Explore a Decision
A guided reflection to help you see what matters most.
Difficult decisions can become easier to understand when you separate out what is pulling you in each direction.
This reflection will help you explore the benefits and costs of two options, consider how important and likely each outcome is, and see where the balance currently sits for you.
It won't tell you what you should do. The aim is to help you see your own thinking more clearly.
What decision are you considering?
Describe the decision in a sentence or two.
What are the two options you're weighing up?
If your decision clearly contains two alternatives, we'll fill these in for you. Check or edit them before continuing.
Before exploring it further, where are you leaning?
Use the slider to show your starting point. It begins at 50/50.
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Think about the things that could improve, become easier, protect something important, or give you something you value.
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Now consider the same question for your other option. What could improve, become easier, protect something important, or give you something you value?
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Now turn to the costs or difficulties. Consider what you might lose, give up, risk or have to continue dealing with if you choose this option.
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Consider the same side of your other option. What might you lose, give up, risk or have to continue dealing with?
Look at the decision as a whole
You've considered the decision from four different perspectives. Take a moment to look at everything together.
Which things feel most important when you look at the decision as a whole?
Numbers can help organise a decision, but they don't always capture what matters most. Choose up to 3 factors. You can select one, two or three — but no more than three.
How your responses are weighted
This isn't a recommendation about what you should do. It reflects the importance and likelihood ratings you gave to the factors you identified.
What's carrying the most weight?
What was your immediate reaction to seeing that balance?
Is there something important that the numbers don't really capture?
Some parts of a decision are difficult to reduce to a rating. You can add anything here that feels important.
Is there one consideration that feels more important than its ratings suggest?
You don't need to change the numbers. This is a place to capture anything the ratings don't quite express.
Having explored the decision, where are you leaning now?
This slider starts at 50/50 again so the earlier result doesn't set your answer for you.
Your reflection
What do you think this reflection is telling you?
What would help you move forward?
Is there something you need to know, discuss, experience or resolve before making the decision?