The Decision Journal

Tashi walked you through this in the book. One entry per real decision. Write the first half BEFORE you decide, the second half AFTER you see what happened. Print a stack for your journal.

What You’ll Need

A decision you actually need to make (they come up every day)
10 honest minutes
Willingness to look at your own choices without blaming or bragging

Decision Journal Entry

Fill in part one before you decide. Come back after and fill in part two.

Date

Part 1: Before

The decision: what am I choosing between?

My options (list at least 3 — push past the obvious two)

“Then what?” for each option — what happens next in each case?

Which of my strengths and values does this connect to?

My choice: what am I going to do, and why?

Part 2: After

What happened — how did it actually go?

What I’d do differently next time:

What I learned — for future me:

After 5 or 10 entries, flip back through. You’ll see your own decision-making style. That pattern is gold.

Tashi’s bonus twist: Print 10 copies at once and staple them. Your Decision Journal becomes a real notebook you carry. When something hard comes up, you already have the page. When you have the page, you actually use it.

“The magic isn’t any single entry — it’s the pattern over time. After five or ten entries, you’ll start to see your own decision-making style. You’ll catch your blind spots. You’ll get faster at making good choices.”

What You’ll Need

Decision Journal Entry

Part 1: Before

Part 2: After

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