Coaching practices for The 10 10 10 Rule in a New Job

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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
• I’m staring at a choice and the only thing I can feel is how it lands right now
• 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’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• The very first thing I do every morning is open my inbox "just to check," and an hour later I’m deep in other people’s requests and my own important work hasn’t been touched

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. Apply all three horizons explicitly
   Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
   The 10-10-10 Rule
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. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
6. Respect the fill-order every single day — rocks before sand
   Make it a hard personal rule: no sand, no water, until a rock has been touched today.
   The Pickle Jar Theory of Time Management
7. Keep your Focus List physically visible
   Post your top 5 somewhere unavoidable so every new request gets evaluated against them.
   Warren Buffett’s Two-List Strategy
8. Use each technology for one specific purpose, with explicit constraints
   Assign every reinstated technology a specific job description, time budget, and access rule.
   The Digital Declutter, Made Practical
9. Default new requests to tomorrow
   Unless something is genuinely urgent, new work goes to tomorrow — not today.
   Do It Tomorrow, Made Practical
10. 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

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