Coaching practices for The 10 10 10 Rule During a Big Change

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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’ve got a big move (or a new job) coming up in a couple of months, and I can feel it’s a rare chance to start fresh
• This decision feels like it has to happen right now or I’ll burst, and I can’t tell if it’s genuinely urgent or just the sting of the moment screaming the loudest

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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.
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. Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
   Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
6. Name which horizon is currently driving you
   Before using the framework, identify: which time scale is making this feel urgent?
   The 10-10-10 Rule
7. Use the 10-year horizon as a regret test
   Ask: in 10 years, will I regret not doing this more than doing it?
   The 10-10-10 Rule
8. Run a quarterly focus review to refresh the lists
   Revisit and rebuild both lists every quarter — priorities shift, and so should the lists.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
9. Change one thing, not everything
   Concentrate all your behavior-change budget on a single keystone instead of spreading it thin.
   Keystone Habits: The Few Changes That Cascade
10. Exploit micro-transitions within your day as mini fresh-start moments
    Use daily transition points — arriving home, finishing a meeting, taking a break — to deliberately shift behavior rather than defaulting to the old pattern.
    The Habit Discontinuity Effect

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