Coaching practices for The 10 10 10 Rule as a Caregiver

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

• This whole thing will be over and done within a day, so asking how I’ll feel in ten years is absurd
• 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’m staring at a choice and the only thing I can feel is how it lands right now
• I keep pouring myself into caring for everyone around me while running on empty, and instead of feeling connected it just leaves me hollowed out
• Every time I get busy I let a part of my life slide all the way to zero, and I don’t notice until something breaks

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. 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
3. 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
4. Apply all three horizons explicitly
   Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
   The 10-10-10 Rule
5. Tend to yourself before tending to others
   Sustainable tend-and-befriend requires that the caregiver’s own basic needs are met — otherwise helping depletes rather than regulates.
   Tend-and-Befriend, Made Practical
6. Set a non-negotiable floor for each burner
   Define the minimum for each domain that, if crossed, signals an emergency — and protect those floors.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
7. Adjust the percentages to your cost of living and income
   The 50/30/20 rule is a starting framework, not a rule that fits every income level or location.
   The 50/30/20 Budget: A Simple Framework for Where Your Money Goes
8. The 50/30/20 Budget: A Simple Framework for Where Your Money Goes
   The 50/30/20 rule allocates after-tax income to needs (50%), wants (30%), and savings or debt (20%). It is a simple, memorable framework that works well as a starting point, but the percentages are guidelines, not scientific optima — anyone in a high cost-of-living area or with significant debt will likely need to adjust them.
9. The concentric-circle extension of ren
   Deliberately extend the quality of care you have for those closest to you toward more distant others.
   Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach
10. Communicate your spoon count to people who need to know
    Give people close to you a shorthand for your available capacity, so they can adjust expectations without requiring a medical explanation each time.
    Spoon Theory, Made Practical

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