Coaching practices for Suzy Welch 10 10 10

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

  • 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
  • Everything that goes even slightly wrong hits me at the same maxed-out intensity
  • This whole thing will be over and done within a day, so asking how I’ll feel in ten years is absurd
  • I’m staring at a choice and the only thing I can feel is how it lands right now
  • My openings are so predictable and safe that I can watch the audience mentally check out in the first ten seconds

Practices that may help

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Scale the catastrophe on an actual severity scale
    Rate the feared outcome on a 0–10 severity scale, then compare it to things you know are 10/10.
    Decatastrophizing, Made Practical
  4. 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
  5. Apply all three horizons explicitly
    Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
    The 10-10-10 Rule
  6. Open with something unexpected to direct attention deliberately
    Surprise briefly resets attention, letting you redirect it to whatever follows.
    Pre-Suasion, Made Practical
  7. Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
    The Buffett two-list strategy asks you to write down 25 career or life goals, circle the top 5, then treat everything else on the list as active avoidances — not "do later" items. The story is apocryphal and its precise origin is unverified, but the underlying principle — that near-priority goals steal attention from top priorities — is consistent with how cognitive resources and opportunity costs work.
  8. Track and communicate sensory sensitivity changes during SSP
    Monitoring sensory reactivity across sessions gives the clinician the data to pace the protocol safely.
    The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
  9. Assess SSP provider quality and fit
    SSP outcomes depend heavily on clinical skill and the safety of the provider relationship — not just the audio.
    The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
  10. Use the SUD scale to track progress honestly
    Rate your distress 0–10 before and after each round to make changes visible and guide when to stop.
    EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows

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