A one-week sheet

The kept-decisions scorecard.

One small decision per day, for a week. You ask the question you're afraid of each day, you note what you felt first, what answer arrived, and you mark whether you acted on it.

Trusting yourself comes from seeing the decisions that you acted on, not from waiting to feel ready.

From the field note How to trust yourself: ask the question you are afraid of. New here? Read it first, or just download below.

How to use it

  1. Pick one small decision a day. One that is yours to make and small enough to settle in five minutes: the email you keep not sending, the thing you say yes or no to, the walk you said you would take.
  2. Ask yourself as a yes or no question about that topic. "Do I want to go?" "Am I done with this?" Wait for the answer that comes.
  3. Write what you felt first. If it feels calm, excited or lighter, some version of "good", that feels good for you. If it feels heavy or tight, write that down too. Write the word before you think about it too much. For some people the answer lands as a clear thought instead; that is just as valid if you know it to be true.
  4. The important bit for this exercise is to act on the answer in one small way, then score it: Did you keep it, or not today. Not today is a fine answer: write what you did instead, and you have learnt something.
  5. At the end of the week, look at the page. How many kept? Which feeling did you write down most often? Choose one decision for next week.

It takes a minute a day. Nothing you write on the sheet is saved or sent anywhere, because it lives on paper.

One page, free. No email needed. Seven days, with room for the question, what you felt first, the answer that came, whether you kept it, and what you did instead on a not-today.

Download the PDF

Not sure where to start? Where do you already trust yourself? looks at three areas of your life and gives you one small thing to try.

If you have used the yes log, that one shows what each yes you give is paying you. This scorecard keeps the decisions you acted on, with what you felt first beside each. If the decision keeps going round without landing, Can't make a decision? has a way through, and if a should you never chose is in the way, handing it back takes about five minutes.

If the small ones keep slipping week after week, it often helps to talk it through. I keep a free 45-minute call open, and I can walk you through it.

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