Coaching practices for Decision Journal Before Outcome

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• After the fact I can never honestly reconstruct what I was actually thinking when I chose
• I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
• I beat myself up over a call that went badly even though it was reasonable with what I knew, and I pat myself on the back for a reckless one that happened to work
• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
• When I decide I just feel a vague unease that I "don’t have enough to go on," but I never pin down what exactly is missing

Practices that may help

1. Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
   A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
2. Log the decision before the outcome
   Write what you decided, why, and what you expect — before you know how it turns out.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
3. Run a weekly decision review session
   Set aside 20 minutes each week to score past decisions and extract one lesson.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
4. Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
   Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
5. Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
   Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
6. Log the information you wished you had
   In every decision entry, write: what would I want to know that I don’t?
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
7. Track your calibration across many predictions
   Score your confidence levels against outcomes over dozens of predictions to find your systematic biases.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
8. Judge decisions by the process, not the result
   A good decision that produces a bad outcome is still a good decision.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
9. Keep a second-order decision journal
   Record the downstream effects you predicted, then check them later.
   Second-Order Thinking: And Then What?
10. Check reversibility before you fear the downside
    Most decisions are reversible; reserve maximum caution for the few that aren’t.
    The Regret-Minimization Framework

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