Many founders face this: the weight of too many decisions. This year, I’m finding a better way to handle it.
As a CEO, I make many decisions daily. Sometimes, I’m overwhelmed with the gravity and sheer number that I end up delaying a decision unnecessarily. Other times, I feel immediate regret and doubt whether I made the right choice. 😢
So this 2025, one of my goals this is to “make clearer, confident & more efficient decisions.”
My 2 immediate action items…
1) Read Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath.
2) Start a "Big Decisions" journal incorporating lessons from my experience & the book
My goals for the journal:
- Use a consistent decision-making framework to make decisions with clarity & confidence
- Record the context and information behind decisions to avoid hindsight bias.
- Reflect on past decisions to improve future ones.
My framework/template:
1) Resolution - This only gets filled once I make a final decision.
2) Situation - What’s the situation in as best detail as you can describe?
3) Options - What are ALL the options? Over time, as I gain more clarity, I categorize them under “Viable” or “Eliminated”
4) Analysis - Questions & steps I go through to gather relevant information and remove emotion from situation (inspired by Decisive!). This is the bulkiest part of the doc and probably deserves a separate post!
5) Bookend the Future - I do a pre-mortem on the current top choice. I consider ways to mitigate any risk and open up as much optionality if the bear case happens.
I just started and it’s so far forcing clarity in some big decisions for work and life.
Excited to see how this experiment goes! Anyone already doing this?
