If you've never heard of the 10/10/10 rule, it's something that could help a lot of people with decision making.
We often struggle to find a nice balance between long-term decision making and short-term.
Sometimes too many of our decisions are the too long term or short term based. Which can affect the quality of life that we have right now!
For many of us, Long-term chooses are often affected. We tend to make decisions based on our current emotions.
Feelings Can Damage Our Perception
Many decisions can be made impulsively or in the heat of the moment just because we are feeling a certain way; We may make a dumb decision because we are angry, Or sad.
Or when we are super happy. We may agree to more things that we probably shouldn't.
These short-term feelings can cause a lot of damage to our more long-term self.
Whenever you go to make a decision that can make a pretty big change in your life, Ask yourself these questions...
- How will it affect you ten minutes from now?
- How will it affect you ten months from now?
- How will it affect you ten years from now?
Making a short-term decision isn't always bad, But asking yourself these questions allows you to be aware of what damage it can cause for your long-term self.
Heres how I can put this rule to going back to my job. Which was a hard decision that I made? Despite being self-employed. I missed it that bad.
In ten minutes, I feel good about my decision. I see the short-term benefits of having my job back, The extra money, The workout and the awesome coworkers.
In Ten months, If I'm still working there. This may start to create an issue, Because I've been working a lot of hours since I started. Hopefully, I'll be back to being self-employed. Going back to this job, May of slowed my business growth down a little bit, So I may have to work extra hard to compensate.
In Ten years, This decision probably wouldn't have hurt; It depends on how long I stay. Obviously, if I'm still working there in ten years, I made a huge mistake. But if I left at some point, It probably wasn't a bad choice, And I made a good decision based on what I needed at the time.
For the most part, this decision is neutral.
When you use this formula to make decisions, it can help you make smart ones. .
Ones that benefit both long term and short term you.
The 10/10/10 rule, Can be applied to your work life, your home life and everything inbetween.