Coaching practices for Writing for Better Decisions

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• I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
• After the fact I can never honestly reconstruct what I was actually thinking when I chose
• I keep playing out this decision in my head as if there’s just one way it goes
• I run these long-versus-short questions through my head and always end up doing what I already wanted
• I’ve been ping-ponging between two options in my head for weeks

Practices that may help

1. 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
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. 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
4. Enumerate scenarios and their probabilities before deciding
   Write down each meaningful outcome, assign a probability, and compute the weighted total.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
5. Write the answers rather than running them in your head
   The exercise only counters emotional distortion if the three answers are externalized and visible.
   The 10-10-10 Rule
6. Use the journal to externalize decisions you are stuck on
   Write out both sides of a decision in full — on paper, the reasoning becomes visible and the stuckness often resolves.
   Journaling for Clarity
7. 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
8. 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
9. Use morning pages to clarify a decision or stuck feeling
   When you feel blocked, vague, or confused, write the confusion out until it resolves.
   Morning Pages, Made Practical
10. 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

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