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Intense vs Sustainable Mode
<p><br/></p><p>My color palette used to be black and white.</p><p>My decisions—binary. No gray. No in-between.</p><p>The younger me thrived at the extremes.</p><p>It was easy to do hard things.</p><p>Water fasts for 14 days? Done.</p><p>Keto for months? No problem.</p><p>Back-to-back intense projects? Bring it on.</p><p>But intensity is expensive.</p><p>Over time, I learnt it from the brain itself—</p><p>The focused, intense mode is not the default.</p><p>It’s short-lived by design.</p><p>Living in high gear all the time wears down the system—and everyone around it.</p><p>So I evolved a simple rule:</p><p>If a project is under 4 weeks, intense mode is fine.</p><p>Anything longer? It goes into sustainable mode.</p><p>Sustainable mode is kind to the body. Gentle on the mind.</p><p>It honors the truth that life isn’t paused just because a project is on.</p><p>Life is the platform. Work runs within it.</p><p><br/></p><p>If the Goggins in you wants to run 90 minutes a day—start with 10.</p><p>Progressively overload.</p><p>Strengthen the habit.</p><p>Don’t crash in the name of progress.</p><p>Since 2025, I’ve added a new ritual:</p><p>I pick projects—and assign a mode.</p><p>Long-term ones get ease. No more heroic runs.</p><p>No more fasting extremes.</p><p>No more sleeping less or pushing more.</p><p><br/></p><p>So here’s a question for you:</p><p>Which of your projects are in intense mode?</p><p>Which ones are in sustainable mode?</p><p><br/></p><p>If you don’t know yet, start by choosing the mode.</p><p>Because how you approach a project matters just as much as the project itself.</p>
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