Layoff to Launch

Weekly Tracker

Companion to the lesson "A week on the ground"

One sheet, one row per weekday, filled Friday afternoon in thirty minutes. This one sheet is the whole reporting layer of your transition. Week of:

1. The One Sheet

Day	Applications sent	Follow-ups owed	Outreach conversations (business lane)	Dollars in $	Pot balance $	Runway months
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Week

2. Week Shape Reference (dual track)

Block	Mon-Fri mornings	Mon-Fri afternoons	Evenings
Job lane	Applications, tailored, two or three a day; follow-ups	Interviews and calls	One admin hour, twice a week
Business lane	Outreach after outreach	The lane's actual work: quotes, jobs, listings, edits	Nothing, most nights
Maintenance	Run, walk, gym, before the first coffee wears off	One real meal, away from the screen	One full day off, weekly, non-negotiable

Fifteen to twenty focused hours a week is a full job search; past that, volume mode produces generic applications, and twenty excellent, referenced applications beat two hundred spammed ones. Business-lane honesty: early on the work is mostly asking, roughly a third of your hours on finding customers.

3. Friday Review Prompts (thirty minutes)

Prompt	Answer
Which applications or conversations moved this week?
What died quietly, and is it weather or a pattern?
Next week's single focus:

4. The Household Report Script

Same time weekly, five minutes, the sheet open. Not for permission; for partnership, and for the witness that keeps you honest when the spreadsheet is tempting to ignore.

Here is the week: applications in, conversations had, the pot is at , which is months. Next week I am focusing on .

5. Non-Negotiables

☐ Sleep on a schedule
☐ Body moved daily
☐ One full day off, off off: no applications, no outreach, no "just checking email"
☐ Dressed before the first block; left the house daily

Energy is the actual budget, not hours. Rejection weather is real; the countermeasure is the same in every account: shorten the horizon. Do this week. Then do the next one.