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Balanced Breath in the Waiting Room
In a waiting room before a hard meeting: discreet 5-5 breath for 4 min.
Social
4-7-8 Breath Before the Event
5 min before the event, do 4 cycles of 4-inhale, 7-hold, 8-exhale — your nervous system calms.
Psychological
Pre-Sleep 4-7-8 Breath
Inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8 — repeat 4 times. Hardest people sleep.
Psychological
Pre-Sleep Brain Dump
Write everything on your mind on paper 10 min before sleep — empties it.
Professional
Eat the Frog
Hardest task is your first morning act — before email, before everything.
Professional
Difficult Feedback Rehearsal
Before tough talk, role-play as recipient and respond to your script — uncover blow-up points.
Leadership
Scenario Planning: 4 Possible Futures
Instead of predicting one future, write 4 radically different scenarios. Your plan survives all four.
Leadership
Town-Hall Q&A Preparation Technique
Before any open forum, write the 10 hardest expected questions and answer them in writing — never improvise live.
Professional
Ask Before You Give
Before giving feedback, ask recipient what type of feedback they want this week.
Psychological
Three Good Things
Before sleep, write 3 good things and reason for each.
Administrative
Pre-Mortem Protocol
Imagine the project failed entirely a year from now; list 7 plausible reasons before starting.
Administrative
Managing the Difficult Stakeholder
Before labeling someone "difficult", diagnose the specific type: are they anxious, ignored, or genuinely conflicted in interest?
Psychological
RAIN Meditation
Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture — four steps to heal a hard emotion.
Parenting
Co-Regulation Before Correction
When child melts down, step one = your own 4 breaths. You can't calm someone you're igniting with.
Administrative
Facilitate "Write Before Speak"
For every group decision: 3 minutes of silent individual writing before any discussion.
Social
Monthly No-Occasion Spontaneous Meet
Call a friend with no reason once a month and suggest a meet within the next 12 hours.
Digital & AI
In-Person Priority Over Digital
For every 3 important digital chats with someone, schedule one real meeting.
Professional
Pre-Mortem
Before executing decision, imagine it failed in a year, enumerate most likely failure causes.
Social
DESC Script for a Tough Conversation
Write four sentences: Describe the behavior, Express the impact, Specify the change, Consequences.
Social
Prep First Mentor Meeting
Prep your first mentor meeting with GROW + one single specific question.
Social
Aligning Your Shared Future Vision
Draw a 5-year timeline together and compare divergence points before they become a sudden collision.
Leadership
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Pre-Mortem: Imagining the Decision Failed
Before committing to a big decision, imagine it failed a year from now and list three primary causes.
Leadership
Three Horizons: Balancing Today and Tomorrow
Allocate investment and leadership time across running today's business, scaling emerging ventures, and seeding tomorrow's.
Leadership
Anatomy of a Difficult Conversation (Stone & Heen)
3 conversations within every difficult one: "what happened", "feelings", "identity". Separate them and succeed.
Leadership
Pretotyping: Test Idea Before Building
Before building full product, test with "fake prototype" (10× simpler than MVP). Saves months + tens of thousands.
Digital & AI
Plan Before Execute: Outline Then Run
Ask the model to write a numbered plan first and wait for your approval before executing.
Psychological
Dark Hour Before Sleep
Hour before sleep: no blue light, no screens — body makes melatonin.
Psychological
Morning Sun 10 Min
Morning sun in eyes (not direct) 10 min — sets biological clock.
Professional
Tomorrow Tonight
Before sleep, plan tomorrow — saves morning willpower.
Professional
Slide-Last Writing
Write conclusion and message before opening PowerPoint — saves 70%.
Professional
Pre-Stage Breathing
5 deep breaths before stage — calms nervous system.
Social
Silent Loving-Kindness for a Difficult Person
Silently repeat four well-wishes toward a person who upsets you, even if you do not feel it at first.
Social
Verify Before Concluding
Before judging intent, call and ask — avoid 80% of misunderstandings.
Administrative
Project Pre-Mortem
Before starting, imagine the project failed in six months and write down why.
Administrative
Stakeholder Map Before Delegating
Before delegating a sensitive task, map who must know and who must agree.
Administrative
24-Hour Pause Before Big Decisions
Any decision over 5000 SAR or 5 hours of impact — wait 24 hours before executing.
Administrative
Exit-Clause Review Before Signing
Before signing: exit options? notice? penalties? data handoff?
Leadership
Listening Before Advising: The 3:1 Rule
In every leadership conversation, listen 3 minutes for every 1 you speak. Advice after understanding, not before.
Digital & AI
Sensitive Data Redaction Before Prompting
Before pasting anything in AI: redact names, numbers, emails, financial data.
Professional
Pre-Mortem Analysis
Imagine your decision failed a year from now and write the reasons today — preventing 70% of catastrophes.
Social
Box Breath Before a Talk
4-4-4-4 for 8 cycles — calm focus starts at the breath.
Administrative
Tribal Knowledge Audit
List "things only X knows" — each is risk if they leave.
Leadership
10-10-10 Decision Rule (Suzy Welch)
Before any hard choice, ask: what is the consequence in 10 minutes? 10 months? 10 years?
Leadership
Build a Hard Conversation with DESC
4 steps: Describe (situation), Express (impact), Specify (change), Consequences (outcomes).
Social
Read a Colleague's Culture via Hofstede
Before meeting a colleague from a new culture, read his country's 6 Hofstede dimensions.
Psychological
10-Min Body Scan
Move attention from feet to head, noticing each area without changing it.
Social
Validate the Feeling Before Advice
Name your speaker's feeling and confirm it is reasonable, before you propose any solution.
Social
Four-Part Apology
Name the act, acknowledge impact, commit to change, ask for repair — an apology that mends.
Administrative
Future-State Value-Stream Map
After understanding current state: draw the "after" version and steps to get there.
Leadership
Designing the Weekly 1-1
30 weekly minutes with each direct report, following 3 questions only: what, how, where stuck.
Leadership
The Communication Cascade: Aligning Managers Before an Announcement
Before any major org announcement, brief your managers 48 hours ahead with a Q&A sheet so they're never surprised in front of their teams.
Leadership
The Pre-Wire: Informal Heads-Up Before Formal Announcements
Before any impactful formal announcement, give key stakeholders a private individual heads-up so they're never blindsided publicly.
Parenting
Adult Skills Before Departure
20 practical skills (cooking, laundry, car-check, bill-paying, first-aid) teen masters before 18.
Social
DESC Script
In tough confrontation: Describe-Express-Specify-Consequence — four sentences resolve.
Social
25-Headlines Opener Generator
Before the event, generate 25 possible openers — pick the strongest — don't freeze in the first 2 seconds.
Psychological
Letter from Past Self
Imagine self 10 yrs ago writing now — discover progress.
Professional
Pre-Meeting Breath
3 deep breaths before any meeting — full presence vs reactive.
Social
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Five Minutes of Full-Attention Listening
Give the other person five full minutes of attention with no interruption or advice, then summarize what you heard.
Social
Summarize-and-Verify Before Replying
Before any reply, summarize your speaker's argument and verify with them you got it before disagreeing.
Social
Pre-Call Heads-Up Text
Do not call out of the blue. Text an hour before: "Can I have 15 minutes now or after dinner?"