Coaching practices for Pre Outcome Decision Logging

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• After the fact I can never honestly reconstruct what I was actually thinking when I chose
• 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
• After things play out I always tell myself I "knew it all along," so I never actually learn whether my read on the ripple effects was right
• I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
• I make these probability guesses in my head

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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
4. Keep a second-order decision journal
   Record the downstream effects you predicted, then check them later.
   Second-Order Thinking: And Then What?
5. 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
6. Keep a decision journal to score your EV estimates
   Log your probability estimates and payoff predictions, then compare them to what happened.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
7. Debrief against process goals, not just the outcome
   After performance, evaluate whether you executed your process goals before evaluating the result.
   Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance
8. Evaluate your three outcomes at day’s end
   A brief end-of-day check against your three outcomes closes cognitive loops and reveals what planning adjustments to make tomorrow.
   The Rule of Three for Productivity, Made Practical
9. Evaluate the outcome and adjust
   After implementing, honestly assess what worked, what didn’t, and what to do next.
   Problem-Solving Therapy, Made Practical
10. Pair the RACI with a decision log
    Knowing who decides is only half the system — recording what was decided closes the accountability loop.
    The RACI Matrix, Made Practical

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