Creating a Decision Journal

Writing in a journal will help you connect the dots of your journey. It’s a way of keeping track of your thoughts, a tool for seeing and understanding your progress. A journal keeps you centered; it allows you to see fears that recur—and to recognize ones that fall away.

We can represent different kinds of decisions in terms of their degrees of consequence and reversibility on a graph (see the following figure). Among these decisions, two types deserve special attention: decisions that are highly consequential and irreversible, and decisions that are inconsequential and highly reversible. When a decision is highly

Purpose: This exercise will help you practice conscious decision-making and improve clarity over time. What to Do: Every evening, jot down three decisions you made during the day, regardless of their perceived importance. For each decision, break it down using the Paul-Elder framework. Identify the purpose, question the assumptions you made, and an

Making a habit of journaling the outside view and the inside view will help you get better feedback about how you thought about your decision. As the future unfolds, which inevitably changes your perspective, you will have a record of how you viewed the situation at the time, creating a higher quality feedback loop and adding a layer of accountabil