Coaching practices for 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 So I Can't Go Find it Before or Know Afterward Whether it Would Even Have Changed Anything

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• 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
• I feel completely sure about this decision, which is honestly starting to make me nervous
• My whole mind flips between "I don’t know enough to move" and "okay now I finally know enough" with nothing in between
• I can never feel done deciding
• This decision just "feels right" and I want to go with it, but I can’t shake the worry that the good feeling is really about my mood today, not about whether it’s actually a smart call.

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
   Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
   Circle of Competence
3. Update incrementally as evidence arrives rather than waiting for certainty
   State your current best-guess probability, identify what would shift it, and update when that evidence arrives.
   Ambiguity Aversion — Why Unknown Odds Feel Worse Than Bad Odds
4. Adopt satisficing instead of maximizing
   Set a "good enough" threshold before you search, then stop when you hit it.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
5. Check whether your judgment is tracking affect, not the target attribute
   When a decision "just feels right," ask whether the feeling is about the actual question or about your current emotional state.
   Attribute Substitution: When Your Brain Answers a Different Question
6. Identify your intolerance-of-uncertainty triggers
   Map the specific situations where the need to know hijacks your thinking before you can challenge it.
   Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD
7. Label what you sense (affect labeling)
   Put precise words to internal sensations and feelings to take the heat out of them.
   Interoception, Explained
8. Satisfice instead of maximize
   Choose the option that meets your criteria rather than searching for the theoretically best one.
   The Mindset of Enough: Contentment Without Complacency
9. Set a “good enough” bar before you search
   Decide your criteria first, then take the first option that clears them.
   Satisficing vs. Maximizing: When “Good Enough” Wins
10. Test your action plan for specificity before relying on it
    Before counting on a plan, check that a stranger could execute it from your written description — if not, it is not specific enough.
    Action Planning

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