Coaching practices for Hedgehog 10 Year Plan

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I know the thing I’ve committed to will take years of patient momentum to really pay off, but the constant short-term pressure keeps tempting me to chase quick wins instead
• I keep waiting for one clean lightning-bolt answer about my purpose before I’ll commit to anything, and it never comes
• I finally know what I should be focused on, but good opportunities keep landing in my lap and I say yes to all of them
• This whole thing will be over and done within a day, so asking how I’ll feel in ten years is absurd
• I’m chasing too many things at once and my effort’s scattered everywhere

Practices that may help

1. The Hedgehog Concept
   Jim Collins’s Hedgehog Concept, drawn from his Good to Great research, proposes that enduring excellence comes from focusing on the intersection of three circles: what you can be world-class at, what drives your economic engine, and what you are deeply passionate about. It is a strategic framework derived from systematic study of high-performing companies; its application to individual purpose is widely used but the evidence base is organizational, not individual.
2. Commit to the long game the Hedgehog requires
   Expect the intersection to take years to inhabit fully — and protect it against urgency and short-term pressure.
   The Hedgehog Concept
3. Treat the Hedgehog as a hypothesis that iterates
   Write your best current intersection as a testable hypothesis and update it when new information arrives.
   The Hedgehog Concept
4. Ruthlessly prune commitments outside the intersection
   Once the intersection is visible, say no to opportunities — even good ones — that fall outside it.
   The Hedgehog Concept
5. Calibrate the time horizons to the actual decision
   10-10-10 is a template — adjust the horizons to the real timescale of the choice.
   The 10-10-10 Rule
6. Find your hedgehog concept — the one thing you can be best at
   Identify the intersection of what you can be best at, what drives your economic engine, and what you are deeply passionate about.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
7. The 10-10-10 Rule
   Suzy Welch's 10-10-10 rule asks you to evaluate a decision through three time horizons: how will I feel about this in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years? It is a heuristic for countering short-term emotional reactions by making long-run consequences more cognitively vivid. Evidence for the technique specifically is limited, but it draws on well-supported research on temporal discounting and affective forecasting.
8. Map your three circles honestly
   Separately answer each circle — passion, best-at, economic engine — before looking for the intersection.
   The Hedgehog Concept
9. Commit to only a few goals per cycle
   Choose one to three goals for the 12 weeks so effort concentrates instead of scattering.
   The 12 Week Year, Made Practical
10. Stress-test your withdrawal plan against multiple scenarios
    Run your plan against the worst historical periods — not just the average — before retiring.
    The 4 Percent Rule, Made Practical

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