Do you know the 10-10-10 method? So you always make the right decision

Are you facing an important decision in your professional life - and you don't know what to do?

The 10-10-10 method is meant to help with this.

Whether it's getting dressed in the morning or choosing lunch, we all struggle to make up our minds.

It doesn't matter to our lives whether we put on the blue or the red sweater.

It gets more difficult with larger decisions that have an impact on our professional life:

Do I go self-employed or do I even dare to study again?

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This is how the 10-10-10 method works

But instead of worrying your head for weeks or months and shirking the decision, you should approach the decision systematically.

The so-called “10-10-10 method”, which was developed by Suzy Welch, an American business journalist and book author, is supposed to help.

The simple consideration is:

 The steps of ten are not a fixed size, but should stand for short, medium and long-term periods.

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"Shortly after the decision you feel relatively good, after 10 days you may even have forgotten that you made the decision in the first place, and 10 months later it is no longer an issue," explains Philip Meissner, Head of the Chair of Strategic Affairs Management and decision-making at ESCP Europe Berlin, the method towards the German Press Agency (dpa).

With this train of thought, one could

relativize

the

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It is important to use the

, for example: What happens if I quit - in 10 minutes, 10 days or 10 months?

What happens if I do NOT cancel - in 10 minutes, 10 days or 10 months?

Of course, the 10-10-10 rule can also be applied to other areas in life.

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How to use the "if-then" rule to achieve any goal.

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