How I Decide Workbook | Make Better Decisions & Know Your Own Mind

How I Decide is a 152-page, fillable & printable workbook that helps anyone make the handful of decisions a year that actually shape a life — and understand their own patterns while they do it.

You make about thirty-five thousand decisions a day, but only twenty or thirty a year truly matter: which job, which city, whether to stay, whether to spend or keep. Most people make those the way they choose lunch — fast, emotional, then justified later. This workbook gives you a place to think before you choose, and a written record of your reasoning so you can go back months later and find out whether your thinking was any good. Outcomes lie; reasoning doesn't.

Choose better, and learn how you actually decide. Part of the DIY & Experiential range.

What's inside

• Part One — How you decide now: five exercises that surface your existing patterns, defaults under pressure, and your real (not stated) values
• Part Two — The toolkit: ten decision tools, each with a worked example and fill-in pages — reversible vs. one-way doors, naming the worst case, three timelines, pre-mortems, five whys, second-order consequences, weighted scoring, and more
• Part Three — The log: 18 decision spreads to record the choice, the reasoning and your confidence before the outcome — then review and score your thinking later
• Part Four — Looking back: quarterly and annual reviews that reveal your calibration and blind spots across every decision
• A tear-out Five Questions quick-reference card for when you don't have the book with you

Format & licence

Instant PDF download — many worksheets are fillable right in the PDF: type on screen, or print any page and fill by hand. Use it solo or run it as a session. Lifetime single-facilitator commercial licence. Built on credited, widely-used frameworks taught in our own words with our own original tools.