The One-Page Decision

A method for the big decision you keep circling

For the decision too large for a pros-and-cons list: one page, four questions, and a way of writing down what you actually know instead of what you are worried about.

About this book

Some decisions resist a list. The job, the move, the relationship, the business — for these, a pros-and-cons list produces two columns of unequal weight and a feeling of having done something, and the decision remains exactly where it was.

This book proposes a single page and four questions. The page is a constraint, not a format preference: the discipline of fitting the decision onto one side of paper forces a separation that the list actively obscures, between what you actually know and what you are worried about.

That separation is the core of the method and gets the longest treatment. Fears are legitimate inputs and terrible substitutes for facts, and they are almost always written in the same handwriting as everything else. The book gives a practical way of sorting them, along with worked examples of the page for three quite different decisions.

The last two chapters are about writing the decision down before you feel ready — a deliberate move, with reasoning — and about revisiting the page a month later. That revisit is the part most readers skip and the part that makes the method compounding rather than single-use, because the page records what you knew at the time, which memory reliably rewrites.

What is inside

• Why a big decision resists an ordinary list
• The one page, and the four questions it asks
• Separating what you know from what you fear
• Writing the decision down before you feel ready
• Revisiting the page a month later

Who it is for

• Anyone circling a decision large enough to have been circling it for months
• People who have made a pros-and-cons list and found it settled nothing
• Readers who think better on paper than in conversation
• Those who want to be able to explain the decision to themselves later

From the book

A pros-and-cons list counts opinions. A one-page decision separates what you actually know from what you are simply worried about.

Details

• Format: PDF ebook
• Length: 50 pages
• Language: English
• Delivery: instant download after payment
• Protection: none — no DRM, no device limit
• Thirty-day refund on every purchase