How To Use The 10x10 Learning Roadmap Tool
How does each family member use the 10x10 Roadmap to move from awareness to action?
Step 1.
Carefully read and review the competency charts for your life stage, highlighting any activity that stimulates curiosity or is of interest.
You will see 40+ activities (on average) across the Ten Competencies for your life stage. In this first read, feel free to select any activity that you find interesting, important, or worthy of attention. The experience of reading through this material by itself is a powerful eye-opener, tuning you into the skills required to effectively navigate the opportunities and challenges of your stage of life.
Step 2.
Set Priorities: Review all the activities you highlighted in Step 1.
Then Determine the one-to-three top activities you want to focus on for the next three months. The activities you select may come from one or more of the competencies
The selection is self-authored—each family member chooses what they want to learn—is very important to ensure that participants are motivated and have a real stake in the outcome
Step 3.
Build a doable action plan, based on the chosen priority activities from Step 2.
Each family member needs to say, “I’m in,” making a commitment to engage in an action plan. Our method emphasizes a highly customized plan determined by what each family member is motivated to do. The plan should be built from the inside out, based on what each family member truly wants to learn, using methods that match their individual learning style and preferences. Create an action plan for each of your chosen priority activities. It doesn’t need to be perfect to start; you just need to start. In this vein, we recommend that you start with the priority activity that is the easiest to implement. Build success by taking actions that slowly but surely move you in the direction of your Learning Journey.
Step 4.
Review actions, pivot and re-align as desired. Create a feedback loop readjusting and realigning the learning plan as needed.
The current three-month plan may need to be continued for another quarter. This will be necessary when the priority activity is large in scope and detail, such as “strategic life planning,” or “creating a video for my family story. Activities that have a large scope may require a one-year plan, with benchmarks for each quarter.
if the action plan is complete (in part, based on its simplicity) then it may be time for the building of a new plan, or moving onto a new activity for exercising competencies.
Example 1 — BOB (Age 27)
We’ll turn our attention to Bob, the Romero’s 27-year-old elder son, who is in Stage 5: Early Adulthood. Bob attained financial independence and is now considering whether his family’s wealth can help him chart a new career path in a business of his own. He’s also interested in becoming more serious about finding a life partner and creating a family.
Stage 5: Early Adulthood, Ages 26–35 (as late as 40)
Let’s look at Bob’s three-month learning journey and his chosen action plans:
