Tools · Decision-Making

Individual Decision Record

A flight recorder for the decisions you own, so you can see your own pattern as a decider

Once you know how something turned out, you cannot reliably recover what you thought beforehand. This record captures your reasoning at the moment you decide, scores your confidence against what actually happens, and, across twenty entries, shows you the pattern you would never see one decision at a time. Built on MASTER, my six-move framework for consequential decisions.

What you get

• The five-minute core on one double-sided sheet: the real question, the read that sets how deep to go, your options and criteria, the trade-off sentence, a confidence number, and both review dates
• A Deep Pass for a consequential decision, with wider frames, a fact base labelled fact, interpretation or assumption, a premortem, bias checks, and a handover point when a decision outgrows you
• Two structured reviews, a checkpoint early enough to change something and a debrief late enough to learn something, each scored on process before outcome
• A ledger and a calibration table that show which confidence bands you get right, which way you tilt, and the pattern you would never see one decision at a time
• A completed worked example, the evidence behind each prompt, and printing guidance, so the record is usable the day it arrives
• Fill it in on screen using Adobe Acrobat Reader or Preview, then save a copy