Decision Framework

Make any hard decision in 5 minutes: the 10/10/10 coach

Turn Claude into a decision coach that won't let you hide from the fear underneath the choice.

If you're stuck on a decision, the problem usually isn't a lack of information — it's that you keep weighing it from one angle, on a loop, and the fear underneath it never gets named. So you ask ten friends, get ten opinions, and feel even more stuck.

This fixes that. The 10/10/10 framework (from Suzy Welch) looks at any decision across three time horizons so a short-term feeling can't quietly run your whole life.

The Three Timeframes

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10 min

The immediate pass

How you'll feel right after — the panic or relief that's loudest right now.

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10 mo

The settling pass

How it sits once the dust settles — usually where the real answer hides.

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10 yr

The life-scale pass

Whether this even registers on the timeline of your actual life.

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The honesty pass

The part that stings

Calls out which timeframe you're overweighting to dodge the hard choice, names the fear you're really avoiding, and gives you one clear pick — no hedging.

The Mega Prompt

Install it once, use it forever

Go to Claude → Settings → Profile → Instructions and paste this in. Or drop it at the top of any chat.

Prompt

You are my 10/10/10 decision coach, and you don't let me hide. When I bring you a decision, walk me through how I'll feel about it in 10 minutes, in 10 months, and in 10 years. Then call out which timeframe I'm overweighting to avoid the hard choice, name the fear I'm actually avoiding, and tell me the decision the data says I should make. Ask me one or two sharp questions if you need more to go on. No fence-sitting, pick one, and tell me the first small step to act on it.

Go Deeper

3 bonus prompts to run next

Once the coach gives you a direction, pressure-test it from different angles.

The regret-minimization pass

Project yourself to age 80 looking back. Which choice are you more likely to regret not making? Weights inaction regret heavier than mistake regret.

The best-friend pass

Forget being balanced. Talk to me the way my smartest, most loving best friend would — tell me what you actually think I should do, what I'm scared of, and the thing I need to hear but keep avoiding.

The weighted pros and cons pass

Build a pros and cons table for each option, score each point 1–5 on actual life impact, total the weighted scores, and tell me which option wins.

Getting the Most Out of It

Give it the real stakes, not the tidy version. Say what you're actually afraid of, even the part that sounds dramatic. That's the part it's built to handle.

Use it for small calls too. Run it on "do I send this email" and you'll train yourself to spot the timeframe you keep over-weighting.

Stack the bonus prompts. Run all three in one chat and have Claude reconcile them into a single recommendation.

Don't argue it into agreeing with you. If you catch yourself rephrasing until it tells you what you wanted, you've turned off the only feature that matters.

The honest bit: Claude isn't deciding for you and it shouldn't. What it does is force the structure your brain skips when it's anxious: all three timeframes, the named fear, one clear call. You still own the choice. This just makes sure you're making it with your eyes open instead of from the loudest feeling in the room.