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

If you're stuck on a decision right now, 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 than before.

This fixes that. You turn Claude into a decision coach that won't let you hide. It walks you through how you'll feel in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years, calls out the timeframe you're using to avoid the hard choice, names the fear you're actually avoiding, and then forces a pick. No fence-sitting. You install it once and it's there every time you're stuck.

What this actually does 🧠

The 10/10/10 framework comes from Suzy Welch: look at any decision across three time horizons so a short-term feeling can't quietly run your whole life. Claude runs it for you, then goes one step further and challenges your reasoning.

1. ⏱️ The 10 minutes pass. It tells you how you'll feel right after the decision, the panic or relief that's loudest right now.
2. 📆 The 10 months pass. It zooms out to how this sits once the dust settles, which is usually where the real answer hides.
3. 🔭 The 10 years pass. It asks whether this even registers on the timeline of your actual life.
4. 🎯 The honesty pass. It calls out which timeframe you're overweighting to dodge the hard choice, names the fear you're really avoiding, and tells you the call the logic points to. One pick, no hedging.

The mega prompt 📋

Install this once and it runs on every chat. Open Claude, go to Settings, click Profile, then Instructions, and paste it in. Prefer not to install it? Just paste it at the top of any chat when you have a decision, then describe what you're deciding.

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.

3 bonus prompts to run next 🎁

Once the coach gives you a direction, pressure-test it from a few more angles before you commit. Same decision, different lens.

How to get the most out of it 🎓

1. 🗣️ Give it the real stakes, not the tidy version. The coach is only as sharp as what you tell it. Say what you're actually afraid of, even the part that sounds dramatic. That's the part it's built to handle.
2. 🔁 Use it for small calls too. It's not just for life-changing forks. Run it on "do I send this email" and you'll train yourself to spot the timeframe you keep over-weighting.
3. 🪜 It works at every level. New to this? Install the mega prompt as-is, then just type your decision and answer its questions. More advanced? Stack it with the bonus prompts in one chat and have Claude reconcile them into a single recommendation.
4. 🚫 Don't argue it into agreeing with you. The whole point is the part that stings. 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.