Coaching practices for Decision Journaling Learning to Decide Better Over Time Before Bed

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• I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
• There’s a tangled decision with too many moving parts to hold in my head all at once, and I feel pushed to just call it now and be done
• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
• I decide what still needs work purely on vibes
• I keep being so sure I’m right and then being wrong, and I have no way to see whether my confidence actually means anything

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. 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
3. Sleep on important decisions
   For complex decisions, delay commitment overnight — sleep processing integrates information deliberate thought misses.
   The Three Bs of Creativity: Bed, Bath, and Bus
4. 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
5. Restudy decision protocol
   Use a defined decision rule — not a feeling — to determine which items get additional study.
   Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. End every review with a single resolved next action
   The review is incomplete until you name one specific thing you will do differently tomorrow.
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
10. Eliminate recurring micro-decisions with standing rules
    Convert repeated low-stakes decisions into rules so willpower isn’t spent on them daily.
    The Not-To-Do List

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