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How a Decision Journal Changed the Way I make Decisions (Template Included)

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We all make decisions. And yet few of us think about what we can learn from our past decisions to make smarter decisions in the future. A decision journal helps you learn from past decisions, think through current decisions, and avoid problems before they happen. In this article we’ll cover: Ok, let’s dig in. In most organizations your product is decisions. By and large, your success will be the sum of the decisions you make over your career. The problem is it’s not easy to get better at making decisions. Bosses would be the easy solution to helping you improve. After all, they have the best view of the problem and you. They should be able to point out strengths and weaknesses in your decision process as well as your judgment. All of this is known at the time you made the decision. This is hard and subjective and requires people doing a lot of thinking. So bosses tend to default to resulting, a process by which the outcome of the decision is attached to the process used to make that de

Decision Making | Reading Time: 4 minutes Decision Journal: Template and Example Included One of the strangest things about being human is that we can’t trust our own memories of what we were thinking. Not because we forget but rather because our brains actively edit the past to make us look better and smarter. This wouldn’t matter much except that, for most people, your career is a series of decisions compounded over time. When you make one that turns out well, your brain quietly edits the story to make it seem like you knew what you were doing all along. And when you make a one t

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