Decision-Making With Limited Capacity

Interactive Tool

Decision Triage Sheet

One decision, sorted in under a minute. Not to make it — to find out what kind of thing it is, so it can go where it belongs instead of circling all week.

What this is for: Sorting a decision into its class (now, later, not at all, not me; stakes; reversibility) so almost all the deliberating disappears.

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The decision, in one line

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Where does it go?

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The stakes

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Reversible?

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If 'later': the parked spot

A decision parked with a date costs nothing. A decision left floating costs every day it floats.

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If 'not me': who, and what they need

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What you've put together

Your choices stay on this page — nothing is saved or sent.

The decision, sorted: its destination, its stakes, its class — and nothing left floating as background load.

Nothing chosen yet — that's fine. Use only what helps today.

Sorting wrongly in the direction of over-deliberation is the common failure: spending hard-decision effort on soft decisions. Whatever you wrote here, it now has somewhere to be.

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