The Three Tables

His language · your language · the model — and where every piece landed.

INTERNAL ONLY. Mike sees none of this. He sees one page, and no model is ever named on it.

Table one · Job oneHis Language

Verbatim, timestamped, from call 768746373. Right column is where each line is doing work on his page — unquoted, woven into the prose, so he recognises himself without being shown a mirror.

TimeTypeWhat he actually saidWhere it's used, and how
1:04:52DREAMI know that I know that I know versus hope I know. It might not work.The title and the opening line. "There's a difference between hoping you know and knowing that you know." Both poles are his — the whole document is the distance between them.
1:57:30PAINYou drive a stick shift car. You can't start on the road. You have to drive in the parking lot… So I'm in the parking lot of figuring out exactly what to do.Paragraph two. Agreed with, then turned: "the parking lot has a way of becoming a destination."
1:45:27PAINFor the past year I had an office in my house and I was in it every day. Trying to figure things out.Same paragraph, as the evidence. "A year in a room every day, figuring things out, is a year in which the market told you nothing, because you never asked it anything."
1:11:48PAINI was a blank slate, maybe a minus slate… all this stuff to do, and I just didn't know what to do, and I was feeling like I'm going nowhere.Held back. Too close to shame in print. Say it live if he defends the year.
1:23:12DREAMTwo paying clients in August and then two every month till the end of the year… it's a $2,500 package.The arithmetic section opens with it, in his own cadence: "Two clients a month at twenty-five hundred… and then you look again."
1:45:02DREAMIf I only had two people a month at 2,500… I would have plenty of time to write the books.November — the books are what November is protecting, never named as a weakness.
1:24:35PAINNot, nothing there yet.The reason the document exists. Never quoted — the six months are the answer to it.
1:42:21PAINNo idea. It's what I gotta learn.September — answered directly, without ever naming that he couldn't answer it.
1:32:16PAINI don't have a marketing plan the way you… It's my game plan.Held. Naming it in print reads as a scold.
1:40:33OBJBut I haven't done it yet, so I can't say it's the right way.The arithmetic preamble: "a plan built on your own guessed numbers beats a plan built on hope."
1:26:37OBJYou're not going to stand out just with your LinkedIn thing.September, silently overturned. He already conceded on the call — the page doesn't re-litigate it.
1:28:15CONCEDEIt's payoff and pain is what I got out of it.The September turn is written in his concession, not in your teaching voice.
1:38:44PAINI'm not sure anything is. It's not August yet.Not on the page. It's the reason for the page. Ask it live — "it's August now."
1:41:00PAINNext week. I don't have a date. I have next week.Closing section, verbatim as prose: "Not next week."
1:02:15PROOFHe'd sold nothing in February… he got his first commission check and it was five grand.August, action one — get it in writing. His only asset, and it lives in his memory.
1:04:01PROOFThat was a no charge deal.December — the man had no money, which is exactly why he got it free. Sets up the buyer question.
0:58:40PROOFMy last job there was national training director, writing manuals for how to do the job… It was my favorite job, probably of all jobs.November, the strongest line on his page. "You have never once done it for your own business."
1:55:07DREAMGod has got an increase. Whatever I'm doing, if it's not increasing, I'm either doing it wrong or I'm not supposed to be doing it.The last paragraph, reframed without a word of scripture: "the increase needs something to increase from."
1:54:09OBJI don't know if I'd be a good customer. I think we can collaborate.Untouched by the page. Deferred, per your call. Handled live or in October.

Table two · Job twoYour Language

Every solution-language item banked from the call. Four go into the writing. Seven stay in your mouth — because they only work as a live move, and spending them in print is spending them.

TimeThe moveWhat you saidStatusWhere
1:32:18reverse-engineer-mathReverse engineer what daily activities create the outcomes you're looking for and then just holding yourself to that standard.INThe turn under the arithmetic. Rewritten as: "hold yourself to the activity. It's hard to fail at that."
1:27:09hook-is-the-goalThe hook is the goal… it needs to create tension between present state and desired state.INSeptember turn, stripped of the jargon: "hold where they are and where they want to be, in the same breath."
1:45:53one-thing-black-whiteOne thing, black and white. Gray is not allowed. Either you did it or you didn't do it.INVerbatim, under the weekly score. The only line kept word for word.
1:50:32you-find-what-you-look-forYou will find what you're looking for… buy a car and you see it every seventh car.INDecember turn — makes the monthly review something he wants rather than owes.
1:50:51nature-no-failureNature doesn't have failures, Mike. The bird does not go outside to sing and think what everybody's going to think about it.INThe close. Protects the number when August produces one, not two.
1:45:22no-date-no-priorityIf there's not a date and time set on something, it's not a priority and it won't happen… 93%.INClosing section, as prose not statistic: "you've watched it be true in somebody else's business already."
1:43:21create-interest-dont-waitA lot of people wait for things to happen. If you know how to create interest, you'll get faster results.INFolded into September's free-thing mechanics rather than stated.
21:33get-them-to-say-the-solution— the device you ran at 1:40:33 to make him say "well, you need a plan"HELDLive only. Cannot be performed in print. Your primary Tuesday move.
19:28five-layers-deeper— the repeated "what else" until the third answerHELDLive only. Use it on question two and question five.
1:21:52selling-is-relationshipSelling is a four-letter word for relationship.HELDHe already agrees. Spending it in print buys nothing — it's rapport, not a turn.
43:48most-money-least-effort— target where the most money sits for the least effortHELDThis is the buyer question. Save it for December, or for the moment he asks what to change.
14:52system-not-learning-is-dead— a system that isn't learning is deadHELDToo abstract for a man at zero clients. Holds until he has data to learn from.
35:55referral-tally— the explicit two-way referral countN/AAndre's problem, not Mike's.

Table three · Job threeThe Model, and its cover

Left is what it is. Right is what it's called on his page. He never hears a name, an author, or a date.

Source (never spoken)JobThe mechanismWhat Mike calls it
Sandler Cookbook · 1967arithmeticDivide the income number backward through close rate → proposals → appointments → dials until you reach a count a man can do before lunch. Measure behaviour only, never outcome, because behaviour is the only thing he controls."Your number, and what's under it" — and the line you don't control two sales; you control twelve conversations.
12 Week Year · 2013cadenceSplit lead indicators from lag. Score only the lead. One percentage every Friday, 85% is the line, two weeks below is the conversation."The only number that matters weekly." No mention of twelve weeks — his six months stay six months, per your call.
Hoshin X-Matrix · 1965page shapeNothing appears unless it connects to something on the opposite side. Every activity traces to a target.Invisible. It's why every month carries both a weekly count and a month-end figure, and why nothing sits on the page unconnected.
Operation Crush · Intel, Dec 1979the storyMotorola's chip was better. Grove didn't change the product — he cascaded weekly field quotas. 2,000 design wins targeted, 2,500 booked, one was IBM.Not on the page at all. You say it out loud, as a story, when he goes quiet on the math like he did at 1:32:18.

The arithmetic itself, filled on your sheet and blank on his: $5,000 ÷ $2,500 = 2 clients · ÷25% close = 8 conversations · ÷80% show = 10 booked · ÷20% = 50 conversations · ÷20% = 250 reached · ÷21 days = 12 a day.

Ask him for every figure. The moment he does the multiplication himself, the number stops being yours.

And this is where all of it wentEverything We Discussed

From the excavation

  • 3 pains + 1 dream → the arc of the six months
  • thesis/antithesis/synthesis → each month is one instance
  • 11 banked solution items → Table 2, 7 held back
  • 2 objections, one deferred → kept deferred
  • N10 device map → why nothing on the page is refusable

From the transcript

  • 12 gaps you opened → the call sheet, column by column
  • 2 silences → your 2 hardest Tuesday questions
  • His verbatim → Table 1, 15 lines used, 4 held
  • Your verbatim → Table 2

From the nine-rung ladder

  • Rung 1 Monetize → August
  • Rung 2 Advertise → Sept–Oct
  • Rung 3 Stabilize → November
  • Rung 4 Prioritize → December, the buyer question
  • Rung 5 Productize → January
  • Never named to him. They're just months.

From DARN CAT

  • DARN before the date → the 0–10 ruler in the close
  • C → three dates, three times
  • T → "what have you already started?"
  • Righting reflex → why there are 5 open questions and no answers

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