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有史以来最好的决策工具 　　It’s called the 10-10-10 rule. Best-selling author and business genius Suzy Welch explains how it makes the right choice suddenly obvious. 　　Have you ever gotten the feeling that you’re not living your life―it’s living you? That was me about 10 years ago. I was so determined to have it all, all the time―perfect marriage, great job, adorable kids―that I placed myself at the center of a whirlwind of “yes, yes, yes”. My make-everyone-happy gig came to a head when I had the brilliant idea to make my kids along on a business trip to Hawaii. I thought, I’ve cracked the work-life balance code! But nothing went as planned. My daughter got sick on the 12-hour plane ride. My son got heatstroke. As if those mini disasters weren’t bad enough, both kids escaped from a hotel-run hula class and burst into the middle of my big client presentation. Suddenly I knew the hard truth. If I didn’t make better choices, I was going to fall apart. 　　 　　Rethink Your Thinking 　　Soon after that trip, I came up with a strategy I call 10-10-10: it’s a way to sort out every complicated decision by assessing the impact it’ll have on your life in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years. If I’d left my kids at home, for instance, in 10 minutes they might have been pouting. But in 10 months I’d have been able to take them on a proper vacation with the money I’d earned. And in 10 years we’d all have forgotten that I’d even been away for three days way back when, avoiding all the insanity in between. 　　Right away, I started applying the process to whatever crisis of the day was driving me crazy, and since then, I’ve discovered that it honestly works for every kind of dilemma, in love, at work and in friendship. Say your boyfriend says he wants you to move in with him. It’s definitely enough to get you flustered into saying yes, yes, yes! But 10-10-10 it before you get too excited: In 10 minutes you’ll have less closet space but half the rent. After 10 months, you’ll have less “me time” bu