A book that may very well change my life, or at least my thinking

I just completed 10-10-10, 10 Minutes, 10 Months, 10 Years – A Life-Transforming Idea by Suzy Welch. This extremely easy to read book is a great little tool for decision making.

I tend to be one of those right now thinkers. It’s basically emotionally-based, immediate gratification type of doing. It also can be called, as Suzy points out, thinking from your gut. My husband would probably name it one of my most annoying traits. Regardless of what it’s called, it’s what I do. This book, recommended to me by my highly-successful recruiter friend, Tammi Ramsey, has started to change that thinking. I’m not going to be a different person tomorow, but I am giving more effort, time and clarity to my decison-making job.

Cover of Suzy's 10-10-10; I checked out the library for my read, but it's on Powell books, Amazon, etc.

Let’s start with something personal. We have been talking about a pretty significant decision in our household for months. Years. Yeah, that’s more accurate. So, years of this decision just lingering out there stealing my brainpower, my time, my emotion, my whatever else is sucked out of you from the biggie life topics. Last night, I told my husband what my final decision was on the topic, and gave him my 10-10-10 rationale on why and how I came to this decision. It seems funny to me that now that I’ve learned this system that every time I’ve decided to 10-10-10 a thought the 10 minute factor is always moo with me. I don’t seem to care about 10 minutes. 10 months, though, now you have me thinking a bit more. 10 years, wow. This is the one that usually gets me. How do I really see things in 10 years? Will saying yes to this enahnce or hurt my vision? For once the clarity in which I go about doing things is pretty darn good. It’s not muddy with as much emotion and immediacy because I’m actually thinking about the outcome.

As for my professional work, it has helped me in an opposite way. It’s put more immediacy to my actions, because 10 months from now I want to see big results. Well, I know that takes big action today! 10 years from now when I’m living my perfect life, I need all of that stuff to fall in place, starting now. I’ve already started using this process with projects, clients, growth ideas, etc. I think maybe by the time I really adapt this habit of thinking to really be my own, it will be a life-transforming idea.