list of targets, And then creating the project out of that. Here's this list of targets. And if you knew a little bit more about how much time each one would take to research, like, oh, I'm gonna take 7 hours, 6 hours, whatever it is to research. Gosh, now I'm not thinking about it. It's like, I'm gonna research. These are the things I'm gonna look at. Now you have a little bit more like, oh, break it down as a work plan, right? So I'm gonna look at annual reports. I'm gonna do this part, and I'm gonna produce— this is what I do for myself. I'm gonna produce my own report to my business and say, I'm gonna produce this report when I, when I do a research on, on a company. This is the report I produce. It's like, oh, okay. So now it's not just hip shoots like, oh, this company came up. I'm gonna look at that and I'm gonna throw some time at it. It's like, Oh, now I know that it's gonna take X amount of time to research them. And then, you know, create a power map, create a, you know, look at who you're gonna contact. You're gonna go out to LinkedIn. What's the campaign look like? All those kinds of things. The more you think about that, the more you can make those a rhythm attached to that. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. Instead of it being, and I wrote down here, you know, you're in, start a mode. When you know you're in start mode or launch mode, when everything is heroic acts. When everything is what? Heroic acts. Oh, right, right. Exactly. Right. So, so, you know, and this is, this is the diagram. This is the activation energy. So, you know, you're up at this top end here, you're at the top end, and everything takes a lot of energy, and then it takes this heroic act, and then it comes back down, and it takes a heroic act, and you come back down, and all this kind of stuff. It's like Okay, this is really consuming a lot of energy. But even in the job search mode, you can get in a better mode of sustainability on that. If you go like, I know what this looks like. I know a new company comes up. This is the model. This is the engine I put it through. So somebody calls you back and says, oh, we want to interview you. And you're like, great. You're now in Chuck Tyner's Phase 2B. Of job search. To be means I'm gonna go out to LinkedIn, I'm gonna do these things, and this is what I'm gonna prepare. Here's my intentional interaction plan for the first conversation. These are the questions I ask. This is what my project looks like. See how this could be so much more routine in a good way rather than, oh my gosh, they called. Heroic act. And now you have to like, I can't have dinner tonight, honey, because I'm working on this thing. And it's like, okay. Yeah. So in some sense, even, you know, this, this, the job search part can turn into a sustainable versus— Yeah. I feel like I'm in sustain mode on that. Oh, that's good. That's good, right?
