Something that helps me a lot - mentally thinking ahead when dealing with an issue.
In my case this comes from a TV series about fighter pilots. The faster the plane, the more you have to think ahead. With a jet fighter you have to think a long way ahead, if you don't fly the plane it will fly you.
If you believe that your skills and capabilities are high performance (like a jet fighter) then think like a fighter pilot and think ahead.
This line of thinking was well supported by the study I did in the Products Development Management course around forecasting - and in particular scenario planning. Scenario planning (thinking of possible outcomes and using these as reference points to identify what other outcomes could exist between these) is something that gets easier with practice. It's the system I use to understand what could be coming next.
Thinking ahead isn't hard - just ask yourself what could this lead to? What is hard is learning the discipline to understand potentially conflicting futures and knowing when one or other becomes the most likely to occur - i.e. when to act.
Bottom line is we are all different, this may not work for you but I find it works for me.
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