A guided decision method · work & life
Fix the work.
Reckon with life.
A guided method for working through swirling decisions, with a coach that works it through with you — thoroughly and completely.
Private, always · your words are never used to train models
■ Work · B-Mall store decision
Step 04 — Score, then feel
You said the lease cost matters most. Your scores say foot traffic does. Which one is actually driving you?
Fair — traffic is the one I can't fix with negotiation.
Rate your options · 1 barely — 5 decisively
Option
Traffic
Lease
Brand
Total
Convert three, lapse five
5
4
4
62
Renew all nine
3
2
4
44
Exit the format
2
5
2
39
Written into your decision story as you go
Not just conversation
Where structure helps, the coach hands you a worksheet — rank the factors, score the options — and folds the result back into the writing.
Nothing to learn, nothing to configure. You answer, it drafts.
The method
Five steps, in order. The coach holds the order so you don't have to.
01
Name the Swirl
Say out loud what's actually spinning.
02
Clarify the Situation
Complete the map — facts, factors, constraints.
03
Define the Options
Real alternatives, not one plan and a strawman.
04
Score, then Feel
Weigh it on the criteria — then check your gut.
05
Make It Real
Owners, dates, and the option you shelved.
Completing the map
The picture gets complete before anything gets decided.
PROBE
Keeps probing for insight
It keeps asking until the vague becomes specific — surfacing the factors you'd have skipped past.
EXTRACT
Reads the documents you bring
The board memo, the lease schedule, the care assessment — it pulls out the factors worth weighing.
SEARCH
Finds the facts you don't have
Where the situation needs outside information, it goes and gets it — and brings back only what's relevant.
Three ways through
Alone, with counsel, or as a team — the method holds either way.
SOLO
Work it through yourself
One sitting, one honest conversation between you and the coach. Most swirls need nothing more.
COUNSEL
Bring in advisors
The people who know the terrain weigh in on the situation assessment — their input, your decision.
TEAM
Decide together
A team works every step asynchronously — everyone genuinely heard before anything is scored.
The swirls people bring
■ WORK
■ LIFE
What you walk away with
Two documents, ready to bring others along.
The Decision Story and the Execution Plan — complete, concise, and shareable. Each delivered in Word and PowerPoint.
Decision storyWord · PowerPoint
Meridian Home — The B-Mall Store Decision
"Convert three, lapse five, test one. Foot traffic — not lease cost — turned out to be the factor we couldn't negotiate our way out of."
Where you landed, and why — written to be read by someone who wasn't in the room.
Execution planWord · PowerPoint
Meridian Home — Making It Real
"Priya opens negotiations on the three by 14 Aug. If traffic holds below plan through Q4, the shelved exit comes back on the table."
What happens next — owners, dates, and the option you shelved, kept ready.
What it asks of you
- A stretch of honest, uninterrupted thinking.
- A coach that pushes back on vague or safe answers.
- Your head staying in it — one sitting is best.
What you get back
- A decision you can defend — to your board, your family, or yourself.
- The Decision Story and Execution Plan, written and shareable.
- The people who matter, genuinely heard.
Private, always · your words are never used to train models