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Psychological
Sensory Distraction
In intense emotion, use 5 senses for moment distraction — not suppression.
Social
No Without Apology
Say "no, I can't" — complete sentence. No explanation, no apology.
Leadership
Three Horizons: Balancing Today and Tomorrow
Allocate investment and leadership time across running today's business, scaling emerging ventures, and seeding tomorrow's.
Administrative
No-Agenda-No-Meeting Rule
Refuse to attend or hold any meeting whose agenda did not arrive 24 hours prior, no exceptions.
Parenting
Handling a Screen-Time Meltdown When Time Is Up
Meltdown at screen shutoff is neurologically normal (dopamine cut abruptly) — a graduated ending protocol drastically reduces it.
Professional
Time Boxing
Reserve a fixed time box in your calendar for each task, so it finishes on time instead of stretching forever.
Administrative
Non-Delegatable Task List
Explicitly write a list of 3-5 tasks you never delegate, and delegate everything else without hesitation.
Psychological
Pre-Sleep Brain Dump
Write everything on your mind on paper 10 min before sleep — empties it.
Professional
Building STAR Interview Stories
Prepare three STAR stories (Situation—Task—Action—Result) that cover 80% of behavioral interview questions.
Professional
Pre-Mortem
Before executing decision, imagine it failed in a year, enumerate most likely failure causes.
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?"
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.
Social
Aligning Your Shared Future Vision
Draw a 5-year timeline together and compare divergence points before they become a sudden collision.
Administrative
Full No-Meeting Day
Designate one weekday with zero meetings — even from the CEO.
Administrative
Exit-Clause Review Before Signing
Before signing: exit options? notice? penalties? data handoff?
Administrative
Exit-Interview Knowledge Capture
Before an employee leaves, dedicate a session separate from the formal exit interview to extract only their operational knowledge.
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
Stay Interview
30 min with a top performer, 5 questions on "why you stay and why you might leave" before they actually consider leaving.
Leadership
Decision Classification: Reversible?
Per decision: is it a two-way door (reversible) or one-way door?
Leadership
Pretotyping: Test Idea Before Building
Before building full product, test with "fake prototype" (10× simpler than MVP). Saves months + tens of thousands.
Leadership
Whistleblowing Prep
Before whistleblowing, document evidence, consult counsel, know your legal rights.
Leadership
Whistleblower-Safe Culture Building
Test your confidential reporting channel yourself (not just theoretically) — is it actually anonymous, and did it respond the last time it was used?
Parenting
Adult Skills Before Departure
20 practical skills (cooking, laundry, car-check, bill-paying, first-aid) teen masters before 18.
Digital & AI
Plan Before Execute: Outline Then Run
Ask the model to write a numbered plan first and wait for your approval before executing.
Digital & AI
Time-Blocking with Pre-Naming
Each morning, write a schedule naming what you'll do each 15-min slot — fewer decisions, 2x output.
Digital & AI
Tech-Free Vacation Planning
Before your next trip, explicitly plan a screen-reduced vacation — deciding in advance is far easier than resisting in the moment mid-trip.
Psychological
Dark Hour Before Sleep
Hour before sleep: no blue light, no screens — body makes melatonin.
Psychological
Mountain Meditation
Imagine self as mountain — storms pass, you remain.
Psychological
Three Good Things
Before sleep, write 3 good things and reason for each.
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.
Professional
Reversible Sort
Sort 10 upcoming decisions into reversible/irreversible columns and set their speed.
Professional
Ask Before You Give
Before giving feedback, ask recipient what type of feedback they want this week.
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
Pre-Mortem Protocol
Imagine the project failed entirely a year from now; list 7 plausible reasons before starting.
Administrative
24-Hour Pause Before Big Decisions
Any decision over 5000 SAR or 5 hours of impact — wait 24 hours before executing.
Leadership
Scenario Planning: 4 Possible Futures
Instead of predicting one future, write 4 radically different scenarios. Your plan survives all four.
Digital & AI
Sensitive Data Redaction Before Prompting
Before pasting anything in AI: redact names, numbers, emails, financial data.
Digital & AI
Parents Modeling Phone-Free Meals
Before asking your child to put their phone away at the table, put yours away first — modeling beats any spoken rule.
Digital & AI
Family Screen-Time Transparency Dashboard Habit
The whole family (parents and children) shares the weekly screen-time report openly — mutual transparency ends the "the rule is just for me" feeling.
Administrative
Post-Delegation Time Tracking
For one month, measure: how many hours go to "following-up" delegated tasks? Target < 20%.
Professional
Pre-Mortem Analysis
Imagine your decision failed a year from now and write the reasons today — preventing 70% of catastrophes.
Professional
Stay Interview
Every 6 months with each report, ask: what keeps you here? What might make you leave?
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
Sponsorship vs. Mentorship for Underrepresented Talent
Mentorship means giving advice in the room; sponsorship means saying their name in rooms they don't attend — deliberately practice the latter, not just the former.
Parenting
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Ten-Minute Tech-Free Listening
Give your child ten minutes of full undivided attention with no screen or interruption — daily.
Parenting
Transition-to-Adulthood Planning for a Special-Needs Teen
The transition from a supportive school system to the adult world needs a plan starting in the teen years, not at sudden graduation.
Digital & AI
90-Minute Deep Work Block
Block 90 daily min for deep work with no phone, email, or colleagues — with a fixed startup ritual.
Parenting
Celebrating Differences Without Ranking
Not the generic "you're both special," but precise per-child description preventing implicit better/worse comparison.
Psychological
Willingness vs Willfulness
Willingness to accept reality as is, not willfulness rejecting it — subtle but powerful.
Psychological
Naming Suffering with Kindness
Name what you suffer with calm language — no exaggeration or minimizing.
Psychological
Pre-Sleep 4-7-8 Breath
Inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8 — repeat 4 times. Hardest people sleep.
Psychological
Plutchik Wheel Audit
8 primary emotions in a wheel, gradient and mixing — visual tool to discover yours.
Psychological
No-Screen First 30 Min
First 30 min of day — no phone. Everything changes.
Psychological
Emotion Description Without Judgment
Name feeling (sad, angry) — without "I'm bad" or "this is wrong".
Professional
Exit Interview Crafting
When resigning, write 3 highly constructive notes you leave behind — to make a difference.