Coaching practices for How to Make Long Term Decisions

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• I’m facing a big decision and I keep weighing only how it plays out over the next year or two
• I’m staring at a choice and the only thing I can feel is how it lands right now
• I only ever stick with things that show me a quick win, and I lose heart fast when there’s no feedback
• Under all this pressure to please people and react, I’m about to make a call that I already sense doesn’t square with who I actually want to be
• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back

Practices that may help

1. The seventh-generation test for decisions
   Before a major choice, ask how it will affect people seven generations from now.
   The Good Ancestor: Long-Path Thinking for a Meaningful Life
2. Apply all three horizons explicitly
   Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
   The 10-10-10 Rule
3. Cultivate an "acorn brain": plant what you will not harvest
   Deliberately invest time and energy in efforts that will only pay off decades from now.
   The Good Ancestor: Long-Path Thinking for a Meaningful Life
4. Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
   Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
   The 10-10-10 Rule
5. Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
   Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
6. Check the consequence across time horizons
   A choice can be good at one day, bad at one year — name the result at each horizon.
   Second-Order Thinking: And Then What?
7. Slow down on one-way doors
   For irreversible decisions, invest in deliberation proportional to the downside — not to your confidence.
   The Two-Way Door
8. Project to age 80 and look back
   Ask which choice your 80-year-old self will least regret.
   The Regret-Minimization Framework
9. Check reversibility before you fear the downside
   Most decisions are reversible; reserve maximum caution for the few that aren’t.
   The Regret-Minimization Framework
10. 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

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