Decision Compass
Facing a big decision? Stop going in circles. Walk through this framework and let your values, gut, and logic point you in the same direction.
Step 1
The Decision
What decision are you facing?
Step 2
Your Options
List all realistic options — including doing nothing.
Step 3
What Your Values Say
Look at your top values. Which option aligns most with who you want to be?
Step 4
What Your Gut Says
Ignore logic for a moment. If you had to decide in 10 seconds, what would you choose?
Step 5
The Regret Test
At 80 years old, looking back — which choice would you regret more? Not making the leap, or making it and it not working out?
Step 6
Worst Case Reality Check
What is the actual worst case if you take the bolder option? Is it survivable?
Step 7
Your Decision
After thinking through all of this — what are you going to do?
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Once the decision is made, build the plan to back it up Video course.
About the Decision Compass
Big decisions are hard. Not because we lack information, but because we have competing values, competing fears, and competing visions of our future. The Decision Compass helps you sort through all of that.
You bring a specific decision to the map. Then you work through it from multiple angles: your values, your gut feeling, the practical considerations, what your future self would say, and what each option would mean for the different areas of your life. The goal is not to tell you what to decide. It is to make sure you have thought it through from every angle before you do.
Most people make big decisions either too quickly based on emotion, or too slowly because they are stuck in analysis. The Decision Compass helps you do neither. It gives you a process that takes the emotion seriously without letting it run the show.
Use this map for any decision that feels genuinely hard: a career change, a relationship decision, a move, a financial choice, or anything else that keeps you up at night.
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